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Don McLean AP via Knox County Jail
Domestic Violence

American Pie singer Don McLean arrested on domestic violence charge

He posted bail yesterday.

AMERICAN PIE SINGER Don McLean was arrested yesterday on a misdemeanour domestic violence charge in Maine, a jail supervisor said.

McLean was arrested and posted $10,000 (€9,200) bail early yesterday at the Knox County Jail, Corporal Brad Woll said.

The singer-songwriter lives in the town of Camden. A message left for the police chief there by The Associated Press was not immediately returned.

Woll said he did not know if McLean, 70, had a lawyer. Messages seeking comment were left through the singer’s website and two representatives. A phone number listed under his name rang unanswered.

In 2013, McLean was fined $400 for driving his Chrysler too fast through a Maine school zone. McLean’s lawyer argued the school zone warning lights requiring a 15 mph limit were not flashing; police said they were on.

The lawyer who represented McLean during his traffic case did not immediately return a phone message.

McLean’s original manuscript and notes to “American Pie” sold at auction for $1.2 (€1.104) million in April. The 1971 hit was about the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper in a plane crash on 3 February, 1959 — The Day the Music Died.

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