The story of the inspiration for the album's title, Jeannie Franklyn:
https://counterculturalbooks.fandom.com/wiki/Jeannie_Franklyn
"SONGS FOR A TAILOR is a reference to a young American designer named Jeannie Franklyn (Genie the Tailor), who used to make clothes for Cream. Jeannie was a cousin of Phil Ochs, and was guitarist Richard Thompson's girlfriend from 1968 onwards. She was in the Fairport Convention van after a show when it crashed on a motorway at night. The FC roadie who was driving fell asleep, killing the young drummer of FC and Jeannie. She died on 12 May 1969 in England. Jeannie used to enjoy the way Jack sang the "high" notes."
Her business card:
https://counterculturalbooks.fandom.com/wiki/Jeannie_Franklyn
Songs for a Tailor
On Jack Bruce's official website, there is a description of his reasons to name his first solo album 'Songs for a Tailor' :"SONGS FOR A TAILOR is a reference to a young American designer named Jeannie Franklyn (Genie the Tailor), who used to make clothes for Cream. Jeannie was a cousin of Phil Ochs, and was guitarist Richard Thompson's girlfriend from 1968 onwards. She was in the Fairport Convention van after a show when it crashed on a motorway at night. The FC roadie who was driving fell asleep, killing the young drummer of FC and Jeannie. She died on 12 May 1969 in England. Jeannie used to enjoy the way Jack sang the "high" notes."
Her business card:
Death
Jeannie was dating Richard Thompson of Fairport Convention and was traveling with his band in the UK. On Monday morning, May 12, 1969 they were passengers of a van, which while being driven by the band's road manager, crashed and caused the deaths of Jeannie Franklyn and Martin Lamble, the drummer of the group. According to a newspaper report on the crash, Jeannie was 27 at the time of her death, but there has been no official confirmation about that.
