Editing Don McLean (section)

==="Vincent"===
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"[[Vincent (Don McLean song)|Vincent]]" is a tribute to the 19th-century Dutch painter [[Vincent van Gogh]]. The inspiration came to McLean one morning while looking at a book about Van Gogh. As he studied a print of Van Gogh's painting ''[[The Starry Night]]'', he realized that a song could be written about the artist through the painting.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://don-mclean.com/2007/04/11/vincent-starry-starry-night/|title=Don McLean: Official Website|website=Don-mclean.com|date=April 11, 2007|access-date=January 5, 2019|archive-date=April 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424030552/https://don-mclean.com/2007/04/11/vincent-starry-starry-night/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The song argues that Van Gogh had a psychiatric illness, as opposed to being insane.<ref name="telegraph.co.uk">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/7264618/Don-McLean-interview-Why-I-had-to-write-Vincent.html|author=Helen Brown|title=Don McLean interview: Why I had to write "Vincent" - Telegraph|date=February 24, 2010|work=Daily Telegraph}}{{Subscription required}}</ref> It reached number 12 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and it proved to be a huge hit worldwide, including reaching number 1 in the UK Singles Chart. [[Mike Mills]] of [[R.E.M.]] said "You can't change a note in that song".<ref name=skydoc/> The song was performed by [[NOFX]] on their album ''45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records'' and appears on the [[Fat Wreck Chords]] compilation ''Survival of the Fattest''. "Vincent" was sung by [[Josh Groban]] on his [[Josh Groban (album)|2001 debut album]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.joshgroban.com/node/78|title=Official Website For Josh Groban|website=Joshgroban.com|date=February 24, 2007|access-date=August 25, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181718/http://www.joshgroban.com/node/78|archive-date=March 3, 2016}}</ref> In 2018, singer-songwriter [[Ellie Goulding]] recorded a new, stripped back, acoustic guitar-driven version of the song.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/ellie-goulding-don-mclean-vincent/|title=uDiscovermusic|website=Udiscovermusic.com|date=February 14, 2018|access-date=January 5, 2019}}</ref>