Everyday people: the parking wardens, estate agents and more who inspired classic songs
After the death of Joe DePugh, the high school baseball player hymned in Springsteen’s Glory Days, we look at the ordinary inspirations for extraordinary hitsLast week Joe DePugh, a star high school baseball player from Freehold, New Jersey, died aged 75. It made headlines because he was the guy who “could throw that speedball by you / Make you look like a fool, boy” in Bruce Springsteen’s 1984 hit Glory Days – one of the numerous ordinary people that have proved inspirational in pop. Continue reading...
