Did George Lucas base his idea of Anakin/Darth Vader on the title character from the classic Jim Croce song, "Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown"?

Just look at the similarities...


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*Leroy Brown was from "the South side of Chicago" which is "the baddest part of town"

*Anakin was from the planet Tattooine, a fairly lawless planet, arguably the bad part of the galaxy...


*Leroy Brown "stands about six foot-four"

*Darth Vader stood 2.02 meters, about six foot four...


*Leroy Brown was "the baddest man in the whole damned town, badder than old King Kong, And meaner than a junkyard dog"

*Darth Vader was the baddest man in the whole damned galaxy, badder than old Emperor Palpatine, and meaner than a pit rancor...


*Leroy Brown: "He got a custom Continental, He got an El Dorado too"

*Darth Vader: He got a custom TIE fighter; He got a Super Star Destroyer too...


*Leroy Brown had "a razor in his shoe"

*Darth Vader had a light saber on his belt...


*Leroy Brown: "All the men just call him 'Sir'"

*Darth Vader: All the men just call him 'Sir'


*Leroy Brown learned a lesson about getting in over his head. "Well, the two men took to fighting, and when they pulled them off the floor, Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle, with a couple of pieces gone"

*Anakin also looked like a "jigsaw puzzle, with a couple of pieces gone" when he was done fighting Obi Wan...


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I rest my case, the characters are far too similar....