"I walk a lonely street"

[rocknroll]

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?

[EP75]

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 not

[ksimms2]

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 not

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.

[franny]

Here's some details about the song I saw on wikipedia.
I'm curious who this man was...

franny

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."

[rhythmknights]

Here's some details about the song I saw on wikipedia.
I'm curious who this man was...

franny

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.
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..