Bands/Artists who have songs about other Bands/Artists

[The Modfather]

Gorillaz - Bobby in Phoenix (about Bobby Womack)
Belle and Sebastian - A century of Elvis
Kula Shaker - Grateful when your dead (about Jerry Garcia)
Madness - The Prince

 

[CP 0 3 BHA]

Manu Chao - Mr Bobby



Top of my list of acts I've not seen live but want to.

 

[CP 0 3 BHA]

Does The Undertones - My Perfect Cousin - count?

They did get the Human League in to advise Kevin!

 

[HAILSHAM SEAGULL]

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One of the best

 

[sams dad]

Spandau Ballet - True ( "listening to Marvin all night long")

 

[Superphil]

The Reynolds Girls, 'I'd rather Jack, than Fleetwood Mac'

 

[Pevenseagull]

at least a dozen songs by Drive By Truckers

for example:

 

[Pevenseagull]

Neal Young - "Southern Man" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Sweet Home Alabama" - Neal Young

the above is a song about the songs


go figure

 

[Pevenseagull]

I count 6 name checks ........ I may have lost count


LET THERE BE ROCK

 

[Pevenseagull]

Hunky Dory has many references

 

[Pevenseagull]

 

[desprateseagull]

Bananananarama did one about Robert de Niro.. does that count?>

 

[SouthCoastOwl]

Bananananarama did one about Robert de Niro.. does that count?>

Not even close.

Lynryd Skynryd - The ballad of Curtis Lowe
Marillion - King (about Elvis Presley)

 

[Superphil]

Maroon 5 - Moves Like Jagger

Mika - Grace Kelly (refers to Freddie Mercury)

 

[Icy Gull]

Another Neil Young one - references Dylan, Hank Williams and the Grateful Dead

Twisted Road

First time I heard 'Like A Rolling Stone'
I felt that magic and took it home
Gave it a twist and made it mine
But nothing was as good as the very first time
Poetry rolling off his tongue
Like Hank Williams chewing bubble gum
Asking me 'how does it feel'?

First time I heard 'Like A Rolling Stone'
I felt that magic and took it home

Walking with the devil on a twisted road
Listen to the dead on the radio
That old time music used to soothe my soul
If I ever get home I'm gonna let the good times roll
Let the good times roll

 

[red star portslade]

Long Ryders - Looking for Lewis and Clark

" Tim got to heaven and told Gram, about the Long Ryders and just who I am "

Gram Parsons died 40 years ago tomorrow.

 

[PFJ]

A little tenuous maybe

Hey Jude -Beatles , although sung about a very young Julian lennon , he did later become an artist in his own right.
Shine On You Crazy Diamond -Pink Floyd , about former band mate Syd Barrett
Crossroads -Cream -About blues singer Robert Johnson's deal with the devil. Got a feeling it may be an adapatation of a Robert Johnson song though.
Dio-Tenacious D

 

[Trufflehound]

The Leyton Buzzards - No Dry Ice or Flying Pigs

"We're not avant-garde like Magazine
And we can't sing in harmony like Queen (Galileo, Galileo, Galileo)
We have not been on The Old Grey Whistle Test
And I can't think of another line to rhyme."



Despite the title though, Pink Floyd don't get a mention.

 

[tinycowboy]

David Bowie - The Laughing Gnome. Makes me smile, makes my wife ANGRY.

(Own up, I'm a gnome, ain't I right, haha)
"Haven't you got an 'ome to go to?"
(No, we're gnomads)
"Didn't they teach you to get your hair cut at school?
you look like a rolling gnome."
(No, not at the London School of Ecognomics)

 

[Box of Frogs]

David Bowie - Song for Bob Dylan

Scissor Sisters - Paul McCartney