Don McLean is a GRAMMY Award honoree, a Songwriter Hall of Fame member, and a BBC Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.

His smash hit “American Pie” resides in the Library of Congress National Recording Registry and was named a Top 5 Song of the 20th Century by the Recording Industry of America (RIAA).

A New York native, Don McLean is one of the most revered and respected songwriters in American history.

After paying his dues in the New York club scene in the late 1960s, he went on to score mega-hits like “Vincent (Starry, Starry Night),” “Castles in the Air” and many more.

His catalog of songs has been recorded by Madonna, Garth Brooks, Josh Groban, Drake, “Weird Al” Yankovic, and countless others.

Doctor J. Craig Allen, Hartford Healthcare addiction medicine doctor will talk about South Windsor joins towns in looking to change minimum age of tobacco purchases and states that More and more Connecticut towns are looking into making it illegal for teens to buy cigarettes and other nicotine products. Hartford Healthcare addiction medicine Doctor J. Craig Allen believes it's a positive trend. “One of the things raising the smoking age is it takes the cigarettes and it takes the nicotine products out of the hands of high school seniors,” said Allen. Hartford leaders recently raised the minimum age to buy nicotine products from 18 to 21. Now communities like Bloomfield, Wallingford, and East Hartford are exploring similar moves. He spoke to Brad and Paul about this