The Mediterranean island of Formentera covers just 32.1 square miles, but it had a huge impact on James Taylor.

The Kinks with a song about Berkeley Mews, a little street in London.

Bobbie Gentry has written one of the most talked about songs of the century. The mystery endures: what DID Billie Joe throw off the Tallahatchie Bridge?

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• Orville from MsIt has always been clear to Mississippians the reason the young lady lost her appetite was because she was pregnant by Bobbie Joe and that’s why she left town after he committed suicide because of the old gay guy abusing him after he got him drunk. Nothing else to see here. Just shows how families can go off the rails after such an event.

The commonly-repeated story is this Animals' song is about a prison in New Orleans. The truth is much more sinister.

A subtle ode to a very real problem in a place where people once embraced the American Dream.