The 10 year old girl on the street corner and the kid being shot in Central Park - are they references to real people and events? Anyone have any news stories or names or anything? I'm wondering if the kid shot dead is the same person Wyclef is singing about is "dialo."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Itu-vykAZE

The shooting is purportedly based on an actual incident.
Don't think that's ever been verified, though.

Wyclef Jean's song 'Diallo' is about the death of Amadou Diallo in 1999.

Bruce Springsteen also wrote a song about it - 'American Skin (41 Shots)'.

Happens every day.

From Wikipedia:




"Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)"

Single by Rolling Stones
from the album Goats Head Soup
Released      December 1973
Format      7"
Recorded      November-December 1972, May-June, 1973
Genre      Rock, Funk
Length      3:27
Label      Rolling Stones
Writer(s)      Jagger/Richards
Producer      Jimmy Miller

"Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" is the fourth track on The Rolling Stones' 1973 album Goats Head Soup.
Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)"'s lyrics relate two stories: one based on the true story of New York City police shooting a boy because they mistook him for a bank robber,[citation needed] and the second of a ten-year-old girl who dies in an alley of a drug overdose.
After telling the story of the police shooting the wrong person, Jagger sings,
“      You heartbreaker, with your forty-four, I want to tear your world apart.      ”
The .44 magnum cartridge had been recently made famous by the 1971 movie Dirty Harry, in which Harry Callahan uses "the most powerful handgun in the world" to cleanse the streets of crime. The lyrics complement the music, which Rolling Stone magazine described as "urban R&B", due to its funk influence and prominent clavinet part (played by Billy Preston). [1]
"Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" was first recorded in November and December 1972 before being re-recorded early the following summer. Jim Price arranged the song's horns and played sax, while Chuck Findley took over for Price on trumpet. Mick Taylor played the "wah-wah" guitar; Richards played bass; Billy Preston played the keyboards.[1] Released as the second single from Goats Head Soup in the U.S. only (after the #1 hit "Angie"), it reached number fifteen in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100 and has remained a staple on AOR and classic rock radio stations.
The song also appeared on the American version of the compilation album Rewind (1971-1984).
[edit]References

^ McPherson, Ian. "Track Talk: Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)". Retrieved 2008-03-17.
[edit]External links


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doo_Doo_Doo_Doo_Doo_(Heartbreaker)

Thanks dudes!

Interesting about the Springsteen song. Isn't it awesome how everything in music is connected? And it can all be traced back to one man!

Long story short....it was almost true for me. When I was a 7 year old kid in The Bronx lighting off firecrackers in the alley....two cops pointed their guns at me and said "Raise your hands"

If that was today, a slick lawyer would make sure I was a millionaire.

bullshit

lotsajizz wrote on Dec 9^th, 2009 at 8:12pm:

bullshit

Was that directed at me?