[Music] Songs inspired by true events
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- Aug 7, 2003
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pearl
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Great thread BTW!
Yoda
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"Tears in Heaven" is a ballad written by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings about the pain Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son, Conor, who fell from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment of his mother's friend, on March 20, 1991. Clapton, who arrived at the apartment shortly after the accident, was visibly distraught for months afterwards.
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Gentry remarked that the song's message revolved around the "nonchalant way" the family discussed the suicide. She also said that what was thrown off of the bridge was included because it established a relationship between Billie Joe and the daughter, providing "a possible motivation for his suicide the next day".
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American Pie - Don Maclean
For What it’s Worth - Buffalo Springfield
and this cracker by one of the best musical wordsmiths of the 20th Century, he paints such great pictures with his lyrics - based on historical facts and Sir Thomas Moore. Still not idea why he refers to Henry V111 as Henry Plantagenet though
For What it’s Worth - Buffalo Springfield
and this cracker by one of the best musical wordsmiths of the 20th Century, he paints such great pictures with his lyrics - based on historical facts and Sir Thomas Moore. Still not idea why he refers to Henry V111 as Henry Plantagenet though
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Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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Kevin Carter was a photojournalist who took photos of often brutal situations - apartheid at it's most raw, executions, war. He took this photo which won him the pulitzer prize. (Warning: it's a grim photo of an emaciated child, collapsed on the floor with a vulture stalking them)
It won him the pulitzer prize for photography. He took his own life four months after receiving the award.
Kevin Carter was a photojournalist who took photos of often brutal situations - apartheid at it's most raw, executions, war. He took this photo which won him the pulitzer prize. (Warning: it's a grim photo of an emaciated child, collapsed on the floor with a vulture stalking them)
It won him the pulitzer prize for photography. He took his own life four months after receiving the award.
I remember. Tragic. Sometimes you can see too much......