Which Song Was Inspired By What Situation?

The songwriters met the original singer of this (soon to be) world famous track and had no idea how to write a song for "the biggest, baddest, saltiest chick" they ever saw, with scars over her face and weighing 350 pounds, until they came up with the idea of a woman throwing a gigolo out of her house...

This song's writer heard somebody say the song's title to a woman at a party and couldn't get the phrase out of his head, until he borrowed some of Bach's Air on a G String to materialise it into one of the 20th century's most played pop songs...

This songwriter had a vivid dream about his mother during a particularly tense period of recording for his band's last album together. Waking up, he penned this momentous hit, with the chorus repeating the words she told him in his dream.

This songwriter had just married the love of his life and bought a house in the country where a certain type of crop growed...

This songwriter bought a novel named 'Triad' in an airport before a longhaul flight. The novel detailed the possession of a Welsh woman named Branwen by the spirit of a witch In 1974 the songwriter wrote a song about the witch...

This song was written when the writer was in the midst of a painful divorce with his fellow band member, although both parties have since denied the song is about the divorce...

This songwriter was asked to write a hit for a massive star and came up with the idea of somebody who's single and pining for that special person for themselves.

This songwriter was composing in the middle of the 1970s obsession with space flight when he came up with the idea for a song about an astronaut.

This songwriter was so inspired as a child by the first film he ever saw that he wrote a song about life's fantasies when he grew up, which became a massive hit for his megastar friend and music-making partner...