Songs that mention famous people.

[Bigbad]

Anyone help with songs that mention famous people who were married to other famous people?
So far I've got "Owe it all to Frank Sinatra" Crowded House; "Madam Onassis got nothing on you" Rod Stewart and "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?" Simon & Garfunkel.
Would prefer any suggestions to be pre 1990.
Thanks.

[sophie_1003]

Do they need to be in the title? We Didn't Start The Fire has loads of famous people in it.

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Jackie Wilson Said
When Smokey (Robinson) Sings

[Davethedog]

Not sure if this fits - But "We didn't start the fire" by Billy Joel mentions a lot of very famous people.

[sandyRoe]

Does candle in the wind mention Marilyn Munroe?

[Bigbad]

No, they don't need to be in the title, and I keep meaning to play that song - thanks for the reminder!

[Davethedog]

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"

Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

CHORUS
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it


Josef Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Zhou Enlai, Bridge On The River Kwai

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California Baseball,
Starkweather homicide, Children of Thalidomide

Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land,
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock

Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz

Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on...

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire...

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Bette Davis Eyes- Kim Carnes

[Bigbad]

So who were Jackie Wilson & Smokey Robinson married to?

[B00]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhh, sorry, i got carried away with just the title of your post, didn't read the rest of it-oopsie!

[dotty.]

'I'm Much too young to feel this damn old' by Garth mentions Chris Le Doux
Gone too Soon by Niel Diamond mentions loads of famous people.

[jackthehat]

Waterloo Sunset - Terry (Terence Stamp) and Julie (Julie Christie)

[jackthehat]

Bah!
They weren't married to each other, but were an item...

[mickrog]

Candle in the Wind

[ichkeria]

"Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton is about Patti Boyd, married to Clapton and George Harrison (though not simultaneously).
She's not mentioned in the song, though, unfortunately

[Bigbad]

Thank you Davethedog. Saves me from digging out my Billy Joel CD. Not too many married to other famous (enough) people amongst that lot, though.

[joko]

madonnaa vogue, shania twain, dont impress me, dexys midnight runners jakie wilson

[sandyRoe]

Was Eva Braun famous? If she was then Colonel Bogey.

[ichkeria]

I'm not sure I understand the question really.
Do you mean lyrics that explicitly reference the fact that the famous person was married to someone famous, or simply mention famous people married to someone famous:
if the latter, then the list is enormous - "God Save the Queen" by the Sex Pistols for example :-)