American Pie was written and recorded by the artist Don McLean in 1971. Numerous singers have covered this song since then. Madonna's version, which contains some changes compared to the original lyrics, drew much attention when it was released in 2000. Admired by Don McLean, this marvelous cover was described by him as "a gift from a goddess", and something "mystical and sensual."
In adiition to the clip and its subtitle, you will find a PDF file containing the helpful collocations and phrases in this song.
Ellen's friend Holly shows her an advertisement for a TV show. Are you under 16? Can you sing? Then you can be in Stars of Tomorrow. 'We can enter', says Holly. Ellen agrees to go in the competition, but she's very nervous about it - the others singers are so good, and one of the judges is very nasty! Only one singer can be the winner. Who is it going to be?
Comma Sense: A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation (illustrated)
Are you confounded by commas, addled by apostrophes, or queasy about quotation marks? Do you believe a bracket is just a support for a wall shelf, a dash is something you make for the bathroom, and a colon and semicolon are large and small intestines? If so, language humorists Richard Lederer and John Shore (with the sprightly aid of illustrator Jim McLean), have written the perfect book to help make your written words perfectly precise and punctuationally profound.
Public Health and Politics in the Age of Reform - Cholera, the State and the Royal Navy
David McLean provides a detailed study of the efforts of local and national government to combat cholera in nineteenth-century Britain. Based on a unique cache of documents, McLean's account exposes the struggles between local and national governments as they grappled with the enormity of the problem and the conflict between policies of laissez-faire and state intervention.
