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You can thank Farrah Fawcett for ‘Midnight Train to Georgia’

Who would’ve ever guessed the inspiration behind Gladys Knight’s soul-stirring “Midnight Train to Georgia” was ’70s pinup queen Farrah Fawcett? That’s just one of the fascinating song histories revealed in the new book “Anatomy of a Song” by Marc Myers (Grove Press, out now). Based on Myers’ column in the Wall Street Journal, the book...

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21:40 on November 6 2016

You can thank Farrah Fawcett for ‘Midnight Train to Georgia’

New York Post — Who would’ve ever guessed the inspiration behind Gladys Knight’s soul-stirring “Midnight Train to Georgia” was ’70s pinup queen Farrah Fawcett? That’s just on... more info

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