In this song, singer/song writer Don Mclean explores how music begins to die in the late 1950s to the1960s as iconic stars stop performing.
“The quartet practiced in the park” Quartet refers to the band The Beatles and the park is symbol that represents Candlestick Park which is where The Beatles did their last performance in 1966. This relates to the theme because it shows how one of the most influential bands of all time stopped performing in the 1960s.
“The day the music died’ is a metaphor for the day that Buddy Holly died in 1959. Buddy Holly was Don Mclean’s hero at the time and an important musical figure, he marked his death as the day music began to die because he was such an influential figure in the music industry. It can be assumed that he’s talking about Buddy Holly because he once explained in an interview that he learned about his death from the newspapers he delivered when he was a paperboy which was referred to in the song, just before he said that it was the day the music died. …show more content…
Afterwards he stayed hidden away for at least a year. The moss symbolizes Dylan’s inactivity during this period, because moss only grows on things that don’t move which in this case Dylan didn’t make any moves in the industry for a while. Which overall, this line is another reference to music dying around that time, since another “rolling stone” began to become
“The quartet practiced in the park” Quartet refers to the band The Beatles and the park is symbol that represents Candlestick Park which is where The Beatles did their last performance in 1966. This relates to the theme because it shows how one of the most influential bands of all time stopped performing in the 1960s.
“The day the music died’ is a metaphor for the day that Buddy Holly died in 1959. Buddy Holly was Don Mclean’s hero at the time and an important musical figure, he marked his death as the day music began to die because he was such an influential figure in the music industry. It can be assumed that he’s talking about Buddy Holly because he once explained in an interview that he learned about his death from the newspapers he delivered when he was a paperboy which was referred to in the song, just before he said that it was the day the music died. …show more content…
Afterwards he stayed hidden away for at least a year. The moss symbolizes Dylan’s inactivity during this period, because moss only grows on things that don’t move which in this case Dylan didn’t make any moves in the industry for a while. Which overall, this line is another reference to music dying around that time, since another “rolling stone” began to become