Flying without scissors, Swift’s chart records and the King Canute theory of inflation

Planet Business: Toy guns, tides and technology that does not work

Patrisha McLean: My ‘deeply controlling’ ex-husband Don McLean

Her 29-year marriage to the singer Don McLean ended after an incident in their home in 2016

Don McLean: ‘American Pie is a biographical song’

The singer talks about family pain, his childhood, and being in the 'desert phase' of his life

Revising French – Frank McNally on one of Ireland’s greatest songwriters, who died 100 years ago next week

Goodbye summer: Wish I hadn't complained about those long sweaty nights

Niamh Towey: It felt like the summers Bruce Springsteen and Don McLean wrote about

Beck, The xx, Demi Lovato and Game of Thrones: the week’s best rock and pop

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Lib Dems leader Tim Farron praises Tony Blair successes

In apparent bid to woo Labour voters, Farron says former PM achieved important rights

American Pie singer Don McLean on domestic violence charge

Entertainer arrested in Maine posts $10,000 bail at Knox County Jail

Don McLean’s ‘American Pie’ lyrics sell for $1.2 million

Original 16-page draft manuscript of American Pie sold in one minute

Sale of Don McLean’s ‘American Pie’ lyrics could reach $1.5m

Hand-written manuscript will ‘divulge everything there is to divulge’ about 1971 song