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Songs About Famous People
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 6:10 pm
by enframed_Archive
pink floyd's "shine on you crazy diamond" is about syd barrett, no?
xtc - "dear god."
Songs About Famous People
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 6:40 pm
by Colonel Panic_Archive
Songs About Famous People
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:14 pm
by burun_Archive
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.
Songs About Famous People
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:19 pm
by burun_Archive
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")
Songs About Famous People
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:26 pm
by matthias beebe_Archive
In Memory of Elizabeth Cotten by fIREHOSE.
(Although they spelled it "Cotton" in the song title)
She was once much more famous than now.
Songs About Famous People
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:29 pm
by owen_Archive
cassavetes - fugazi
Songs About Famous People
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:47 pm
by Verbs and Nouns_Archive
Pavement - Range Life (Smashing Pumpkins / Stone Temple Pilots)
Songs About Famous People
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:56 pm
by matthias beebe_Archive
"Ballad of Jim Jones" by Brian Jonestown Massacre (double bonus points for band name)
Songs About Famous People
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:57 pm
by Verbs and Nouns_Archive
Dialed In - 90 Day Men. They mention Cormac McCarthy.
Songs About Famous People
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:03 pm
by Abductor
Killdozer has songs about Flannery O' Connor and Irwin Allen all in one record. That's pretty fancy.