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

[smillie's garden]

Blimey: we can have a sub-thread of songs titled "You Were Right" that reference dead musicians. This Built To Spill one contains lyrics written by deceased artists such as Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison. There are also quotes from still living performers, including Neil Young (at time of writing.)

 

[The Clamp]

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

One of my favourite bands of the 90’s. That album is terrific

 

[BN9 BHA]

Norman Wisdom, Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee.

 

[mr sheen]

Lady Day and John Coltrane - Gil Scott Heron

 

[hart's shirt]

 

[Trufflehound]

 

[pearl]

Bo Diddley is Jesus .... Jesus And Mary Chain

 

[pearl]

Me and David Bowie .... Ian McCulloch

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[Boys 9d]

Two trumpet players who died too young.
Lee Morgan playing a tribute to Clifford Brown.


A vocal version of the previously mentioned Goodbye Pork Pie Hat by Joni Mitchell

 

[BrianB]

Musician = Tap Dancer ?. Let's put this in the pot..
What a song ! .

 

[Stat Brother]

Well aren't we having a lovely time with this wide ranging eclectic music thread.

The next 'Blur v Oasis - who was the best' thread, is gonna be well lush.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohn.

 

[joydivisionovengloves]

The faces of Strummer that fell from your wall, and nothing was left where they hung.

 

[BN9 BHA]

 

[Stat Brother]

As we left 'best' behind a long time ago, this was playing on the wireless coming over.
I bring it to you as our first Whitney Houston

 

[pearl]

Well aren't we having a lovely time with this wide ranging eclectic music thread.

The next 'Blur v Oasis - who was the best' thread, is gonna be well lush.

Yeah, ĹUSH were much better than Burp or Osmosis