Don McLean performs American Pie live at BBC in 1972 - Newsnight archives

American Pie - performed at the BBC in 1972. As Don McLean auctions off the original annotated lyric sheet to American Pie, we dug this live performance out of the BBC archive. It came from 'Sounds For Saturday' in 1972.

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