“Starry, starry night/Paint your palette blue and grey/Look out on a summer’s day/With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.” Those words came to Don McLean as he looked at Vincent Van Gogh’s 1889 ...

In 1971, a song called, “American Pie,” stormed up the U.S. record charts to No. 1, and stayed there for four full weeks. That’s pretty good for any hit, but what’s unusual is that the tune runs eight ...

“Starry, starry night/Paint your palette blue and grey/Look out on a summer’s day/With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.” Those words came to Don McLean as he looked at Vincent Van Gogh’s 1889 ...