Don McLean
Tue Nov 29 2005 at 4:10:14
Don McLean was born on 1945-10-02 in New Rochelle, NY, the son of Elizabeth and Donald McLean. His father died when he was 15, a few months after their first holiday together. Don was 13 the day the music died, a matter which would never have been mentioned but for the fact that his most famous song is without a doubt American Pie , which is known to a great many people (although the vast majority of people do not know any of his other songs).
He attended Villanova University for a grand total of 4 months, after which he joined Harold Leventhal Management, and played at venues such as Bitter End and Gaslight Café in New York, the Newport Folk Festival, the Cellar Door in Washington, D.C., the Main Point in Philadelphia, the Troubadour and Ash Grove in Los Angeles and over forty colleges throughout New York and New England over the course of 6 years.