Friday music quizzery: songs that name check famous people

[ezzoud]

(Hats off to) Roy Harper - Led Zeppelin

 

[cheeseroll]

Now I'm Here / Queen - "Down in the city just HOOPLE and me"

 

[daveinprague]

Alright Gwylan.. did you dl all that music btw?

 

[Jahooli]

Clarke Kent, James Bond, King Kong and Steve Austin - Billy hunt - The Jam

All 4 fictional but famous

Have we had Einstein ( a go-go ) yet?

 

[Tubby Mondays]

The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths

 

[Tubby Mondays]

Who sung that my name is Norman Bates Im just a normal guy song?

Well that one anyway.

 

[Tubby Mondays]

Can U Dig It - Pop Will Eat Itself

 

[Tubby Mondays]

fight The Power - Public Enemy

John Wayne is big leggy - hazi fantazee (or however you spell it)

 

[Tubby Mondays]

Michael Caine - Madness

 

[fire&skill]

Friedrich Engels - Leon Trotsky - The Archers - Margaret Thatcher

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[Tubby Mondays]

The night hank williams came to town - Johnny Cash
Jesse James - The Pogues

 

[Trufflehound]

Losing My Edge by LCD Soundsystem namechecks just about everyone, namely:

(quick copy 'n' paste job later)

Can
Suicide
Captain Beefheart
Daft Punk
Larry Levan
Beach Boys
The Modern Lovers
Niagra
Yaz (that's Yazoo to us non-Americans)
This Heat
Pere Ubu
Outsiders
Nation of Ulysses
Mars
The Trojans
The Black Dice
Todd Terry
The Germs
Section 25
Althea and Donna
Sexual Harrassment
A-ha
Pere Ubu
Dorothy Ashby
PiL
The Fania All-Stars
The Bar-Kays
The Human League
The Normal
Lou Reed
Scott Walker
The Monks
Joy Division
Lower 48
The Association
Sun-Ra
Scientists
Royal Trux
10cc
Eric B. and Rakim
Index
Basic Channel
Soulsonic Force
Juan Atkins
David Axelrod
The Electric Prunes
Gil Scott Heron
The Slits
Faust
Mantronix
Pharaoh Sanders
The Fire Engines
The Swans
Soft Cell
Sonic Youth

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Candle In The Wind (Marilyn Monroe)

 

[Lady Whistledown]

John Kettley (Is A Weatherman)

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Bob Marley's Buffalo Soldier:

"Fighting on arrival
And fighting Honor Blackman"

(one of my fave gags ever and always soo unappreciated)

 

[Lush]

Songs featuring female tennis players ...

Conchita Martinez - St Etienne

If Lovin You Is Wrong - Faithess
(If I come first well that's the worse scenario,
I push you harder than Sanchez Vicario)

Any others?

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Songs featuring female tennis players ...

Conchita Martinez - St Etienne

If Lovin You Is Wrong - Faithess
(If I come first well that's the worse scenario,
I push you harder than Sanchez Vicario)

Any others?

Skirty Love by Martina Navratalova?

 

[Gwylan]

Alright Gwylan.. did you dl all that music btw?

Yes...I've been checking it out

I sent that 1986 Brixton one to a couple of my friends - I played that one twice. All good stuff

 

[Acker79]

Midnight in Montgomery - Alan Jackson
Jerry Springer - Weird Al Yankovic
Ricky (Arnez) - Weird Al
Saddam Hussein - Weird Al
Weird Al Show - Weird Al

 

[Spun Cuppa]

'As Cool as Kim Deal' by The Dandy Warhols