Today's 'blast from the past' comes from one of my daily readers... Ron Schacht. I know the song very well, but had no idea of the story of how it came to be. Singer/songwriter, Don McLean [of American Pie fame] wrote “Vincent,” also known as “Starry, Starry Night,” in the fall of 1970, while he was working for the Berkshire School District. He was living in the Sedgwick House, a beautiful Federal-style house in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The Sedgwick family included Edie Sedgwick, a colorful figure whom Andy Warhol had filmed in the 1960s. McLean wrote “Vincent” in his apartment full of antiques. The inspiration came to him one morning while he was sitting on the veranda looking at a book about Vincent Van Gogh. As he studied a print of Van Gogh’s painting “Starry Night”... shown above. He realized that a song could be written about the artist through the painting... which is exactly what he proceeded to do, and the result is linked here.
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