Don McLean is pictured in this Jan. 18 photo provided by the Knox County Jail.The Associated Press
A jail supervisor says "American Pie" singer Don McLean has been arrested on a misdemeanour domestic violence charge in Maine.
Cpl. Brad Woll says McLean was arrested and posted $10,000 bail early Monday at the Knox County Jail.
The 70-year-old singer-songwriter lives in Camden, Maine. A message left for the police chief there by The Associated Press was not immediately returned.
Woll says he did not know if McLean had a lawyer. A message seeking comment was left through the singer's website. A phone number listed under his name rang unanswered.
McLean's original manuscript and notes to "American Pie" sold at auction for $1.2-million in April. The 1971 hit was about the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959 – The Day the Music Died.