“Bye, Bye Miss American Pie …” and other catchy lyrics can still scamper through your head (if you’re old enough) at any given moment, especially if you aren’t carefully monitoring all your thoughts. Made famous by the 1971 Don McLean song American Pie, the singer took over eight minutes to give an abstract autobiographical view of life from the mid-1950s through the end of the 1960s, tying in events from the world as the song morphed along the way. It has stuck in our culture four decades later.
Happy Pi Day! 8 Notable Pi(e)s in History
We honor Pi Day by offering up eight famous pies in just one serving.