Dido Reveals Recent Birth of Baby Boy

Dido attends Clive Davis' pre-Grammy awards party.

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Dido has given birth to a baby boy named Stanley. The 40-year-old singer revealed over the weekend that she and husband Rohan Gavin, a writer, had their baby in July. (Initial reports suggested that the baby was born yesterday. Dido herself was born on Christmas day.)

The singer – full name Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong – posted Saturday on Facebook, "I'm ridiculously excited about Stanley's first Christmas this year!" She did not explain whether the couple named the baby in tribute to the 2001 Eminem song "Stan," which featured a sample of the singer's "Thank You." Dido famously appeared in the video to Eminem's song as "Stan"'s pregnant girlfriend. Her most recent studio album, Safe Trip Home, was released in 2008.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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