Over at http://entertainment.uk.msn.com/music/galleries/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=13794646&GT1=61501&ocid=today
they are listing which famous love songs are written about who. Apart from the fact some of the songs aren’t love songs and some of the songs they admit they don’t know who they are about… it is quite interesting.

One thing they miss is in item 9
“It’s quite…ummm… something to have one of the greatest love songs of all time written about you, but two of them? Pattie Boyd must have been quite…ummm… something in her day”

Surely “Wonderful Tonight” is also about Patti? Giving her 3 major hits to have inspired.

Having played around on the creative side (& more relevantly read a lot of interviews with song writers) it is clear that many songs aren’t from a single inspiration. Something (someone) may inspire the start of a song but other influences then sweep in. The article claims “Sweet Child of Mine” was written in five minutes but ideas within it may have been growing for years and tweaks to it may have occurred for months after.

Just because you slap together the bones of an application in a day doesn’t mean you haven’t been thinking about the algorithm for years and you won’t spend years maintaining and tweaking it…