article_snippet.sent: Don McLean's was a paperboy when, on February 3, 1959, Don McLean's saw that Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and
article_snippet.sent: Don McLean's recalled.  
article_snippet.sent: Having recorded his first album, "Tapestry," in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, Don McLean's, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the "generation lost in space.
article_snippet.sent: When McLean prods audiences by rhapsodizing "and audiences were singing" everybody spontaneously joins in with the "Bye, Bye" chorus.  
article_snippet.sent: Watching McLean deliver McLean most notable song in concert is to take part in a collective Happening.