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

[El Presidente]

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

(Robert) Mugabe - Radio Africa by Latin Quarter

I saw them live in Manchester about 30 years ago.

 

[El Presidente]

I’m in love with Margaret Thatcher by Burnley’s best, The Notsensibles.

 

[El Presidente]

Beat me to it - b'stard.

ps I like your musical taste a lot

This does of course also namecheck Brian Moore and Michael Moorcock, amongst others.

 

[knocky1]

Jamiroquai's Black Devil Car is all about Gina from the allotment next to mine. Good pickings at my allotment site! She told my wife not me unfortunately.



"...........................
Talking to all those pretty girls
That I meet around the world
Her name was Gina
You should have seen her

She had the greenest eyes
And with those endless thighs
I've put my hands through
Some misdemeanors.............."

 

[Is it PotG?]

Well, he's in the title at least

 

[El Presidente]

Gary Numan's song to his daughter who was stillborn.

 

[pearl]

Disraeli Gears - Cream

 

[The Gem]

Simple Minds - Up on the catwalk.

Mentions:
Deodata, Kim Philby, Michaelangelo, Robert de Niro, Nastassja Kinski and Martin Luther

https://dai.ly/x2au78

 

[DFL JCL]

Jay-z Empire state of Mind

If Jesus payin' Lebron, I'm payin' Dwayne Wade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rDZwRI4SFI

 

[Indurain's Lungs]

Yul Bryner

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

Get's a quick name check in this one too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcFmo_v81IU

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[Indurain's Lungs]

Lee Dorsey and Kojak amongst others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhqyZeUlE8U

 

[studio150]

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[Grombleton]

"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, Reagan and Haig,
Mr. Begin and friend, Mrs. Thatcher, and Paisly,
Mr. Brezhnev and party.
The ghost of McCarthy,
The memories of Nixon."

 

[Hampden Park]

have not trawled through all of the pages but, surely, the Happy birthday to you song covers everybody?

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

Sting - Russians
Sultans of Ping - Where’s Me Jumper? (Karl Marx)
Super Furry Animals - Hangin’ Out With Howard Marks
The Clash - White Man in the Hammersmith Palais
British Sea Power - The Lonely (Liberace)

 

[Tiptoe through the NSC]

A few in song titles not yet featured in the thread...
Sweet Gene Vincent by Ian Dury
The Len Ganley Stance and I Hate Nerys Hughes by Half Man, Half Biscuit
Faron Young by Prefab Sprout (off the album Steve McQueen)
Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz

 

[Jesus Gul]

Gary Tyler - by UB40 in 1980
He was released in 2016 after 41 years inside

 

[TSB]

Any Craig David song.

The Killers - Tranquilize

Scouting for Girls - Elvis isn't dead