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[Music] Songs in which real people are namechecked in the title or the lyrics



hart's shirt

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Jul 8, 2003
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Kitbag in Dubai
Prince Buster - Madness



Madness - The Prince

 








The Clamp

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Jan 11, 2016
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West is BEST
John Wesley Hardin.
Subject of the magnificent song Hardin Wouldn’t Run by Steve Earle.
 






smillie's garden

Am I evil?
Aug 11, 2003
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A bit surprised this has not been put up yet. Lenny Bruce (twice), Lester Bangs, and, of course Leonard Bernstein.


This one's in the title:



"Mr Crowley" by Ozzy Osbourne
"Bohemian Rhapsody" Queen
And, in the time of Kavanaugh, the Sonic Youth song "Youth Against Fascism" has to be mentioned for the lyric "I believe Anita Hill".
 








smillie's garden

Am I evil?
Aug 11, 2003
2,595
Actress Francis Farmer, in the song Lobotomy Gets ‘em Home by The Men They Couldn’t Hang.

Not to mention "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle" by Nirvana; "Frances Farmer" by Patterson Hood; and "Ugly Little Dreams" by Everything but the Girl!
 








Publius Ovidius

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Jul 5, 2003
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at home
I assume someone has put " looking through gary Gilmore's eyes" ?
 










Hamilton

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Jul 7, 2003
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Brighton
John Smeaton

220px-John_Smeaton.jpg


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smeaton



"Would never have happened to Smeaton"
 








boik

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Blimey, there's so many.
Mark Kozeleks later work is stuffed with refrences.

Livingstone Bramble mentions boxers Livingstone Bramble, Keith Thurman and Ray Boom Boom Mancini PLUS guitarists Jeff Beck, Jonny Marr, Steve Vrai, Jay Farrar, Nels Cline, Derek Trucks and Jimmy Page.

On the same album:

Hey You ******** I'm Still Here: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, David Carradine, Robert Blake and Jonny Carson
 


sussex_guy2k2

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Jun 6, 2014
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Michaela Strachan - Scouting for girls

To be "hip", anything by Nicki Minaj, who basically discusses the famous men she's slept with in most songs :O
 


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