Don McLean’s 1971 ballad that inspired Roberta Flack’s ‘Killing Me Softly’

A 1971 performance of Don McLean’s “Empty Chairs” at the Troubadour in Los Angeles inspired songwriter Lori Lieberman to create the song that later became Roberta Flack’s hit “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” per faroutmagazine.co.uk. On a winter evening in 1971, 20-year-old Lori Lieberman attended a Don McLean concert at the Troubadour after a… The post Don McLean’s 1971 ballad that inspired…