A thousand words worth a picture?

[amateriat]

Galfriend and me had a friend over for dinner tonight. (No Hannibal Lecter jokes, please.) A great time was had, and afterward, I put on an album by Fairground Attraction, The First Of a Million Kisses, the only album they managed to make. The cover, as any fan of the group knows, was an Elliot Erwitt photo of a couple caught in mid-buss in a rear-view mirror. The song, IMO, is all but timeless in its imagery, but I can't help but wonder...was it the photo that inspired the words? It does happen, sometimes. And the lyrics (http://www.lyricsandsongs.com/song/71424.html) of this song make me wistful (the fact that galfriend agrees is astonishing to me). Any other bits of evidence to this effect? (not just in this case, of course.)


- Barrett

[MickH]

Loudon Wainwright wrote a song (Half Fist) based on a family snap of his Grandpa. I can't remember the biog details of whether the two of them ever met, but the song expands on the theme that LW sees himself in that photograph.

Wonderful stuff.