Think of some of your favorite songs that mention people's names in the title or lyrics;

do you know if the singers, songwriters, composers, etc., used the names of real people whom they knew, of if they just made up names?
Also, please post the title of the song and its singer as part of your response so we will know to whom you are referring. Thanks. 

My entry unfortunately doesn't mention anyone by name but dIRS reference a person. It is Hall & Oates "Rich Girl" from 1976.  In a later interview, they stated that the girl in question was actually a guy who one of them knew, and who had poor perception of other people based on his inherited wealth and his way of comparing his life to theirs. The duo surmised that the song would be a bigger hit if they changed the gender to female.

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