So what if George W. once considered dropping Cheney as a running mate? The real news is that Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl was NOT Christie Brinkley.

The song was originally about Elle MacPherson.

So says a new book, The Girl in the Song, which details the back stories of many classic rock lyrics. News stories have sent the book up Amazon sales rankings (now at #386, it’s unlikely to pose any threat to Bush’s Decision Points, however; it’s which is at #1).

The Girl in the Song: The Stories Behind 50 Rock Classics Michael Heatley, Frank Hopkinson Retail Price: $14.95 Paperback: 144 pages Publisher: Chicago Review Press – (2010-10-01) ISBN / EAN: 1569765308 / 9781569765302

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