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Songs About Famous People
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:16 am
by Rotten Tanx_Archive
Robert De Niro's Waiting - Bananarama
Songs About Famous People
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:22 am
by burun_Archive
Boss Hog, "Pete Shore"
Songs About Famous People
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:24 am
by DNA Concept_Archive
Yo La Tengo - Let's Burn Tony Orlando's House
Fugazi - Foreman's Dog
Simon & Garfunkel - So Long Frank Lloyd Wright
Citing rap gets us into murky territory, because there's so many great diss tracks:
Common - The Bitch In Yoo
Canibus - Second Round KO (followed by LL's Ripper Strikes Back, Canibus' response to the response, ad infinitum)
Nas - Ether
etc etc etc
Songs About Famous People
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:30 am
by tommydski_Archive
Who is Fugazi's 'Foreman's Dog' about?
I love this song so much.
Songs About Famous People
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:44 am
by DNA Concept_Archive
It's about George Foreman's dog. Questionable as it's not a famous
person per se.
Guy wrote:That phrase, "Foreman's Dog," was inspired by the Muhammad Ali documentary "When We Were Kings." You know that scene where George Foreman comes off the plane and he's got his dog there? He was just bringing his German shepherds over because they were his dogs and it was a little bit of machismo. But to the people in Zaire, when he showed up with these dogs, they were a symbol of the Belgian colonialists who had been there earlier, they were a symbol of imperial power. So George Foreman's public-relations move was a complete bust because he showed up without having any concept of what he was doing. It was really inadvertent, but it was read by the people that way.
Songs About Famous People
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:45 am
by Colonel Panic_Archive
Songs about infamous murderers
Seems like there are a few bands out there who have made careers out of singing about only murderers...
Songs About Famous People
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:54 am
by HOUSTON_M_Archive
From two of Steve Albini's favourite bands:
The Byrds - "He Was a Friend of Mine"
&
Jane's Addiction - "Ted, Just Admit It..."
Songs About Famous People
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:00 am
by big_dave_Archive
"Taxman" is about Edward Heath, (as is Taxman, Mr Thief)
"Eleanor Rigby" is about the name on an old gravestone
"I'm Only Sleeping" is about paul macartney
"Love You To" is about Herr Harrison's current cocksock
"Here, There and Everywhere" is about Jane Asher
"She Said She Said" is about Peter Fonda
"Good Day Sunshine" is about Jane Asher
"And Your Bird Can Sing" is about Mick Jagger
"Doctor Robert" is about some drug deal called Robert
"Got to Get You into My Life" is about Mary Juana
Songs About Famous People
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:27 am
by STF_Archive
"Stuck Between Stations" by the Hold Steady is about John Berryman.
I know a lot of you are huge Hold Steady fans.
Songs About Famous People
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:17 pm
by Trophy Moose_Archive
Great thread. Off my head the Fall have written about one of Bishop Muzorewi’s kids, Cary Grant, Pope Jean Paul the first, Damo Suzuki, Martin Borman, Doctor Faustus, Terry Waite, William of Orange. Oprah gets a mention, Joe Strummer, Shaun Ryder … you probably get a mention.