ATapestry did not chart in the UK until 1972 after the success of American Pie.
BChain Lightning also peaked at #3 on the RPM Country Albums chart in Canada.
CBotanical Gardens was recorded in 2014-15 but has not yet been released. McLean presented some of the tracks from this album at live concerts prior to release.[1] The title track was digitally released on February 2, 2018, and the album is scheduled to come out on March 23, 2018. [2][3]
AThe original version of "Castles in the Air" was included on the Tapestry album. In February 1971, it was released as the first single from the album and reached #40 on the Billboard Easy Listening / Adult Contemporary chart. After the success of the "American Pie" single, "Castles in the Air" was included as the B-side to its follow-up, "Vincent", and received enough radio airplay to reach the Hot 100 chart as a "flip". McLean's 1981 version of the song, a slower ballad version of the more mid- to up-tempo original, first appeared on his album Believers, and later replaced the original version on some copies of Tapestry.
