Breakfast at Tiffany's (song) Breakfast at Tiffany's (song) "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is a 1995 song recorded by American alternative rock band Deep Blue Something. Originally appearing on the album "11th Song", it was later re-recorded and released on their album "Home". It was the band's only hit, peaking at number five on the "Billboard" Hot 100. Outside the United States, "Breakfast at Tiffany's" topped the charts in the United Kingdom, and peaked within the top ten of the charts in Australia, Belgium (Flanders), Canada, Germany, Iceland, the Republic of Ireland and Sweden. Todd Pipes said in a "Q" magazine article about the promotion of
Breakfast at Tiffany's (novella) by a Manhattan resident named Bonnie Golightly who claimed that he had based Holly on her. According to the biographer of Joan McCracken, McCracken had a violent dressing room outburst after learning of the wartime death of her brother, while she was appearing in the "Bloomer Girl" (1944). McCracken's biographer suggests that Capote was inspired by this event as a model for a scene in which Holly reacts to her brother's death overseas. McCracken and her husband Jack Dunphy were close friends of Capote, and Dunphy became Capote's life companion after his 1948 divorce from McCracken. In the novella, Holly