article_snippet.sent: There has never been a popular song quite like it.
article_snippet.sent: For more than 40 years, it have been an enigma wrapped in an eight-and-a-half minute long rock 'n' roll puzzle.
article_snippet.sent: It's also a paean to education.
article_snippet.sent: It was a strange, wistful opening for a pop song, but then, as the beat kicked in, the lyrics began to portray the innocence of God-fearing, teenage high school in Fifties America.
article_snippet.sent: Listing pop song titles like the Book Of Love and A White Sports Coat and A Pink Carnation, and dances in the gym where the worst that could happen would be that the girl you fancied was dancing with some other guy, the girl you fancied painted a picture of what by 1971 was already a bygone time.
article_snippet.sent: Almost everything is seen through youth icons.
article_snippet.sent: Dancing to rock 'n' roll was never meant to get like this, a man to death seems to be saying.
article_snippet.sent: Vincent, about Vincent Van Gogh's painting The Starry Night, as well as