![]() ![]() “I’m nearing the end of the high-dive,” he says. “I blamed myself.” We’ve been talking about death for half an hour – his father’s and his feelings about his own. So what did he do when his father died? “I cried for two years,” he says. ![]() “I’m feeling it in my lungs,” says the 75-year-old. You can’t see the sun for the acrid smoke. Wildfires are still burning across the state. The singer-songwriter behind the 1971 classic American Pie is speaking from his home in Palm Desert, a town in California where he is now well into what he calls the “desert phase” of his life. I didn’t know what I was going to do without him. A few days later, his father dropped dead right in front of him. “Because it’s going to happen,” the boy replied. “Don’t be ridiculous, Donny, why would you say such a thing?” she said. Distraught, he ran to tell his grandmother. When Don McLean was 15 years old, he had a premonition that his father was going to die. ![]()
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