Don McLean will be appearing on prime time UK television in April (probably the 16th) on The One Show on BBC 1. The same day he will record an interview and two songs for Simon Mayo's Drivetime show (BBC radio 2 5-7pm) to air in early May. Producers would like Don to sing Mountains of Mourne.

During the week of release of "Addicted to Black", the Mark Goodier Morning Show (on Smooth Radio Network) will play an interview and music segment on each day.

He will record interviews for:

Johnnie Walker - Sounds of the Seventies on BBc radio 2

BBC Scotland

BBC Merseyside

BBC in the South

BBC in the East

BBC radio Northern Ireland - Gerry Kelly Show

On April 17th Don will appear live on BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends programme. He will perform a song solo.

On Sunday April 18th Don will appear live on BBC Radio 2 Weekend Wogan - performing two songs - a classic and one from the new album. There is usually streaming video available after the show on their website.

Schedule subject to change and expansion

Here is the resurrected news blog that was a feature of the website between 2001 and 2008. Some stories from the 2008-09 version of the site have been inserted but we have yet to copy comments across. The news blog has some interesting stuff in it, mainly news direct from Don McLean about upcoming events, some of which happened, some of which didn't.

As we look forward to 2010, we see a busy year of international touring ahead for Don. On the concerts page you will find many confirmed dates for his Europe and UK tour in April and May. There are other dates in the pipeline and a possible big surprise for late 2010.

Don McLean will be the subject of two new TV shows in 2010. Japanese TV spent three hours interviewing Don at a recent American concert and we will have details of the availability of the resulting show soon.

In the New Year, Don will be recording a special for Songbook Series IV, sponsored by PRS, in association with the Songwriters' Hall of Fame.

12 months ago we published a 33 page interview featuring questions posed by fans and Don's revealing and personal responses. This is well worth another read as Christmas approaches.

Don McLean’s commentary on Buddy Holly has today been published by CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/01/mclean.buddy.holly/

On Sunday Garth Brooks performed “American Pie� at President-elect Obama’s Inauguration Concert in Washington DC in front of the Lincoln Memorial – Obama sang along!

This is the second time “American Pie� has been sung in this location – Don McLean sang it on New Year’s Eve in 1999.

The Don McLean Christmas Interview is available for download and we hope you enjoying reading it – all 33 pages and all based on questions submitted by Don’s fans. Topics range from Don’s favorite food to a surprising insight into an American Pie lyric.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all involved with Don’s website.

Don McLean will be hosting a radio event called “Maria Elena Holly – my life with Buddy Holly� in February (we don’t know the date yet) at 7pm on BBC radio 2 as part of their fifties series.

Information will be available soon from the BBC website.

Here is an early recording of Don McLean singing “American Pie” unearthed from the archives of WMUC radio, a student run station at the University of Maryland.

The station believes the recording originates from spring 1971, well before the song was released for sale as a single. There are some differences between this WMUC recording and the lyrics and music as we know them from the record.

Don McLean has listened to the recording but doesn’t recall anything about it except to say that, in general, he did “play with the lyrics, just for fun sometimes.”

Listent to the recording here:

Early American Pie recording (mp3)

There are more rare recordings available on our music player found on our partner fan site at http://donmclean.ning.com/

Don McLean is as hot as can be right now and in demand across the globe. He has just returned from dates in South Korea and Taiwan and will be in concert across the USA, Canada and England this summer before embarking on a three week tour of mainland Europe in October. Australia is pencilled in for 2009 as well as an August 2009 return to the UK and Ireland for confirmed festival dates and a probable date at the Royal Albert Hall.

Upcoming shows in 2008:
May 17 - Scottsdale, Arizona (Ctr. for the Performing Arts)
May 24 - Freeport, Maine (free concert)
May 31 - Alto, New Mexico (Spencer Theater)
June 14 -  Virginia Beach (Sandler Center)
July 5 - Interlochen, Michigan (Kresge Auditorium tickets.interlochen.org)
July 6 - Sudbury, Ontario (Bell Park Amphitheatre)
July 13 - Ottawa, ON  (Lebreton Flats Park)
July 19 - Louisville, Kentucky (live with the Louisville Pops Orchestra at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts)
July 25 - Tourhart, Belgium
July 27 - Trowbridge, UK (Trowbridge Festival)
August 30 - LA (The Canyon)
Sept 27 - Rochester, MN  (Mayo Civic Center)
Oct 4 - Temecula, CA

October 2008 - Three wek tour of Europe including Italy, Germany and Scandanavia.