When The Rolling Stones released the song Brown Sugar in 1971, there was speculation that it referred to Jagger’s girlfriend and baby-mama Marsha Hunt…or to soul singer Claudia Lennear, whom

he’d also had a dalliance with. In her autobiography, Real Life, Hunt said that Brown Sugar is for sure about her. When a reporter asked her how she felt about

the song, she said: “It doesn’t make me feel any way at all.”

Lyric Sample:

Brown Sugar, how come you taste so good

Just like a young girl should

Brown

Sugar, how come you dance so good

Just like a black girl should

In early 2004, Usher and with Chilli of TLC broke up. Usher said in an interview: “It’s unfortunate when you have to let a situation go because it’s not working.”

But it was later revealed that Chilli—whose real name is Rozonda Ocelean Thomas—in fact broke up with Usher because of cheating. Burn, indeed!

Lyric Sample:

It's gonna burn for me

to say this

But it's coming from my heart

It's been a long time coming

But we done been fell apart

Singer Robin Thicke released this plea as the lead single from the album Paula. The tune was written as an attempt to reconcile with his wife, actress Paula Patton, after

they broke up in February 2014. It didn’t work. Their divorce became final the following year. Adding insult to injury, Get Her Back only made it to #82 on Billboard’s

Hot 100.

Lyric Sample:

I never should have asked you to do anything at all

I should have kissed you longer

I should have held you stronger

And I'll wait

for forever for you to love me again

Backup singer Claudia Lennear and David Bowie had an affair in 1973 which didn’t last, but their friendship did—they kept in touch right up until his death in 2016. Claudia

remembers young Ziggy Stardust as a nice, well-mannered fellow with a great sense of humor. Even Lennear’s mother, Thelma, liked him. Claudia thinks a line from Lady Grinning Soul—“the lady

from another grinning soul”—might have referenced her mother, who also smiled and laughed a lot.

Lyric Sample:

And when the clothes are strewn

don’t be afraid of the room

Touch

the fullness of her breast

Feel the love of her caress

Theresa Gonsalves was one of Michael Jackson’s first girlfriends, they met when they were young teens, and they were in love when he was making the movie The Wiz. In

1984, Star magazine outed Theresa as “The REAL Billie Jean!” She wrote a book about it, called Obsession. Is it true? We can only guess!

Lyric Sample:

People always told

me be careful of what you do

And don't go around breaking young girls' hearts

And mother always told me be careful of who you love

And be careful of

what you do 'cause the lie becomes the truth

Susan Moonsie had an on-and-off relationship with Prince from the early to mid-1980s. She left him when he met Vanity (though she stayed in the girl-group Vanity 6), and His

Royal Badness is said to have written the song When Doves Cry about their relationship. The song was on the seminal Prince and the Revolution: Purple Rain album, and was

a worldwide hit. The ode was his first American #1 single, topping the charts for five weeks. Well, if you gotta break up you might as well get a chart-topping

hit out of it!

Lyric Sample:

Dig if you will the picture

Of you and I engaged in a kiss

The sweat of your body covers me

Can you my

darling

Can you picture this?