There's 2 other #1 singles that sort of leave it up to the listners to draw their own conclusion.
"You're So Vain" by Carly Simon has had people for over 30 years wondering who she's talking about. Some say Mick Jagger because he sings back-up on it and others say Warren Beatty because he was the popular actor at the time and has a rep for being so. Carly's been quoted as saying,"I'll never tell,that'dspoil the fun".
Then there's the ever-weird,"Angie Baby" by Helen Reddy. A song about a strange teen-age girl,who lives in her own reality. She invites a boy who's been (what I gather from the lyrics)peeping at her. He comes into her room and some bizarre Twilight Zone like thing occours. Her radio is loud and it messes with his head somehow and "as she turns the volume down,he's geeting smaller with the sound...never to be found."
That's the part of the song that no one's been able to figure out. Helen wrote the song with Alan "Undercover Angel" O'Day and they have a vow of secrecy between them about an answer. One person (according to the Billboard Book Of #1 hits) said a few years back that Angie was fantasizing that the D.J. on the radio was the boy watching her and she imagined him to be real. When she turns the sound down on the radio,the D.J. (or boy) fades away. As for the next line about the papers reporting a boy's disappearance,I'm guessing it was a seperate story that the fictional Angie read in the paper. Sounds like a solution but only Helen and Alan know the answer.
Been me,Aurevoir!
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