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

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

 

[BrianB]

My understanding of this is it's referring too the early days of Ja Sound system characters..

 

[SeagullsoverLondon]

Neil Young referencing Elvis' death and prefiguring the death of Kurt Cobain.
Also references Johnny Rotten, who of course is still with us.

 

[BrianB]

Reggae version of Commodores hit ...

 

[A1X]

Listening to Marvin (all night long)

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

 

[WATFORD zero]

Lynyrd Skynyrd referencing Neil Young after they thought his song 'alabama' was pointed at them even though it's the song 'southern man' that's referenced

 

[Stat Brother]

Lynyrd Skynyrd referencing Neil Young after they thought his song 'alabama' was pointed at them even though it's the song 'southern man' that's referenced

Reading about it on NSC would sure be an odd way for Neil Young to find out he's actually dead.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Reading about it on NSC would sure be an odd way for Neil Young to find out he's actually dead.

We're on page 3, I didn't think the OP (or thread title) was that relevant anymore

 

[Stat Brother]

We're on page 3, I didn't think the OP (or thread title) was that relevant anymore

We have rules for a reason.

 

[WATFORD zero]

We have rules for a reason.

Because we're not France ?

 

[Stat Brother]

Because we're not France ?

Would you prefer it if the next music thread was:-

'Favourite track by The Rolling Stones?'

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

All art is quite useless according to Oscar Wilde
Turner 1775 to 1851
Toulouse-Lautrec 1864 to 1901
Andy Warhol 1928 to 1987 RIP
Ernest Hemingway 1899 to 1961
George Orwell, Jimi Hendrix, William Butler Yates, Jack B. Yeats
Richard Redgrave 1804 to 1888
Henry Moore 1896 to 1986
Henry Miller, Sid Vicious only 21
Brian Jones
Otis Redding 1941 to 1967 RIP
All dead, yet still alive
In endless time, endless art
Masters of their arts
Claude Monet 1840 to 1926
Beethoven, Bach, Brahms
Elvis Presley 1935 to '77
Man Ray, Johnny Ray
John Donne 1573 to 1631
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 to '92
Degeneration art, Joan Miro, RIP
Jackson Pollack 1912 to 1956
John Lennon '40 to '80
Henry Lamb, Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, William Shakespeare
Brendan Behan 1923 to 1964
Tennessee Williams 1912 to 1983
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 to 1889
Pissaro, Picasso, Degas RIP
All dead, yet still alive
In endless time, endless art
Joseph Conrad 1857 to 1924
Jack Kerouac 1922 to 1969
Keith Moon 1946 to 1978
D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Mozart
Van Gogh 1853 to 1890
Ian Curtis, Salvador Dali, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse RIP
All dead, yet still alive
In endless time, endless art

 

[WATFORD zero]

Would you prefer it if the next music thread was:-

'Favourite track by The Rolling Stones?'

Sorry. It won't happen again

(Paint it Black)

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

 

[BrianB]

 

[smillie's garden]

First one is a slight cheat being an instrumental, but Mingus wrote it for Lester Young.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Louis Armstrong



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

 

[BrianB]

5 out of the 6 singers referenced have gone ...

 

[Let's Have A Winner!]

Decent tribute to Layne Staley from Alice in Chains...


And another mention of Kurt Cobain on this...