And its writer, Don McLean, finally – as headlines blared on CNN.com and in the Washington Post – “revealed” the “last secret” (England’s Daily Mail) behind the ongoing phenomenon of speculating about, analyzing, parsing and deconstructing its text. On April 7, 2015, the working manuscript of the eight-and-a-half minute 1971 song that hit #1 on Janu(and stayed there for four weeks) was sold by its writer for a cool million and then some, fetching “the third highest auction price for an American literary manuscript,” notes its auction house, Christie’s. Caribou Ranch Recording Studio: Where the Stars Gathered.The Beatles’ Decca Audition: An Invaluable Lesson in Failure.Bob Dylan’s ‘Blonde on Blonde’: Twice As Good.When the Chambers Brothers’ ‘Time’ Had Come.Neil Young 1977 ‘Lost’ Album, ‘Chrome Dreams,’ Due.Dire Straits’ ‘Brothers in Arms’: Mark Knopfler Completes the Transition to Stadium-Friendly Band.Alan Arkin Tributes Come From His Co-Stars.

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