# Historical and or factual inaccuracies in song lyrics

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 22, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-and-or-factual-inaccuracies-in-song-lyrics/446473 "2008-04-22T23:21:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-and-or-factual-inaccuracies-in-song-lyrics/446473/81 "2008-04-27T10:03:39Z")

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[QUOTE=Lucky 13]  
Paper Lace, _The Night Chicago Died_:  
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I had to check Wikipedia to refresh my memory, but this always cracked me up:

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> Many of the discrepancies can be attributed to the fact that the songwriters do not hail from Chicago, but from England, and admitted in interviews - most notably on Beat Club shortly after the song’s release - that they had never even been to the city itself, and that their sole knowledge of the city and that period of its history had been based on gangster films. **When Paper Lace sent this song to Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley, he was not impressed, shunning the fictionalized story, saying that the group was nuts.**

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