Many years later I used to sing blissfully along to the radio song “Skyrockets in Sight, Afternoon Delight. The tape was ejected and never seen again. Mastrurbation can be fun … join the holy orgy Kama Sutra everyooooonnnnneeee”īut as our four child crescendo built, my brother’s clear, high, unbroken soprano stopped. Father why do these words sound so nasty. “Sodomy, fellatio, cunnilingus, pederasty. I remember the day we were all squeezed tight in the back and singing along to one of our favourite songs on the tape. My parents only had three cassette tapes in the car - Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens and the soundtrack to the musical 'Hair'. And songs stay with us as a time capsule in our lives especially as odes to the innocence of our childhoods. There should be theories and disagreements over the meanings of songs because that’s the great thing about music, we all hear and feel it differently. I had no idea the ‘air of sweet perfume’ was marijuana nor come close to understanding the references to Mick Jagger, the Rolling Stones, The Beatles and Janis Joplin.īut I did as I got older, and if you’re interested this article has a great go at revealing more.
To me as a child I didn’t care that the 'jester sang for the king and queen’ was Bob Dylan and that the King whose thorny crown was stolen was probably Elvis.
While there’s general agreement about the day the music died being about McLean hearing about the death of Buddy Holly, there have been conspiracy theories galore about other lyrics, beliefs it predicted the future and that it killed off God. There are books, websites and no doubt many university theses that dive deeply into its poetry.īut it’s generally understood to be an ode to the end of simple times of the fifties as America entered a turbulent upheaval of the new era an ode to the end of a sweet and good American age. Its 18 pages even reveal a hidden more optimistic ending that never made the recording. The song has long been memorised, sung, analysed and studied endlessly over the last 44 years. Don McLean has just sold the original manuscript of his lyrics to 'American Pie' for $US1.2 million.
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