Pop quiz, hotshots. Famous people named in songs.

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

The four Kings of EMI
Are sitting stately on the floor
There are birds out on the sidewalk
And a valet at the door

Randy Scouse Git by Micky Dolenz (The Monkees)


This bit is about The Beatles.

 

[Icy Gull]

The four Kings of EMI
Are sitting stately on the floor
There are birds out on the sidewalk
And a valet at the door

Randy Scouse Git by Micky Dolenz (The Monkees)


This bit is about The Beatles.

Hey Hey we're the Monkees

does singing about yourself count

 

[Lady Whistledown]

John Kettley.

Is A Weatherman, apparently.

 

[Trufflehound]

(She's got) Dickie Davies Eyes

The Len Ganley Stance

I Hate Nerys Hughes

99% of Gargoyles Look Like Bob Todd


You can't beat Half Man Half Biscuit when it comes to namedropping...

 

[Lady Whistledown]

And she'll tease you
She'll unease you
All the better just to please you
She's precocious
And she knows just what it
Takes to make a pro blush
She got Greta Garbo Stand off sighs,
she's got Bette Davis eyes

Kim Carnes (she of the voice like Patty & Selma Bouvier off the Simpsons)

 

[Franks Wild Years]

'Andy are you goofin' up Elvis ?'

2 in that one.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

"God save the Queen, she's a facist regime"

 

[scooter1]

Didn't Sting mention Nabakov? in one of his tantic ramblings

 

[The Merry Prankster]

Looking thro' Gary Gilmores' eyes.......

 

[Trufflehound]

Several in here:

Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky?
He got an ice pick
That made his ears burn
Whatever happened to dear old Lenny?
The great Elmyra, and Sancho Panza?
Whatever happened to the heroes?
Whatever happened to the heroes?

Whatever happened to all the heroes?
All the Shakespearoes?
They watched their Rome burn
Whatever happened to the heroes?
Whatever happened to the heroes?

No more heroes any more
No more heroes any more

Whatever happened to all the heroes?
All the Shakespearoes?
They watched their Rome burn
Whatever happened to the heroes?
Whatever happened to the heroes?

No more heroes any more

No more heroes any more

 

[Lady Whistledown]

The Ballad Of Tom Jones- Catatonia


what did I do wrong?
[cerys:] oh you nearly drove me cuckoo
[tommy:] am I really all that bad?
[cerys:] you're worse than Hannibal Lecter, Charlie Manson, Freddy Krueger
[tommy:] why are we still together?
[cerys:] oh I can't leave you till you're dead
[tommy:] you mean till death do us part
[cerys:] I mean like cyanide, strangulation or an axe to your head
[tommy:] it was lucky for us I turned the radio on
[cerys:] they say that music soothes the savage
[tommy:] there was something in that voice that stopped us seeing red
[both]: the two of us would surely have ended up dead
You stopped us from killing each other (tom jones, tom jones)You'll never know but you saved our lives (tom jones, tom jones)

[cerys:] I've never thrown my knickers at you
[tommy:] and I don't come from wales
[tommy:] still haven't solved our problem
[cerys:] you mean we hate each other's guts
[tommy:] still wanna poison your
[cerys:] and I still wanna cut off your
[tommy:] i phoned the marriage guidance
[cerys:] i tied the phone line round your
[tommy:] I'm sick of all this hatred
[cerys:] well that'll be the arsenic making you sick
[tommy:] you were about to drive me over the edge of a cliff

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Didn't Sting mention Nabakov? in one of his tantic ramblings

He did - in 'Don't stand so close to me' - "....just like the old man, in that famous book by Nabakov"

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

I like the Beloved's "Hello"

so welcome to the world, yeah...
all you late-comers, just step onboard
i'm happy, glad you came
so welcome home again!
sometimes i feel we must be going mad
hello peter, hello paul
saints and sinners, welcome all
tommy cannon and bobby ball
hello, hello, hello, hello
consider, if you will
this great big question, unanswered still
oh, can you spot the difference that lies between
the colour blue and the colour green?
sometimes i feel we must be going mad
little richard, little nell
willy wonka and william tell
salman rushdie and kym mazelle
hello, hello, hello, hello...
so welcome to the team
oh, have you worked it out yet?
yeah - the riddle, i mean
what's the answer?
it's plain to see - blue is blue and it always will be
sometimes i feel that the whole world's going mad
mork and mindy, brian hayes
barry humphries and paris grey
little neepsie, chris and do
hello, hello, hello, hello...
billy corkhill, vince hilaire
freddie flintstone, fred astaire
desmond tutu, steve and claire
hello, hello, hello, hello...
charlie parker, charlie brown
leslie crowther, come on down
mary wilson, di and flo
hello, hello, hello, hello...
sir bufton tufton, jean paul sartre
zippy, bungle, jeffrey archer
andre previn and the lso
hello, hello, hello, hello...
hello!

There can't be that many songs that mention a footballer, albeit a palace (and pompey?) player...

 

[Lady Whistledown]

"Leslie Crowther, come on down"

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

(She's got) Dickie Davies Eyes

The Len Ganley Stance

I Hate Nerys Hughes

99% of Gargoyles Look Like Bob Todd


You can't beat Half Man Half Biscuit when it comes to namedropping...

Birkenheads Finest!, apparently turned down a very lucrative US tour because Tranmere had a cup run that year or something..

also:

James Dean; Eagles
Guy works down the Chipshop swears he's Elvis; Kirsty McColl

 

[The Large One]

I look like Robert De Niro
I drive a Mitsubishi Zero

 

[Trufflehound]

May as well post this in the right thread as well...

Einstein was not a handsome fellow
Nobody ever called him Al
He had a long moustache to pull on
It was yellow
I don't believe he ever had a girl

One thing he missed out in his theory
Of time, space and relativity
Is something that makes it very clear he
Was never gonna score like you'n'me

He didn't know about Quark, Strangeness and Charm

I had a dangerous liason
To have been found out would've been a disgrace
We had to rendezvous some mesons
On the corner of an undiscovered place
We got sick of chat chat chatter
And thelook upon everybody's face
But all that does not anti-matter now
We've found ourselves a black hole in space

And we're talking about Quark, Strangeness and Charm

Copernicus had those Renaissance ladies
Crazy about his telescope
And Galileo had a name that made his
Reputation higher than his hopes
Did none of those astronomers discover
While they were staring out into the dark
That what a lady looks for in her lover
Is Charm, Strangeness and Quark.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Noel Coward was a charmer.
As a writer he was brahma.
Velvet jackets and pyjamas,
"the gay divorce" and other dramas.

There ain't half been some clever bastards
(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
There ain't half been some clever bas-tards.

Van Gough did some eyeball pleasers.
He must have been a pencil squeezer.
He didn't do the Mona Lisa,
That was an Italian geezer.

There ain't half been some clever bastards
(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
There ain't half been some clever bas-tards.

Einstein can't be classed as witless.
He claimed atoms were the littlest.
When you did a bit of splitting-em-ness
Frighten everybody shitless

There ain't half been some clever bastards.
Probably got help from their mum
(who had help from her mum).
There ain't half been some clever bastards.
Now that we've had some,
let's hope that there's lots more to come.

There ain't half been some clever bastards
(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
There ain't half been some clever bas-tards.

Okey-dokey!
Oh!
Segovia.
Da-laa la-laa da-daa da-lee
De dump di dump de dump-dump-diddle li-lee.

There ain't half been some clever bastards
(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
There ain't half been some clever bastards
(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
There ain't half been some clever bastards
(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
There ain't half been some clever........
..................................bastards.

 

[seagully]

Mr. Lenin - awaken the boy
Mr. Stalin - bisexual epoch
Kruschev - self love in his mirrors
Brezhnev - married into group sex
Gorbachev - celibate self importance
Yeltsin - failure is his own impotence

revol - revol
revol - revol
lebensraum - kulturkampf - raus - raus - fila - fila

Napoleon - childhood sweethearts
Chamberlain - you see God in you
Trotsky - honeymoon, serenade the naked
Che Guevara - you're all target now
Pol Pot - withdrawn traces, bye bye
Farrakhan - alimony alimony

 

[Statto]

"Where did you go Joe Dammagio(sic)" -mrs robinson. Simon and garfunkle.