Don McLean’s song “American Pie” hit the charts right about the same time I got my driver’s license: November 1971. The day I took my driver’s test and then dropped off my mom back at the house and hit the road, free at last, driving solo (not counting the time I was 14 and took my parents’ car out for a spin while they were at someone’s house for dinner), the song that first came on the radio as I cranked up the old AM was “American Pie.” Can still remember that moment like it was yesterday. It didn’t take long ...