[Music] Songs inspired by true events

[Norman Potting]

Prompted by just hearing "Dallas 1pm" by Saxon on Planet Rock (my WFH daily soundtrack).

Over to you, if obscure please elaborate.

 

[Superphil]

Do They Know it's Christmas - Band Aid

 

[rool]

I don't like Mondays.

 

[Is it PotG?]

The song tells the story of the Diggers, a radical group led by the visionary Gerard Winstanley who set up what was effectively an agricultural commune at St George’s Hill near Weybridge in Surrey amid the tumult of the English revolution. Their experiment was short-lived, destroyed by the violent opposition of local landowners.

 

[Is it PotG?]

The Falklands Conflict.

 

[Frutos]

Inspired by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting?wprov=sfla1

 

[SAC]

 

[BrianB]

 

[Hamilton]

The story of the wrongful conviction of Rubin Carter

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

 

[Muzzman]

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

It happened in Montreux (Switzerland) in 1971 when, around the end of a concert by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, a spectator fired a rocket that ignited the whole casino (it had to shut down and reopened only in 1975). The title Smoke on the Water, credited to bassist Roger Glover, refers to the smoke spreading over Lake Geneva from the burning casino, while the members of Deep Purple watched the fire from their hotel.

 

[Hamilton]

Not heard that before. Thanks.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

"Jeremy" is based on two different true stories. The song takes its main inspiration from a newspaper article about a 15-year-old boy named Jeremy Wade Delle from Richardson, Texas, who shot himself in front of his teacher and his second-period English class of 30 students on the morning of January 8, 1991.

 

[hart's shirt]

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

The song is about the Moors murders that took place on Saddleworth Moor, which overlooks Manchester, between 1963 and 1965.

 

[Brovion]

'Solomon Browne'. It's about the Penlee lifeboat disaster in 1981. (Although the song was recorded in 2002).

 

[schmunk]

 

[GT49er]

 

[Stato]

The song tells the story of the Diggers, a radical group led by the visionary Gerard Winstanley who set up what was effectively an agricultural commune at St George’s Hill near Weybridge in Surrey amid the tumult of the English revolution. Their experiment was short-lived, destroyed by the violent opposition of local landowners.

Great song and amazing story. Written by Leon Rosselson in the mid seventies and possibly inspired by the 1970 book of the same name by Marxist historian Christopher Hill that dug up lost history on the Diggers, Levellers, Ranters etc. I'm currently reading it and it's fascinating to learn about the existence of a lot of radical ideas that came to prominence at the time of the English Civil War. A lot of these would resurface 100 years later with the American and French revolutions and then be taken up by leftist philosophers, including Marx, in the nineteenth century.