Elle Macpherson: la musa que inspiró el tema "Uptown Girl" de Billy Joel (Video, Lyrics, Chords)

Elle Macpherson: la musa que inspiró el tema "Uptown Girl" de Billy Joel

Esto fue dado a conocer tras la publicación del libro “La chica de la canción: las verdaderas historias detrás de 50 clásicos del rock”

(Elle-macpherson.com/AP)

(EFE). El cantante neoyorquino Billy Joel no se inspiró en su esposa, la modelo Christie Brinkley, para componer la famosa canción “Uptown Girl”, sino en la también modelo australiana Elle Macpherson, con quien tuvo un romance en los años 80.

Según el recién publicado libro “La chica de la canción: las verdaderas historias detrás de 50 clásicos del rock”, escrito por Michael Heatley y del que hoy se hace eco el diario Daily News, el ganador de seis premios Grammy escribió la más conocida de sus canciones para Macpherson.

El libro revela así que la esposa de Joel, de quien siempre se pensó que había inspirado esa canción tras aparecer en el videoclip de “Uptown Girl” (1983), no fue la “musa” del cantante estadounidense para el famoso tema.

Según relata el autor del libro, el cantante y compositor estadounidense conoció durante unas vacaciones en el Caribe tanto a Macpherson y quien después sería su esposa.

Intro:
D       G       D       Em       A

D
Uptown girl     
G    D
She's been living in her uptown world
Em   A           D
I bet she never had a backstreet guy
G       D
I bet her mama never told her why

Em   A      D
I'm gonna try for an uptown girl   
G    D  
She's been living in her white bread world
Em    A        D
As long as anyone with hot blood can
G       D  
And now she's looking for a downtown man
Em       A
That's what I am

Bb      Gm
And when she knows what
  Cm     F
She wants from her time
Bb      Gm
And when she wakes up
  Cm          F
And makes up her mind

G        Em
She'll see I'm not so tough
Am 
Just because
A      D
I'm in love with an uptown girl

G         D
You know I've seen her in her uptown world
Em       A      D
She's getting tired of her high class toys
G         D
And all her presents from her uptown boys
Em     A
She's got a choice

F G Em Am F G Em A

D
Uptown girl
G      D
You know I can't afford to buy her pearls
Em   A    D
But maybe someday when my ship comes in
G          D
She'll understand what kind of guy I've been
Em       A
And then I'll win



Bb        Gm
And when she's walking
    Cm         F
She's looking so fine
Bb        Gm
And when she's talking
     Cm       F
She'll say that she's mine

G        Em
She'll say I'm not so tough
Am
Just because
A
I'm in love

 D
With an uptown girl
G    D
She's been living in her white bread world
Em    A        D
As long as anyone with hot blood can
G              D
And now she's looking for a downtown man
Em       A
That's what I am

E
Uptown girl
A         E
She's my uptown girl
  F#m         B
You know I'm in love
 E  
With an uptown girl
A   E
My uptown girl
  F#m         B
You know I'm in love
 E
With an uptown girl
A   E 
My uptown girl