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

[hart's shirt]

Prince Buster - Madness



Madness - The Prince

 

[lasvegan]

https://youtu.be/6LVjDUeb2_U

Too numerous to mention but a few...

 

[studio150]

 

[The Clamp]

John Wesley Hardin.
Subject of the magnificent song Hardin Wouldn’t Run by Steve Earle.

 

[NooBHA]

Marc Anthony - Gente De Zona Collabaration

Gente De Zona REFER - Marc Anthony (Ex Partner of Jennifer Lopez)

Marc Anthony REFER Gente De Zona

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMp55KH_3wo

Luis Fonsi, / Demi Lovato - Same as above -- Also refer to The Beatles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyHvyGVs42U

 

[smillie's garden]

A bit surprised this has not been put up yet. Lenny Bruce (twice), Lester Bangs, and, of course Leonard Bernstein.


This one's in the title:



"Mr Crowley" by Ozzy Osbourne
"Bohemian Rhapsody" Queen
And, in the time of Kavanaugh, the Sonic Youth song "Youth Against Fascism" has to be mentioned for the lyric "I believe Anita Hill".

 

[darkwolf666]

Actress Francis Farmer, in the song Lobotomy Gets ‘em Home by The Men They Couldn’t Hang.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Rick Derringer ......Rikki don't loose that number > Steely Dan

 

[smillie's garden]

Actress Francis Farmer, in the song Lobotomy Gets ‘em Home by The Men They Couldn’t Hang.

Not to mention "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle" by Nirvana; "Frances Farmer" by Patterson Hood; and "Ugly Little Dreams" by Everything but the Girl!

 

[blue'n'white]

Surprised nobody's put this up yet
https://youtu.be/XSmJH1kxiHQ

 

[smillie's garden]

Kate Bush - King of the Mountain, refers to Elvis Presley.

So does this!

 

[Dave the OAP]

I assume someone has put " looking through gary Gilmore's eyes" ?

 

[darkwolf666]

Not to mention "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle" by Nirvana; "Frances Farmer" by Patterson Hood; and "Ugly Little Dreams" by Everything but the Girl!

Popular girl Francis...

 

[blue'n'white]

https://youtu.be/FrkEDe6Ljqs

Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson

 

[blue'n'white]

https://youtu.be/YwhxeaVfk3s

 

[Hamilton]

John Smeaton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smeaton



"Would never have happened to Smeaton"

 

[studio150]

 

[darkwolf666]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUjXb89F7FU

(Robert) Mugabe - Radio Africa by Latin Quarter

 

[boik]

Blimey, there's so many.
Mark Kozeleks later work is stuffed with refrences.

Livingstone Bramble mentions boxers Livingstone Bramble, Keith Thurman and Ray Boom Boom Mancini PLUS guitarists Jeff Beck, Jonny Marr, Steve Vrai, Jay Farrar, Nels Cline, Derek Trucks and Jimmy Page.

On the same album:

Hey You ******** I'm Still Here: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, David Carradine, Robert Blake and Jonny Carson

 

[sussex_guy2k2]

Michaela Strachan - Scouting for girls

To be "hip", anything by Nicki Minaj, who basically discusses the famous men she's slept with in most songs