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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