Can you name the songs about specific people? by AmeliaL

Can you name the songs about specific people?

created by AmeliaL

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Some songs are tributes to very specific people. Look at the recording artist and the song's title, and tell me who the songs are about!
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Artist	Who Its About	Song Title
Rufus Wainwright		Memphis Skyline
Elton John		Empty Garden
David Bowie		Lady Stardust
David Bowie		The Jean Genie
Red Hot Chili Peppers		My Lovely Man
Marc Cohn		Walking in Memphis
Barry Manilow		I Write the Songs
Elton John		Candle in the Wind

Artist	Who Its About	Song Title
Elton John		Candle in the Wind (1997)
Don McLean		American Pie
Lynyrd Skynyrd		Freebird
Derek and the Dominoes		Layla
Toto		Rosanna
Jimmy Vaughan, Bonnie Raitt, Various		Six Strings Down
The Clash		The Right Profile
David Bowie		Andy Warhol

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Who is the Song About? Quiz

by AmeliaL

Created Mar 1, 2011 in Music
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	AmeliaL:	Mar 1st, 2011 at 05:49 GMT		1 point
	Thanks for playing! If you have any other songs that you think should be added, I'm open for suggestions :)

	Trotbot:	Mar 1st, 2011 at 11:57 GMT		1 point
	Nice idea, but I would question some attributions. Free Bird was often dedicated to Duane Allman, but it was not about him. The original idea came from a throw away line my a girlfriend (can't immediately remember whose). Brian Wilson was involved with the initial recording of I write the songs, but it was not about him.

	AmeliaL:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 00:23 GMT		1 point
	While I agree to some extent(there's always going to be questions about what was about who), Manilow has said that he was thinking of Wilson as he wrote the song, and Freebird is at least commonly accepted as being about Duane Allman. If there are other people that any of these songs are rumored to be about, though, I would definitely add them as alternatives :)

	sharpdale:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 01:27 GMT		2 points
	@AmeliaL - You may want to adjust your last comment a bit. Barry Manilow could not have been thinking about Brian Wilson as he wrote the song "I Write the Songs"--Barry Manilow did not write the song. It was composed by a man named Bruce Johnston. (No word on who he might have been thinking about at the time, apart from possibly himself.)

	trusting365:	Jan 15th, 2013 at 06:26 GMT		1 point
	Please add an apostrophe to "who it's about".