Has anyone reported on or ever heard anything about the person who wrote this note before committing suicide? Wonder if his/her family knows it inspired the song that started the rock and roll revolution?
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Has anyone reported on or ever heard anything about the person who wrote this note before committing suicide? Wonder if his/her family knows it inspired the song that started the rock and roll revolution?
All that is known is that the song Heartbreak Hotel was inspired by a newspaper article out of Florida that reported a man who committed suicide at a hotel. I don't know if his family ever knew the song was about them or notQuote:
Originally Posted by rocknroll
Yes I just read this very same thing in the book, "Down At The End Of Lonely Street" which I'm reading now. Pretty good book so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by EP75
Here's some details about the song I saw on wikipedia.
I'm curious who this man was...
franny
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It was written by Thomas Durden, then a steel-guitarist in Smiling Jack Herring and his Swing Billies.
Durden read about a suicide in the Miami Herald in 1955. A well-dressed man had removed all labels from his clothing, destroyed his identity papers and left a note saying: "I walk a lonely street."
i know that song written by Mae Axton and Durden, i ;thought it was Ms. Axton who wrote the song after reading the article. i figured that durden wrote the music.Quote:
Originally Posted by franny
surely the family made the connection after all these years, anyway. maybe they just chose to keep a low profile, that isn't something you want to be reminded of by everyone - your son's suicide, that is..