Simon & Garfunkel's song about the hottest street for music in the Greenwich Village folk scene.

The controversial Kinks came up in North London near Willesden Green; all songwriters write songs about their hometowns eventually.

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.