About the artist: Don McLean (1945) is an American singer-songwriter who had a world-wide success with his album American Pie. Don McLean currently has two songs in my list of about 200 best pop/rock songs of all time.
About the song: Vincent is a track from the 1971 album American Pie, a beautiful ballad about the life and death of Vincent van Gogh. The lyrics may very well be the most poetic ever penned for a rock/pop song, evoking several of van Gogh's masterpieces: "Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue - Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain, weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand". If memory serves me correctly, this song made the number one spot the very first time I made an all-time favourites list back in 1973. Run time 4:01.
