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Songs about famous people
He's misstra know it all - Richard Nixon - Stevie Wonder
Cars and Girls -Bruce springsteen - Prefab Sprout
tramp the dirt down - Margaret Thatcher - Elvis Costello
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.It's intresting that you mentioned Al Stewart, Starmack, apart from Warren Harding there's alot more.
Nostradamus, Josephine Baker, Ernst Rohm and Adolf Hitler (the night of the long knives), Merlin, Lord Richard Grenville, Napoleon, Loius Armstrong, Sir Thomas More, Charlotte Corday (Marat's assasin), Edward Lear and plenty of name dropping in songs like "Manuscript", "the Palace of Versailles" and "Post World War II Blues".
I recently heard a song by Mark Knopfler about Ray Kroc called "Boom, like that" all to do with the history of McDonald's.
Robert De Niro's Waiting - Bananarama
Geno - Dexy's
American Pie - Don Maclean (about Buddy Holly)
Matchstalk Men - Brian and Michael (about Lowry)
Maggie's Farm - Specials
Margaret on the Guillotine - Morrissey
Cemetry Gates - The Smiths (loads of people!)
I Feel Like Buddy Holly - Alvin Stardust
Strictly speaking, Quizmonkey, 'Michael Caine' was not about the man himself, it was the first name that came into the head of a terrorist suspect under interrogation. But Mr Caine did lend his voice to the record.
'Nelson Mandela' - The Special AKA
'Stand Down Margaret' - The Beat (Mrs Thatcher, of course)
Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton... about Conor Clapton, his son who died.
Rasputin by Boney M... about Rasputin from Siberia.. Russia's greatest love machine by all accounts.. who was murdered.
Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs by Brian and Michael... About the artist Lowry
Id rather jack, Reynolds girls
Golden oldies, rolling stones, we dont want them back
Id rather jack!!! Than fleetwood Mac!!
haha, crap I know but there's more haha.
Also there's a song by mylo out in the last year that is just a dance track with a man saying dozens of eighties famous people to it!!
ooh also Vogue, Madonna!!!!!! Obvious one that!!
Some more:-
Roseanna by Toto, about the actress Roseanna Arquette.
My Love by Paul McCartney & Wings, about Linda McCartney.
Rock Me Amadeus by Falco, about Mozart.
Uptown Girl by Billy Joel, about model Christie Brinkley.
Oh Carol by Neil Sedaka, about Carole King.
Nightshift by the Commodores, about Jackie Wilson & Marvin Gaye.
Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus.
Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin), by Scritti Politti.
James Dean by The Eagles.
Marlon Brando by Elton John.
River by Natalie Merchant, about the late actor River Phoenix.
Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks, about Terence Stamp & Julie Christie.
Diamonds & Rust by Joan Baez, about Bob Dylan.
Walking In Memphis by Marc Cohn, about Elvis.
Angie by the Rolling Stones, about Angela Bowie.
Killing Me Softly With His Song by Roberta Flack, about Don McLean.
Graceland by Paul Simon, about Elvis.
Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton, about Patti Boyd.
Something by the Beatles, about Patti Boyd.
Layla by Derek & the Dominoes, about Patti Boyd.