Don McLean: City Hall, Newcastle
Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 27 May 1978
ALTHOUGH HE has become generally underrated because 'American Pie' and 'Vincent' in their different ways were songs impossible to top, to me Don McLean has continued to be the major musical satirist/commentator to emerge in the Seventies.
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