McLean has coasted on one song for over 50 years take away that song and nobody under the age of around 60 knows who the hell he is. Look, I love “American Pie", but one could hardly blame McLean if he was a little jealous of and salty toward Dylan.
The closest that McLean has come to admitting that Dylan was the jester when asked was to say, “I can't tell you, but he'd make a damn good jester, wouldn't he?” The King is Elvis (obviously), dethroned by the young upstart Dylan. Then you have “while the King was looking down/the jester stole his thorny crown". The lyric “the jester sang for the king and queen/in a coat he borrowed from James Dean” would seem to refer to the cover of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, on which Dylan wears a jacket similar to one worn by Dean in Rebel Without a Cause. McLean has never officially confirmed that he was talking about Dylan, but it's pretty obvious he was if you actually listen to the lyrics. It's pretty widely accepted that the “jester" in McLean's song “American Pie" is Dylan, and Bob understandably didn't take kindly to basically being referred to as a clown.
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