Notable Ladies Known to Have Inspired Iconic Songs

Let's start with Pattie. She's quite the eye-catcher.

 

Lady Godiva

 

Rosanna Arquette

 

Marilyn Monroe (and - later - Princess Diana) - "Candle in the Wind"

 

Judy Collins

 

Billy Joel - Uptown Girl, about Christie Brinkley

 

"Let's start with Pattie. She's quite the eye-catcher."

She sure was....

 

Bette Davis (eyes)
If my memory serves me well I recall that in Germany Mona Lisa appeared every now and then in "Schlager"-songs.

 

Can’t forget Linda…

 

Jenny Boyd

While we're on the topic of Patty Boyd, her sister also inspired a song.



Song She Inspired: Donavan - "Jennifer Juniper" (1968)
Highest Position on the Billboard Hot 100: 26

Those alluring Boyd girls. Two years before her older sister Pattie became the subject of "Layla," Jenny inspired this much sunnier Donavan tune. Donavan was always a much bigger deal in his native Britain, where "Jennifer Juniper" went to no. 5. Jenny Boyd went on to marry Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) and Ian Wallace (of King Crimson).

 

Can't forget this one, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05xtvT7PLto

 

Prudence Farrow (sister of Mia Farrow)

Another song by a Beatle...

 

Yoko Ono

 

Joni Mitchell



"Our House" written by Graham Nash

 

Inspired by:



Marianne Faithfull.

Bill

 

Joan Baez



"It Ain't Me Babe" by Bob Dylan

 

Chelsea Hotel #2 by Leonard Cohen

 

Janis also inspired Bird Song by the Grateful Dead

 

Virgin Mary

 

I always thought his Yoko obsession was kinda weird but this is such a good song along with "Oh Yoko!".

 

I think this is the best song he wrote about Yoko.

 

Stevie Nicks



"Go Your Own Way" by Fleetwood Mac, written by Lindsey Buckingham

 

Dare I say...

 

Mrs. Brown’s lovely daughter