As such, it’s long been rumored that the Foo Fighters’ 1995 hit, "I’ll Stick Around," off their self-titled debut album, concerned her. Speaking of Seattle bands: Dave Grohl’s never really bothered hiding his distaste for his former Nirvana bandmate’s widow Courtney Love, calling her some pretty candid names during live shows (although Love has said they’ve recently made up). The truth, though, turned out to be a little less convoluted: Alice in Chains singer Jerry Cantrell wrote the song about his veteran dad, Jerry Sr., whose childhood nickname was Rooster-a reference to his cowlicky hairdo as a kid. The song is also often connected to the 101st Airborne Division, whose troops wore a bald eagle insignia on their shoulder sleeves, resulting in the pejorative "chicken men” epithet being slung at them by the Vietnamese. Some say it’s a reference to the muzzle flash of the M60 machine gun, which supposedly makes an outline similar to a rooster's tail. Over the years, plenty have opined on the backstory behind Alice in Chains’ 1992 grunge hit “Rooster”-a song written in the first person as an American soldier fighting in the Vietnam War-and especially about the identity of the Rooster himself. That song's kind of about -that's how it feels to me anyway.” 8. “I'd got letters out and I was thinking about him.
Many, many artists have written songs about gone-too-soon singer/songwriter Jeff Buckley-a list that includes PJ Harvey, Lana Del Rey, Coldplay, and Rufus Wainwright-but the one that got the most play was possibly Massive Attack’s 1998 single, “Teardrop.” The lyrics were written and sung by Buckley’s close friend Elizabeth Fraser, who fronted ethereal rock band Cocteau Twins and who was working on the piece on the day she heard Buckley had drowned in the Mississippi River. Gie Knaeps via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 4.0 Varoufakis, however, when asked to weigh in, only coquettishly replied that his wife was “the only Greek student of sculpture at St.
Martins College.” Cocker hasn’t yet confirmed or denied it, nor has Stratou. Stratou certainly fits the description of someone who “came from Greece and had a thirst for knowledge” and “studied sculpture at St. Jarvis Cocker, frontman of English rock band Pulp, has always been vague about who he’s been singing to in 1995’s “Common People.” After decades of speculation, it’s recently been conjectured that the subject of his hit is Greek artist Danae Stratou, married to Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister and current controversial radical-left politician (both pictured above). Here are some lesser-known examples of songs about celebrities, proving that while Taylor Swift may be one of the more prolific artists in the category, she doesn’t have the market totally cornered. Makes sense-you write what you know! But when the medium is music, the subject isn't always obvious. If there’s one thing famous people like to write about, it’s other famous people.
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