The Inspiration Behind These Famous Songs Show That A Great Idea Can Come From Anywhere

Musicians have an image in mind when they create a song and some of those images became some of the most famous songs of all time. They were inspired by real people and there has to be some sort of backstory behind the songs. There’s something or someone that was the special focus that inspired it all.

Sometimes, the song can be about a person they loved, while in other cases, it can be based on fantasies or adoring one of their favorite baseball players. Serious, someone was really obsessed with a certain Yankee great. While some artists were courageous enough to title the name of the song after the muse, others found a way to be quiet about it. These songs were inspired by many different people.

Here’s The Story Of The Hurricane

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Bob Dylan co-wrote “Hurricane” with Jacques Levy in protest against the imprisonment of middleweight boxer, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. Dylan was under every belief that the boxer was arrested as an act of racism, which led to a false trial and a wrongful sentence.

Dylan actually re-recorded the song to adjust some of the lyrics because Columbia Records’ lawyers were concerned about some of the references the song made. The references made were about the two-star witnesses of the murder, Alfred Bello and Arthur Dexter Bradley.