NEW YORK, 7 April.- The original manuscript of the song American Pie , Don McLean, today was auctioned by Christie’s for $ 1.2 million, according to the firm .
The value of the award is half hairpin calculation that had the auction house, between 1 and 1.5 million.
The company did not report the identity of the bidder in the auction held today in New York.
The document was annotations and corrections made by the author and was put up for sale by the own Don McLean. The issue was considered by the Association of the Recording Industry of America as the “Song of the Century”.
American Pie , which would then be versioned by other artists such as Madonna , was the anthem of a generation. The document has 16 pages, with 237 lines handwritten and typed 26.
According to McLean, born in 1945, this song, which has been the subject of many debates about the meaning your letter and also gave name to their second album, was “part of a process of awakening, a mystical journey into the past.”
He composed the theme in Pennsylvania and Cold Springs (upstate New York) and was recorded in May 1971, although not first heard until October of that year.
American Pie joins a list of famous songs recouped their manuscripts in the world of auctions, such as Like A Rolling Stone , Bob Dylan , which sold 2 million in June, and Born To Run , Bruce Springsteen , which reached just under $ 200,000.
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