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June 5, 2009updated 23 Aug 2022 6:44pm

VIDEO: Bye bye Miss American Pie: The year the media died. . .

By Peter Kirwan MM blog

This Press Gazette installation of WordPress has never seemed very keen on embedded You Tube video, so I’ll just give you the link and urge you to follow it.

ED update 6pm: Yes it does Peter!

L. McDuff’s Mad Avenue Blues is a reworking of Don McLean’s American Pie — a commemoration of the “year the media died”.

The 19 stanzas tread a fine line between elegy and satire. Which will you find predominant? It depends on your age and outlook. But this is on its way to becoming a runaway hit on You Tube. Go watch it now.

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