Buy, Buy 'American Pie' Manuscript for $1.5 Million.

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The manuscript for one of the most popular sing-along tunes at bars, “American Pie,” will go on auction this month. The asking price: at least $1 million.

Christie’s in New York will sell 16 pages of Don McLean’s handwritten lyrics and typed drafts for his enigmatic 1971 hit about the American zeitgeist in the later part of the 20th century. The high estimate for the April 7 auction is $1.5 million.

“‘American Pie’ has lasted 45 years now,” McLean, 69, said in an interview. “Relevance is a hard thing to predict.”

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