The song is an abstract story surrounding 'The Day the Music Died' - the 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper (Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr.), as well as the pilot, Roger Peterson. A re-release in 1991 did not chart in the U.S., but reached number 12 in the UK. ' American Pie' is a folk rock song by singer-songwriter Don McLean.Recorded and released on the American Pie album in 1971, the single was a number-one U.S.
