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Songs about famous people
Please help - I am trying to compile a list of songs about famous people. E.g:-
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
Thanks
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
Thanks
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Your so vain - Carly Simon (Mick Jagger or Warren Beatty -depends who you believe)
Abraham, Martin and John - by Marvin Gaye (Lincoln, Luther King and Kennedy respectively)
Jackie Wilson Says - Dexys Midnight Runners (about the famous darts player)
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes (or Dickie Davis Eyes by Half man Half Biscuit)
Best and Marsh by New order (George and Rodney)
Abraham, Martin and John - by Marvin Gaye (Lincoln, Luther King and Kennedy respectively)
Jackie Wilson Says - Dexys Midnight Runners (about the famous darts player)
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes (or Dickie Davis Eyes by Half man Half Biscuit)
Best and Marsh by New order (George and Rodney)
Campaigner by Neil Young (about Richard Nixon)
Ambulance Blues by Neil Young (Richard Nixon Watergate era)
MLK by U2 (about Martin Luther King)
Van Diemens Land by U2 (about John Boyle Reilly, Irish poet and political activist deported to Tasmania 19th century. Later famed in America).
Return of the Grievous Angel by Gram Parsons (full verse about Elvis Presley habits, while still alive)
Hey Sandy by Christy Moore (about Sandra Schwartz, one of four students killed on Kent State University Campus 1970 by American National Guard)
He Looks Like Spencer Tracy Now by Deacon Blue (a phrase by writer Roger Rosenblatt in Time magazine interviewing a pilot on 40th anniversary of his take-off from Tinian Island in one of the planes which accompanied the Enola Gay on its route to drop the atom bomb)
Ballad of Ira Hayes by Johnny Cash (about one of the soldiers who raised the American flag at Iwo Jima in World War Two, one of the most iconic photographs in the entire 20th century. Ira Hayes was an Indian who died from alcoholism).
Warren Gamaliel Harding by Al Stewart (about American President of same name, post World War One).
Biko by Peter Gabriel (about Stephen Biko, killed by South African police in detention September 1977, Port Elizabeth. Sparked uprising).
Nixon Meets the Godfather by David Frye (Great American comedian caught mood of a potential Richard Nixon/Marlon Brando encounter. :I gotta get out of the Watergate mess fast;" "So, do you want justice?;" "Eh, not necessarily, my fellow Italian-American..." Super.
Johnny Thompson Song - Assorted Artists (About Glasgow Celtic goalie died after injury in match with Rangers September 1931).
Ambulance Blues by Neil Young (Richard Nixon Watergate era)
MLK by U2 (about Martin Luther King)
Van Diemens Land by U2 (about John Boyle Reilly, Irish poet and political activist deported to Tasmania 19th century. Later famed in America).
Return of the Grievous Angel by Gram Parsons (full verse about Elvis Presley habits, while still alive)
Hey Sandy by Christy Moore (about Sandra Schwartz, one of four students killed on Kent State University Campus 1970 by American National Guard)
He Looks Like Spencer Tracy Now by Deacon Blue (a phrase by writer Roger Rosenblatt in Time magazine interviewing a pilot on 40th anniversary of his take-off from Tinian Island in one of the planes which accompanied the Enola Gay on its route to drop the atom bomb)
Ballad of Ira Hayes by Johnny Cash (about one of the soldiers who raised the American flag at Iwo Jima in World War Two, one of the most iconic photographs in the entire 20th century. Ira Hayes was an Indian who died from alcoholism).
Warren Gamaliel Harding by Al Stewart (about American President of same name, post World War One).
Biko by Peter Gabriel (about Stephen Biko, killed by South African police in detention September 1977, Port Elizabeth. Sparked uprising).
Nixon Meets the Godfather by David Frye (Great American comedian caught mood of a potential Richard Nixon/Marlon Brando encounter. :I gotta get out of the Watergate mess fast;" "So, do you want justice?;" "Eh, not necessarily, my fellow Italian-American..." Super.
Johnny Thompson Song - Assorted Artists (About Glasgow Celtic goalie died after injury in match with Rangers September 1931).
Victor Jara by Arlo Guthrie, or Dick Gaughan, or Christy Moore (about famous Chile song writer murdered in the Santaigo football stadium in September 1973 after Pinochet's military coup)
Blood Upon The Grass - contemporary Scottish song about same incident and the decision of the Scottish football team to play a friendly match there afterwards
Promise The Wind by John Stewart (ex Kingston Trio) (about former US Presidet Jimmy Carter)
The Last Campaign by John Stewart (about Senator Robert Kennedy's final campaign 1968 for US Presidency)
Blood Upon The Grass - contemporary Scottish song about same incident and the decision of the Scottish football team to play a friendly match there afterwards
Promise The Wind by John Stewart (ex Kingston Trio) (about former US Presidet Jimmy Carter)
The Last Campaign by John Stewart (about Senator Robert Kennedy's final campaign 1968 for US Presidency)
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