I’m reading Susan Morrison’s wonderful biography of Lorne Michaels, called “Lorne,” and this little story about Michaels and Paul Simon immediately caught my eye:
Michaels’s few off-hours that summer were spent in the studio where Simon was recording Still Crazy After All These Years, and he added, to his growing trove of showbiz stories, the one about how his friend Paul took the title of his song “Mother and Child Reunion” from the name of a chicken-and-egg dish on a Chinese menu.
An iconic song, titled thanks to the name of a menu item at a Chinese restaurant?
Yeah, great ideas can truly come from anywhere.