[Music] Songs in which real people are namechecked in the title or the lyrics

[PFJ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXCh9OhDiCI

 

[PFJ]

' Cos Lennon's on sale again '

 

[Weststander]

Lyrics mention Horatio Nelson, Lady Hamilton, Mark Anthony, Cleopatra, etc.

 

[Weststander]

 

[marlowe]

Waterloo : Abba
"My my, at Waterloo Napoleon did surrender"

 

[Weststander]

 

[Lincolnshire Seagull]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJIWmc-DMnQ

 

[Dave the OAP]

Rock me Amadeus

 

[Lincolnshire Seagull]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8XQZYIiNgo

 

[marlowe]

The Night Chicago Died : Paper Lace
"When a man named Al Capone tried to make this town his own"

This is the second Paper Lace video I've posted in the last couple of weeks. The last one was Billy Don't be a Hero on the Songs that tell a story thread.

https://youtu.be/yBzvrC6VbKI

 

[marlowe]

Rock me Amadeus

Roll Over Beethoven
"Roll over Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news"

 

[Seagull]

Fugees, Ready Or Not - Nina Simone & Al Capone

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqbsW5hE8v8&list=RDYqbsW5hE8v8&start_radio=1&t=12&t=5

 

[studio150]

 

[studio150]

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dn3qOnkFLA

 

[Hugo Rune]

RHCP

Apache Rose Peacock

Louis Armstrong

https://youtu.be/vMcp-b3IfiQ

A little boy came along
Name of Louis Armstrong
Said that girl who left me silly
She liked the looks of me and my willy

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I think you meant this, the definitive version. Let's hit the f 'kin road!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXrLKplLAhM

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Paddy looks like Joey Barton. Just noticed that. Weird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEzLp4MWeBw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsqIyCP6G5g

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Sometimes its easy to forget just how effing brilliant Prefab Sprout were. This is divine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmiKqRlfX00