pink floyd's "shine on you crazy diamond" is about syd barrett, no?

xtc - "dear god."

The Dictators - "Jim Gordon Blues"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gordon_(musician)

dabrasha wrote:

jimmy spako wrote:carly simon's lovely "you're so vain" is s'posed to be about mick jaggar, innit?

Warren Beatty

She revealed the true subject to the winner of some raffle. But nobody else.

Mark Hansen wrote:Actually, Lou Reed's album "Magic and Loss" is, from beginning to end, about the death of a close friend of his.

And so is his album with John Cale, Songs For 'Drella, which is about Andy Warhol.

Andy Warhol has songs about him written by Lou (again - "Vicious") and David Bowie ("Andy Warhol")

The Special Guests wrote "Paul Cezanne" ("The father of modern Cubism")

In Memory of Elizabeth Cotten by fIREHOSE.

(Although they spelled it "Cotton" in the song title)

She was once much more famous than now.

cassavetes - fugazi

Pavement - Range Life (Smashing Pumpkins / Stone Temple Pilots)

"Ballad of Jim Jones" by Brian Jonestown Massacre (double bonus points for band name)

Dialed In - 90 Day Men. They mention Cormac McCarthy.

Killdozer has songs about Flannery O' Connor and Irwin Allen all in one record. That's pretty fancy.