Musician Don McLean is arrested on a domestic violence charge in Maine. [Photo: gb.cri.cn]

A US jail supervisor is saying that singer-songwriter Don McLean has been arrested on a domestic violence charge in Maine.

It's said 70-year-old McLean was arrested, and posted 10-thousand US dollars bail early Monday.

Details on what led to the arrest remain unclear.

McLean and his wife Patrisha, a photographer, live in Camden, a town on the Maine coast.

He is scheduled to tour Australia in March.

McLean is best-known for his eight minute classic "American Pie" released in 1971.

Its six verses reflected U.S. social upheavals in the 1960s and early 1970s.

"American Pie" was named a Song of the Century by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts.

McLean's original working manuscript was auctioned for 1.2 million US dollars last year.