Friday music quizzery: songs that name check famous people

[Poyetry In Motion]

'Free Nelson Mandela' - cant remember who by tho

 

[Poyetry In Motion]

just wikied it----the special aka

 

[Spun Cuppa]

'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen

'Scaramouche, Scaramouche...'

'Wuthering Heights' by Kate Bush

Heathcliffe and Kathy

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetery gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
While Wilde is on mine

(cemetery gates- the smiths)

 

[Spun Cuppa]

'American Pie' by Don McClean (sp?)

'And Lenin read a book on Marx, as we sang dirges in the dark, the day, the music died...'

 

[Spun Cuppa]

'My Perfect Cousin' by The Undertones

'His mother bought him a synthesizer, got The Human League into advise him...'

 

[Icy Gull]

We didn't start the Fire

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Winner by a country mile

 

[Spun Cuppa]

'White Man in Hammersmith Palais' by The Clash

'If Adolf Hitler, flew in today, they'd send a limousine anywaaaaaaaay...'

Btw Anyone can join in

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

reggie kray- last of the famous international playboys (morrissey)

 

[Titanic]

Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost - Emily's Song, Simon & Garfunkel.

 

[Titanic]

Ossie Ardiles - Ossie's Dream, Chas n Dave.

 

[Gwylan]

'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen

'Scaramouche, Scaramouche...'

'Wuthering Heights' by Kate Bush

Heathcliffe and Kathy

Stretching the definition of famous people there. I don't think fictional characters can count as people.

 

[vegster]

Belle and Sebastian - Photo Jenny

" Whats on the box ?.. Man About The House with Paula Wilcox....."

 

[Acker79]

One Week - Barenaked Ladies

 

[Lady Whistledown]

That Miley Cyrus thing they play incessantly on the radio name checks Britney Spears, & I'm sure Robbie Williams did one called She's Madonna.

 

[CliveWalkerWingWizard]

Frank Zappa - smoke on the water - Deep purple

 

[CliveWalkerWingWizard]

Abraham martin and john - Marvin Gaye - (soon to join them !), oh and U2 Pride

 

[CliveWalkerWingWizard]

And while I'm on the theme of assassinations - all my dreams are dead - Television Personalities (John Lennon)

 

[Frutos]

Midnight in Montgomery - Alan Jackson

I was just going to say that.

It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - REM
Nashville Blues - Cory Morrow
Footsteps Of Our Fathers - Pat Green
Johnny Cash Junkie - Brooks & Dunn
Rollin (The Ballad Of Big & Rich) - Big & Rich
Punk Rock 101 - Bowling For Soup
The Last Ten Years (Superman) - Kenny Rogers
It's My Life - Bon Jovi
You Never Even Called Me By My Name - David Allen Coe

 

[the wanderbus]

John Kettley (Is A Weatherman)

David Ike rides a bike
Johnny Marr plays guitar
Bernard Davey left the navy
John Kettley Is A Weatherman
John Kettley Is A Weatherman A Weatherman A Weatherman
John Kettley Is A Weatherman
& so is Micheal Fish.