I-95 Drive Home Mystery Artist [VIDEO]

Tonight’s featured artists wrote a song about a misunderstood homeless man based on a photo that his wife had actually taken of an actual man in London. Can you guess the artist or song??

We’ll start with our misunderstood character. He is described as a dirty, pedophilic, homeless man. This, however, is merely the view of average passerby. The character is gives a description of is the backstory of Aqualung. And here is why in Ian Andersen’s mind at least, by viewing Aqualung as a disgusting pedophile, we can excuse ourselves with not helping him. In verse two and three, the truth of Aqualung is told. He is simply an old man, who is lonely, sick and in pain, whom nobody cares for. In the recording you can "deep sea diver sounds", referencing a real aqualung device.

In an interview with singer Ian Anderson in the September 1999 Guitar World, he said: "The idea came about from a photograph my wife at the time took of a tramp in London. I had feelings of guilt about the homeless, as well as fear and insecurity with people like that who seem a little scary. And I suppose all of that was combined with a slightly romanticized picture of the person who is homeless but yet a free spirit, who either won't or can't join in society's prescribed formats.

So from that photograph and those sentiments, I began writing the words to "Aqualung". I can remember sitting in a hotel room in L.A., working out the chord structure for the verses. It's quite a tortured tangle of chords, but it was meant to really drag you here and there and then set you down into the more gentle acoustic section of the song."

Tonight's featured song 'Aqualung'