Bands/Artists who have songs about other Bands/Artists

[HantsSeagull]

The Smiths - William It was really nothing

 

[Spun Cuppa]

There's a line in The Dandy Warhols song Welcome to the Monkey House that goes, 'When Michael Jackson dies, we're covering Blackbird...', so when he actually did die, they put on their website, rather tongue in cheek, that they had no foresight of the event

 

[BN9 BHA]

Sham 69- Hersham Boys.

Wrong thread!

 

[Superphil]

Mike Monroe - Motorheading for a Fall

 

[vegster]

Steely Dan - Rikky Don't Lose That Number. Mistakenly thought of as a love song, this was written about Rick Derringer. Derringer had been working with the duo and they had been trying to get him to join full time but he was not sure because he had other commitments including possibly working with Eric Clapton, hence the reference in the song of " we can go off driving on Slow Hand row"

 

[Lincolnshire Seagull]

Beatles - Ballad of John and Yoko ?

 

[Superphil]

Ramones - Sheena is a Punk Rocker, all about Sheena Easton






Oops, no, that was Shirehorses - Sheena Easton, Punk Rocker

 

[wadhurstseagull]

Jilted John - Jilted John

This is exactly what happens when there are two threads on a similar but different subject. Unless you count Gordon, in which case, as you were.

 

[Garage_Doors]

Toy Dolls - Jimmy Saville

In fact they did it repeatedly.

Yul Brinner was a Skinhead.

Deirdre is slag.

 

[TheBlueAndWhiteStrips]

The Libertines The Boy Who Looked At Johnny is allegedly about Razorlights Johnny Borrell.

Razorlight Don't Go Back To Dalton is allegedly about Pete Doherty

Thunder Road Bruce Springsteen mentions Roy Orbison

 

[Cosmic Joker]

CSS - Let's Make Love and Listen Death From Above

 

[El Presidente]

John Lennon- How can you sleep?

 

[PFJ]

John Lennon- How can you sleep?

How do you sleep , Lennon's bitter feud against McCartney .He even posed with a picture of a pig lampooning McCartney's Ram album cover.

 

[PFJ]

Can I play with Madness - Iron Maiden.
Nothing to do with Madness of course , but I longed for Madness to bring out a song called 'Can I play with Iron Maiden',

 

[PFJ]

King Rocker -Generation X

Clever song about a boxing match between the Beatles and Elvis and who was the greatest .

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

A Flock Of Seagulls named themselves from a line in a Stranglers song

Toiler On The Sea

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd is dedicated to and the lyrics were adapted before it was recorded, apparently, to be about Duane Allman, the leader and founder of the Allman Brothers band, who was killed in a motorcycle accident on October 1971. Duane is my avatar - left - and probably my all-time guitar hero, alongside Django Reinhardt and Ry Cooder.

 

[jemwillett]

My brothers back at home with his Beatles and his Stones

All the young dudes...

who needs tv, when I've got T-Rex

 

[The Modfather]

The Wombats - Lets dance to Joy Division

 

[The Modfather]

Primal Scream - Motorhead