The fickle girls of rock
By Jeff Kouba
The Beach Boys sang “Wendy, Wendy what went wrong oh, so wrong/We went together for so long/I never thought a guy could cry/Til you made it with another guy”
Who did she run off with? Apparently Bruce Springsteen in Born to Run, “I wanna die with you, Wendy, on the streets tonight/In an everlasting kiss”
Jefferson Starship sang “Sarah, Sarah/storms are brewing in your eyes/Sarah, Sarah/no time is a good time for goodbyes”
Why is Sarah leaving? Apparently she ran off with Thin Lizzy… “When you came in my life/You changed my world/My Sarah”
Steely Dan sang “It’s like a dream come true/So won’t you smile for the camera/I know they’re gonna love it, Peg”
Who did Peg leave to chase fame in the spotlight? Apparently Buddy Holly… “If you knew Peggy Sue/Then you’d know why I feel blue/Without Peggy, my Peggy Sue”
And the Beatles might’ve secretly expressed their love for her with their song P.S. I Love You
Billy Joel sang “Laura/Calls me In the middle of the night/Passes on her Painful information”
What was the painful information? Apparently she told Christopher Cross she didn’t have long to live… “Think of Laura but laugh don’t cry/I know she’d want it that way”
Bruce Springsteen eventually ditched Wendy for Terry on the Backstreets… “One soft infested summer Me and Terry became friends/ Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in” Apparently Terry left the Everly Brothers to run off with Bruce… “Goodbye to Helen Heartbreak, Rosa Rain/ Susie Sorrow, Paula Pain/Terry Teardrops, Betty Blue”
Speaking of a Terry, both Bob Geldof (Love Like a Rocket) and Jackson Browne (Waterloo Sunset) were stalking a couple named Terry and Julie… Geldof: “Terry still meets Julie every Friday night Down at waterloo underground/Nothing much has changed Except now they’re both afraid” Browne: “Terry meets Julie, Waterloo Station Every Friday night/I am so lazy, don’t want to wander I stay at home at night”
July 12th, 2022 at 1:19 pm
None of these had the unique combination of nuance and passion, though, like the Jimmy Castor Bunch’s Bertha Butt Boogie (and it’s lyrical shout-out to Bubba Gump).
July 12th, 2022 at 3:46 pm
Josie came home to Steely Dan after she let the Outfield use her love tonight.
July 12th, 2022 at 4:21 pm
Wait! According to Hall & Oates, Sarah was off on a turnaround to the holy land Las Vegas!
July 12th, 2022 at 5:28 pm
Let’s not even get started about Black Betty.
July 12th, 2022 at 6:37 pm
C’mon UMMP…just one blamb-a-lamm?
July 12th, 2022 at 6:38 pm
Sally rides with Wilson Pickett, can’t dance with Lou Reed, and sneaks through the alley with Robert Palmer. Quite busy, actually.
July 12th, 2022 at 10:46 pm
But it’s Julia acting peculiar, Mr. D.
July 13th, 2022 at 2:48 pm
If it would have been 2022 instead of 1972, Sylvia Avery probably would have been a domestic violence mortality statistic.
July 13th, 2022 at 8:54 pm
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July 14th, 2022 at 9:49 am
Bill C – once Dr. Hook got past her mother, that is.