{"id":4984,"date":"2015-02-17T06:09:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T06:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/02\/17\/don-mclean-is-selling-the-manuscript-of-american-pie\/"},"modified":"2015-02-17T06:09:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T06:09:45","slug":"don-mclean-is-selling-the-manuscript-of-american-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/02\/17\/don-mclean-is-selling-the-manuscript-of-american-pie\/","title":{"rendered":"Don McLean is selling the manuscript of &#8216;American Pie&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/b\/b0\/Don_McLean_1976.JPG\/220px-Don_McLean_1976.JPG\" border=\"0\" width=\"219\" height=\"286\" \/><br \/>Christie&#8217;s announced Friday that singer-songwriter Don McLean is  selling his manuscript and notes to &#8220;American Pie,&#8221; the wistful anthem  that asked, &#8220;Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?&#8221;  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>The auction house says McLean is selling 16 pages that include the original working manuscript and typed drafts of the song.<\/p>\n<p>Christie&#8217;s is estimating that &#8220;American Pie&#8221; will sell for $1 million to $1.5 million when it is auctioned April 7 in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-minute-long &#8220;American Pie&#8221; was released in 1971. It was a No. 1 U.S. hit for four weeks in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The day the music died&#8221; refers to the Feb. 3, 1959, deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper in a plane crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christie&#8217;s announced Friday that singer-songwriter Don McLean is selling his manuscript and notes to &#8220;American&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}