Don McLean performs American Pie live at BBC in 1972 - Newsnight archives

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A live 1972 performance of 'American Pie' by Don McLean, a landmark moment in music history.

Linked by 48 independent sites, 5 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including ebay.com.au, arcpublishing.com, americansongwriter.com, aktualne.cz, iheartradio.ca.

Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including American Pie (song).