Joel began to date McPherson, and his original name for the song was "Uptown Girls." After he switched to Brinkley, though, the sole focus turned to the woman he later married.
Joel was on vacation in the Caribbean when he came upon three models staying in the same hotel: Macpherson, Brinkley and a young, pre-fame Whitney Houston. Here's a look at some of the book's reveals, along with some more surprises:īilly Joel's "Uptown Girl" The Inspirer: Elle Macpherson The story: While everyone assumes this song was written about Joel's wife Christie Brinkley (especially since she appears in the video), another model lit the first spark. A new book, "The Girl in the Song" by Michael Heatley and Frank Hopkinson, chronicles 50 stories behind these hidden inspirers. While Swift regularly pens thinly veiled lyrics addressing, and often skewering, names like Taylor Lautner and Joe Jonas, she stands behind a long line of stars who've made the charts by writing songs about their true muses. Taylor Swift isn't the first pop star to pluck people from real life to inspire a song.
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