Who was Billie Jean?
During an interview in Thailand, Jackson was asked about the inspiration behind this song. He replied: "There is a girl named Billie Jean, but it's not about that Billie Jean. Billie Jean is kind of anonymous. It represents a lot of girls. They used to call them groupies in the '60s. They would hang around backstage doors, and any band that would come to town they would have a relationship with, and I think I wrote this out of experience with my brothers when I was little. There were a lot of Billie Jeans out there. Every girl claimed that their son was related to one of my brothers."
TEARS ON HEAVEN . ERIC CLAPTON
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The Doors - The End (Apocalypse Now)
This song was famously used in the movie Apocalypse Now over scenes from the Vietnam War. Director Francis Ford Coppola had it remixed to include the line "F--k the mother."
"The End" is death, although the song also deals with Jim Morrison's parents - it contains Oedipal themes of loving the mother and killing the father. Morrison was always vague as to the meaning, explaining: "It could be almost anything you want it to be."
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HURRICANE CARTER (BOB DYLAN)
“The Hurricane” is Bob Dylan’s song highlighting the conviction of former middleweight fighter Rubin Carter, nicknamed “The Hurricane,” and John Artis, his friend. Both were wrongly imprisoned for nearly twenty years on the account of triple murder. Later proved innocent, the case highlighted both the inadequacies in the American justice system (there were many flaws in the prosecutions' case) and the racism that existed in America even after the March on Washington, as the Civil Rights Era had nearly come to a close. The real killers have never been brought to justice.
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