Today would have been my parents 40th wedding anniversary. You know, if they hadn’t been divorced at 20 years or my Dad was still alive.

As much as a mistake as their marriage may have been, it did produce me and my brother so couldn’t have been all bad, my parents had a decent song. None of your soppy stuff, my parents had American Pie by Don McLean.

I very much grew up with this song on long car journeys the music my parents agreed on was Don McLean, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks and Rod Stewart. There may have been others but that was the basic set list. So I know all the words and love this song. No marriage is a complete and total disaster!