A is for... American Pie
Recorded for her latest movie "The Next Best Thing", in which she stars with Rupert Everett, American Pie is a fairly straight version of the song immortalised by Don McLean in the seventies. Song-writer McLean's version reached no 1 in the USA in January 1972. It peaked at no 2 in Britain a few weeks later. McLean has said that even he can't explain the lyrics but there is little doubt that the day the music died was February 3, 1959 when McLean's teenage idol Buddy Holly was killed.
Recorded for her latest movie "The Next Best Thing", in which she stars with Rupert Everett, American Pie is a fairly straight version of the song immortalised by Don McLean in the seventies. Song-writer McLean's version reached no 1 in the USA in January 1972. It peaked at no 2 in Britain a few weeks later. McLean has said that even he can't explain the lyrics but there is little doubt that the day the music died was February 3, 1959 when McLean's teenage idol Buddy Holly was killed.