Virginia Plain Plain" from one of his own paintings, featuring an image of cigarette packaging - "Virginia Plain" is a variety of cigarette tobacco. Ferry later said in an interview: It was a watercolor or a painting on paper. It was just like a surreal drawing of a giant cigarette packet, with a pin-up girl on it. I liked that phrase Virginia Plain…so it later became the title of the first single I put out with Roxy Music – with a slightly imponderable lyric... The name "Robert E. Lee" refers to music industry lawyer Robert Lee, practising at London law firm Harbottle
On a Plain been Kurt Cobain's 50th birthday, the Phonographic Performance Limited released a list of the top twenty most played Nirvana songs on the TV and radio in the UK in which "On a Plain" was ranked at number ten. On a Plain "On a Plain" is a song by American rock band, Nirvana, written by vocalist and guitarist, Kurt Cobain. It is the 11th track on their second album, "Nevermind", released in September, 1991. The song was released as a promo-only single in 1992. "On a Plain" was written in 1990. It was first recorded in the studio on January 1,