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One thing I enjoy about music, songs especially, is that the lyrics or story of the song can often be inspired by something the artist experienced or heard of, and it gave them momentum to create something memorable. I love to hear the background of famous songs, from the mundane, from ELO's inspiration for Mr. Blue Sky:quote:In a BBC Radio interview, Lynne talked about writing "Mr. Blue Sky" after locking himself away in a Swiss chalet and attempting to write ELO's follow-up to A New World Record: to my favorite, Fastball's The Way: quote:Fastball frontman Tony Scalzo came up with the idea for the song after reading articles which described the June 1997 disappearance of an elderly married couple, Lela and Raymond Howard from Salado, Texas, who left home to attend the Pioneer Day festival at nearby Temple, Texas, despite Lela's Alzheimer's and Raymond recently recovering from brain surgery. They were discovered two weeks later, dead, at the bottom of a ravine near Hot Springs, Arkansas, hundreds of miles off their intended route. I always, even as a kid listening to it on the bus to school, thought the song was a melancholy tale of people avoiding their problems and denying reality, but I find it so fascinating that the singer read an article about two people literally not in their right minds somehow making their way hundreds of miles away from their destination before tragically dying, and turning it into one of my favorite pop songs from the 90's. I'd love to learn of more interesting origins to famous songs if you've got'em.
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