Don McLean-American Pie (1971)

"American Pie" was Don Mclean's second album, almost no one had heard of the existence of the first one, except for the 34 record companies that rejected it.
With the publication of this album, McLean would take center stage as an international pop-rock figure and was even the inspirer of the work "Killing Me Softly With his Song", which the authors wrote with their music in mind.
This album is famous above all for containing the song of the same title that was written in tribute to Buddy Holly, the mythical rocker who died on February 3, 1959, in it McLean narrates that tragic date and in the words of the song itself "the day that the music died. "
This album was for seven weeks at number one and almost a year on the best-seller lists.
McLean came from the world of folk before recording his own albums and had collaborated with Pete Seeger among others, in addition to being a very active member in ecological and environmental awareness campaigns.
In addition to the mythical song on this album, other very remarkable ones appeared such as "Vincent", dedicated to Van Gogh or "Babylon", inspired by his old folk years.
After this work McLean would not have more relevant successes, but nevertheless an album as perfect as this was enough to go on to the annals of rock history.