Turn it up! They're singin' about me!

Famous songs that refer to actual people:

"You're So Vain" - Carly Simon - Carly has kept the identity of who she was singing about a secret for aver 30 years. Some think it refers to Mick Jagger, some think it's about her James Taylor or Warren Beatty. Last August, Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC Sports and NBC Olympics, put in a winning bid of $50,000 in a charity auction to have Ms. Simon personally reveal the name of the mystery man. He has sworn he will never reveal Carly's secret, but did give a clue. He has the letter "e" in his name. Ooh, gee, thanks Dick. So out of the 3 billion men on the planet, I can rule out... what, John Goodman and Gary Burghoff? Great! Only 2,999,999,998 to go.

"Smoke On The Water" - Deep Purple - They were going to start recording their new album in a concert hall called the Casino in Montreaux, Switzerland. Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention were playing the last show of the season before the hall would close down for the winter, and the members of Deep Purple, invited by Zappa, were in the audience. An unidentified someone in the audience fired off a flare gun in the hall, striking the ceiling and touching off a fire. Everyone escaped with their lives, but the entire building and all of Zappa's equipment burned in the blaze. I sometimes how Mister Flare Gun feels when he hears the song, knowing he is immortalized in rock as "some stupid with a flare gun"

"You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" - Bachman Turner Overdrive - Randy Bachman wrote the lyrics on the fly and sang the stuttering vocals (B-B-B-Baby, you just ain't seen n-n-nothin' yet), but he did it as a joke, and only intended it to be heard by one person: his brother Gary, who suffered from a speech impediment. Not believing it was very good, he tried to talk their producer at Mercury Records from putting it on their 1974 "Not Fragile" album.

"I Don't Like Mondays" - Boomtown Rats - In 1979, Boomtown Rat's singer Bob Geldof and keyboardist Johnnie Fingers were doing a radio show in the US when news came over the telex that a 16-year-old Brenda Spencer from San Diego had shot teachers and children at the elementary school across the street from her house. During the seven-hour standoff outside her house, a reporter phoned in and asked her what was her motive. She said simply, "I don't like Mondays".

Brenda is currently serving 25-to-life. She was denied parole at a recent hearing.