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McLean, 70, was arrested in Camden, on the Maine coast, and
booked into the Knox County Jail at about 3:30 a.m. He was
released about an hour later after posting $10,000 bail,
Corporal Bradley Woll said.
Woll said McLean was charged with domestic violence, a Class D
misdemeanor. He had no details on what led to the arrest.
"It's not every day that we get a celebrity, that's for sure,"
Woll said.
McLean and his wife Patrisha, a photographer, live in Camden.
McLean is scheduled to tour Australia in March.
His eight-minute hit "American Pie" was released in 1971 and
reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts. Its six verses reflect
U.S. social upheavals in the 1960s and early 1970s.
"American Pie" was named a Song of the Century by the Recording
Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for
the Arts. McLean's original working manuscript was auctioned for
$1.2 million last year.
(Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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