 Two songs, “Don’t Cuss the Fiddle” and “The Year 2003 Minus 25,” would appear on Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson’s 1978 duet album, the latter foreshadowing Kristofferson’s increasing political awareness and activism in the coming decade.“Rocket to Superstardom” was inspired by the practice of some aspiring singers who would sing at the security cameras outside Kristofferson’s Malibu home in the forlorn hope that he or Coolidge would be sold enough to record their songs.