[Music] The best songs referencing another, now deceased, musician.

[Simgull]

Robert Forster’s heartbreaking tribute to Grant McLennan.
From Ghost Town

 

[WATFORD zero]

Song written about a Frank Zappa gig

 

[Gabbafella]

Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson both referenced in this.

 

[Trufflehound]

Obviously Joy Division are not ALL dead, but I'm having it...

This one at least narrows it down to the dead one...

 

[WATFORD zero]

And I'm stunned this hasn't been posted yet referencing Count Basie, Glen Miller, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald

 

[Trufflehound]

Another one about Kurt Cobain

 

[marcos3263]

The Beatles - Bach in the USSR ??

 

[pearl]

Mick Harvey sings October Boy about Rowland S. Howard

 

[pearl]

Spiritualized .... Ballad of Richie Lee (from Acetone)

 

[pearl]

Patti Smith .... Frederick (about Fred Sonic Smith)

 

[pearl]

I am Damo Suzuki by the Fall

 

[Worried Man Blues]

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Tchaikovsky. Although really it's a Chuck Berry reference.

 

[pearl]

I am Mark E Smith by FWF

 

[bWize]

Edit: Missed that in between the other vids @Perry Milkins

 

[BN9 BHA]

No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones

 

[BN9 BHA]

 

[BN9 BHA]

 

[studio150]

 

[BN9 BHA]

Delroy Wilson