Bye bye Miss American Pie: Don McLean's manuscript fetches $1.2m

Singer-songwriter’s lyric drafts for the song American Pie sold to a mystery buyer at New York auctionDon McLean’s famously enigmatic masterpiece American Pie is about “life becoming less idyllic”, the singer-songwriter revealed after the song’s original manuscript sold for $1.2m (£800,000) at Christie’s in New York on Tuesday.The 18-page manuscript, which McLean, 69, admitted he had decided to sell on a whim, included handwritten notes and deletions from the 1971 hit that was