Music still makes Don McLean smile

As Don McLean gets ready for an Irish tour, he tells Lorraine Wylie why he’s still making records almost 50 years after his debut album.

IT’S been almost fifty years since Don McLean penned American Pie, the song that launched his career. A string of hits, including ‘Vincent’, an homage to the artist Vincent Van Gogh, helped cement his reputation as a gifted song writer.