Don McLean Celebrates 50th Anniversary of 'American Pie'

AARP asked the singer-songwriter: "Do you agree with the consensus that the song points to an end of innocence in America?"

McLean responded: 

"The Depression and World War II ended innocence pretty good. We always had apocalyptic events and there was always a sense of trouble. The institutions began failing in the ’60s because people didn’t believe in th…