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Buddy Holly joined the long and uncomfortable tradition of writing a song for another man’s wife with this ode to a former classmate at Texas' Lubbock High. The song had a working title of “Cindy Lou” after Holly’s niece, but was changed after drummer Jerry Allison went through a breakup with his girlfriend, Peggy Sue Gerron. The two later married. —Jeff Royer (Photo: file photo, AP Images)
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Neil Diamond, “S...After years of silence, Diamond finally revealed the true inspiration behind his 1969 smash in 2007. The muse? Caroline Kennedy, the then-12-year-old daughter of JFK. He later sang the song to her at her 50th birthday celebration. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Jason Kempin, Getty Images)
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Eric Clapton, “L...The most memorable part of this Derek and the Dominos hit may not be the indelible opening guitar riff, but the fact that it was written by Clapton about his unrequited love for woman named Pattie Boyd – who also just happened to be the wife of Beatles guitarist George Harrison. His trick apparently worked. Three years after the song was released, Boyd divorced Harrison, and she and Clapton were married a few years later. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Chris Jackson, Getty Images)
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Buddy Holly, “Pe...Buddy Holly joined the long and uncomfortable tradition of writing a song for another man’s wife with this ode to a former classmate at Texas' Lubbock High. The song had a working title of “Cindy Lou” after Holly’s niece, but was changed after drummer Jerry Allison went through a breakup with his girlfriend, Peggy Sue Gerron. The two later married. —Jeff Royer (Photo: file photo, AP Images)
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Taylor Swift, “D...It’s become a well-known fact over the past few years that if you break Taylor Swift’s heart, you’re more or less guaranteed to become the subject of a song on her next album. The honor in this particular case goes to John Mayer, who briefly dated the young starlet in 2009, just in time to make the deadline for her 2010 album. "It was wrong / Don't you think nineteen's too young / To be played by your dark, twisted games / When I loved you so.” —Jeff Royer (Photo: Rick Diamond, Getty Images)
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Elton John, “Can...Before it was repurposed as a tribute to Princess Diana, this song was an ode to Marilyn Monroe, who died 11 years before it was written. The song’s first line, “Goodbye, Norma Jeane,” is a reference to Monroe’s real name. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Teaukura Moetaua, Getty Images)
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Plain White T’s,...The pop-punk band’s whimsical acoustic breakthrough was inspired by a real-life Delilah - Delilah DiCrescenzo, a Columbia University steeplechase runner lead singer Tom Higginson had a crush on. By the time he finished writing “Hey There Delilah,” his muse was long-gone, but thanks to the song’s popularity, she had plenty of chances to hear it. “When I’m at the gym, it’s playing; when I’m at the pool, it’s playing,” DiCrescenzo told USA Today. “Part of me wants to scream at the top of my lungs that it’s about me. Another part of me wants to cower and say it’s not.” —Jeff Royer (Photo: Michael Loccisano, Getty Images)
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The Knack, “My S...This one-hit wonder was penned by Knack frontman Doug Fieger after he met a lovely 16-year-old girl named Sharona Alperin. Apparently deciding “loving from afar” wasn’t his thing, Fieger struck up a relationship with the underage beauty that ended up lasting four years. Alperin, who was also featured on the single’s cover art, is now a successful real estate agent in L.A. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Capitol Records)
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Cee Lo Green, “F...Also known by its original R-rated title “F*** You,” Green’s hit song sounds like a spirited kiss-off to an ex-girlfriend and her new beau. In reality, however, the vitriol was meant for the studio heads at Green’s record label. “I did [the song]… to be spiteful toward the [record] label. Because it had taken about three years to do 'The Lady Killer,' and I just felt that after recording almost 70 songs I could not please them." —Jeff Royer (Photo: Mike Coppola, Getty Images)
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Justin Timberlak...Also in the “unconfirmed, but we all know it’s true” category is the common belief that this smooth Timberlake kiss-off track is aimed at his old flame Britney Spears. Not only did it surface shortly after the power-couple’s breakup, but its tragic storyline played out nearly identically to their real-life relationship. Any ambiguity was erased when the debut of the song’s video, featuring a Britney look-alike with references to Spears’ tattoo and more. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Frazer Harrison, Getty Images)
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Alanis Morissett...Alanis has never gone on record about the subject of this uncomfortably angry song … but her ex-boyfriend has. Dave Coulier, who dated Alanis shortly before she wrote the scorcher, claimed in a 2008 interview with the Calgary Herald to be the subject of her copious amounts of vitriol. It’s not Coulier’s first brush with fame; ‘80s sitcom fans may remember him as Uncle Joey from “Full House.” —Jeff Royer (Photo: Jason Merritt, Getty Images)
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Toto, “Rosanna”This 1983 Grammy winner was written about actress Rosanna Arquette, the then-lover of Toto keyboardist Steve Porcaro. Awkwardly, Porcaro neither wrote nor sang the song. It was penned by the band’s other keyboardist, David Paich, in an apparent ode to his bandmate’s relationship. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Sean Gallup, Getty Images)
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The Beatles, “He...Sir Paul wrote this classic for bandmate John Lennon’s son in 1968. Lennon was in the midst of a nasty split with wife Cynthia Powell at the time, and 5-year-old Julian was having a hard time coping. Enter McCartney with these words of wisdom: "And any time you feel the pain, hey, Jude, refrain / Don't carry the world upon your shoulders / Well, don't you know that it's a fool who plays it cool / By making his world a little colder." —Jeff Royer (Photo: Central Press, Hulton Archives, Getty Images)
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Sheryl Crow, “My...While she’s never copped to it, the timing of Crow’s 1998 hit points directly to the singer’s ill-fated fling with rock elder statesman Eric Clapton. "Your friends are sorry for me / They watch you pretend to adore me / But I'm no fool to this game," she sings. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Jason Merritt, Getty Images)
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Crosby, Stills &...This 1969 classic was written by Stephen Stills for his longtime girlfriend and fellow folkie Judy Collins. The couple’s on-again, off-again relationship provided plenty of fodder for Stills over the years. When asked about it by Rolling Stone in 1971, Stills replied, "Well, there are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. I've had my share of success and failure at all three." —Jeff Royer (Photo: Keystone, Hulton Archive, Getty Images)
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Bob Dylan, “Sara...Any artist can write a song for a lover. But only Bob Dylan can get away with writing a song about that song. First, he penned "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" for his first wife, Sara Lownes. He followed that up with “Sara,” which includes the lines, "Stayin' up for days in the Chelsea Hotel / Writin' 'Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands' for you." No ambiguity there. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Kevin Winter, Getty Images)
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Guns N’ Roses, “...After overhearing his bandmates noodling around with Slash’s lead guitar line during practice, GNR frontman grabbed a pen and scribbled a love poem to his then-girlfriend Erin Everly. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Hulton Archive, Getty Images)
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Starship, “Sara”This No. 1 hit was sung by Starship’s Mickey Thomas and named for his wife at the time. Oddly enough, he didn’t write the song. Both “Sara” and the No. 1 hit that preceded it, “We Built This City,” were written by producer Peter Wolf. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Hulton Archive, Getty Images)
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OutKast, “Ms. Ja...This breakthrough hip-hop song was written by Andre 3000 as an open letter to the mother of Erykah Badu, his former girlfriend and the mother of his son Seven, after he and Badu went through a painful breakup. (“Never meant to make your daughter cry / I apologize a trillion times.”) —Jeff Royer (Photo: Scott Gries, Getty Images)
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Coldplay, “Moses...This is one of a few songs singer Chris Martin has dedicated to his famous wife Gwyneth Paltrow. (“Fix You” is also rumored to have been written for her.) “Moses” gets special distinction since it later served as the namesake for the couple’s second child. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Dave J Hogan, Getty Images)
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The Beatles, "Lu...It’s odd that such a surreal song would have such a matter-of-fact inspiration. As it turns out, this spacey Lennon tune was named after a little girl named Lucy O’Donnell who shared a nursery school class with Julian Lennon. One day in 1966, the younger Lennon came home toting a drawing of his classmate describing her as "in the sky with diamonds." That was apparently all the fodder the elder Lennon needed. —Jeff Royer (Photo: BIPS, Hulton Archive, Getty Images)
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