American Pie -Don McLean

[Harguitay]

The interpretations are many and speculative, but I like this site:

http://www.rareexception.com/Garden/Pie.php

From the obvious theme of the airplane "American Pie" that crashed the lives of Buddy Holly and Richie Valens to the intimations at the civil rights era to the references to artists of prominence throughout the 60s and 70s this is one of the most important rock and roll collages ever written.