Kathie -N- Vinnie

It began with that album!! In 1971, the biggest song of the year was "American Pie" by Don McClean, an 8+ minute epic tale of "the day the music died."  The title track to the album,  an album which lived in the fiber of our house and was a favorite of my brothers and sisters.   Being the youngest of 7 children, at the ripe old age of 7 (in 1971),  my siblings forged the path of my music tastes, and that "American Pie" album was a classic. The second big single off the album was "Vincent" - an epic love song for the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh and his most famous painting, "Starry, Starry Night".  The lyrics told the sad tale of the artist, a man who I would later learn as I read about his life, was one of fragile mind and heart, who became one of the world's most talked about victims of suicide. His artistic talents were massive and his timeless paintings are now engrained in so many forms of multimedia and are more iconic now t