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Musician's Name mentioned in songs

LennyLowrent
LennyLowrent Posts: 2,755
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There must be many…

II'll begin with Aretha Franklin.

Her name is mentioned by Scritti Politti - 'Wood Bees'

and Steely Dan - 'Hey nineteen'

(Steely Dan are also mentioned by. ..Steely Dan in 'Showbiz kids')

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  • superclive98
    superclive98 Posts: 5,437
    Woody Guthrie - Song to Woody - Bob Dylan
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 33,948
    edited June 24
    The Pasedenas must have mentioned loads in one of their songs.

    edit - Tribute (Right on) about fifteen musicians mentioned.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 36,069
    Neil Young is mentioned by Lynyrd Skynyrd in Sweet Home Alabama. 
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 11,421
    Johnny B Good…played the guitar 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,840
    "My Long Throw Horns Playing Steely Dan" - Itinerant Child, Ian Dury ATB

    "My brother's back at home with his Beatles and his Stones" - All the Young Dudes, Bowie/Mott The Hoople

    "I disagree entirely with your choice Peetie Wheatstraw had a better voice" - Letters Sent, Half Man Half Biscuit

    "Len [Leonard Cohen], You're the dog's" - Letters Sent, Half Man Half Biscuit

    'Roll Over Beethoven" - Chuck Berry


  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 11,421
    edited June 24
    Roll over Beethoven…

    another Chuck Berry song

  • jose
    jose Posts: 1,472
    Sweet Gene Vincent.
    Ian Dury and the Blockheads.
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 11,421
    Big Bopper ‘mentions’ himself in the intro to Chantlly Lace…


  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,840
    "I love Jack White like a little brother" - It's True That We Love One Another, White Stripes

    "I keep wicket for the quakers in me Joy Division Oven Gloves" - Joy Division Oven Gloves, Half Man Half Biscuit

    "Let's Dance to Joy Division" - The Wombats

    "I drunk myself blind to the sound of old T. Rex" - You Better You Bet, The Who

    "Thou shalt not take the names of Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer, Johnny Hartman, Desmond Dekker, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix or Syd Barrett in vain" - Thou Shalt Always Kill, Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip

    "The Beatles were just a band, Led Zeppelin, just a band, The Beach Boys, just a band, The Sex Pistols, just a band, The Clash, just a band, Crass, just a band, Minor Threat, just a band, The Cure, just a band, The Smiths, just a band, Nirvana, just a band, The Pixies, just a band, Oasis, just a band, Radiohead, just a band, Bloc Party, just a band, The Arctic Monkeys, just a band" - Thou Shalt Always Kill, Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 29,383
    Reynolds Girls - I'd Rather Jack. Mentions Yazz, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Dire Straits and, of course, Fleetwood Mac.

    What a truly great group they were.

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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,840
    "I saw Badly Drawn Boy in a badly parked car with a badly grazed elbow" - Goodbye Sam, Hello Samaritans - Half Man Half Biscuit

    "I am Damo Suzuki" - The Fall

    "    Frank Zappa and The Mothers were at the best place around" - Smoke on The Water - Deep Purple

    "There's A Guy Works Down Our Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis" - Kirsty MacColl

    "Levi Stubbs' Tears run down his face" - Billy Bragg
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 23,525
    Eminem lists rappers he thinks are good in Til I Collapse:

    "I got a list, here's the order of my list that it's in. It goes: Reggie, Jay-Z, 2Pac and Biggie. André from OutKast, Jada, Kurupt, Nas, and then me."

    He also mentions about 50 people in other various songs, almost entirely in a derogatory manner 
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 29,468
    Spotting a theme there @Stig :smile: 
    There's loads in We Didn't Start The Fire by Billy Joel: Doris Day (singer as well as an actress), Johnny Ray, Liberace, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Chubby Checker, Bob Dylan and The Beatles (well, Beatlemania). Also not sure if Toscanini counts, as he was a conductor.
    Jackie Wilson Said by Dexy's Midnight Runners: obvious
    When Smokey Sings by ABC: Smokey Robinson, but the album version also references Luther Vandross, Sly Stone, James Brown and Marvin Gaye towards the end.

  • NorthheathAddick
    NorthheathAddick Posts: 4,153
    edited June 25
    Madness - The Prince
  • wolfgang
    wolfgang Posts: 824
    I am mentioned in "Chop Suey" by the Ramones.
  • gringo
    gringo Posts: 1,171
    Kate Bush sang about Sandy Dennis in Blow Away.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,685
    "They screamed when The Beatles sang" Born in the Fifties, The Police
  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,138
    Song for Bob Dylan - David Bowie
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 27,862
    Chaka Khan in Chaka Khans I feel for you 

    living in a box, by Living in a box 

    Life in a Big Country by Big Country

    Who are you - The Who

    Take That and party - Take That

    Hey Hey were the Monkees - The Monkees

    My name is Prince - Prince

    Killer Queen - Queen

    Like a Rolling Stone - Rolling Stones 
  • Gillis
    Gillis Posts: 1,056
    "Listen to Iron Maiden, baby, with me" - Teenage Dirtbag, Wheatus

    "And on the L train in the morning, I was pretty sure I saw Will Oldham...
    ...'Cause The Stones in '65 want total satisfaction, kid
    But The Stones in '69 see grace in just getting what you need...
    ... But even you must want to quit like if you hear a record by Bob Dylan or Neil Young or whatever" - Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror, Jeffrey Lewis

    "The sign ahead glowing red said The Chelsea Hotel
    Where Nancy and Sid Vicious and my friend Dave once dwelled...
    ... She was trying to describe a song I knew well
    Leonard Cohen's song about The Chelsea Hotel" - The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song, Jeffrey Lewis

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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 86,476
     "Who needs tv when we've got T Rex" - all the young dudes - Mott

    "Who needs tv when we've got Subway Sect" - Skids


  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 86,476
    "Where you keep your Rolling Stones records" in "where do you go to, my lovely"
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,189
    aliwibble said:
    Spotting a theme there @Stig :smile: 
    There's loads in We Didn't Start The Fire by Billy Joel: Doris Day (singer as well as an actress), Johnny Ray, Liberace, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Chubby Checker, Bob Dylan and The Beatles (well, Beatlemania). Also not sure if Toscanini counts, as he was a conductor.
    Jackie Wilson Said by Dexy's Midnight Runners: obvious
    When Smokey Sings by ABC: Smokey Robinson, but the album version also references Luther Vandross, Sly Stone, James Brown and Marvin Gaye towards the end.

    Geno by Dexys as well.

    Then there's this by New Radicals in Got to Get what you Give:

    Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson (don't give up)
    Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson
    You're all fakes, run to your mansions
    Come around, we'll kick your ass in
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,910
    Michael Stipe mentioned in The Wonder Stuff song, Maybe from their third album, Never Loved Elvis 
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 22,235
    edited June 25
    Kirsty McColl - There’s a guy works down our chip shop swears he’s Elvis
  • CafcWest
    CafcWest Posts: 6,370
    My, My, Hey hey (out of the blue) - Neil Young all about Johnny Rotten.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,840
    "Johnny Guitar will tell 'em where it goes" - 24 Minutes From Tulse Hill, Carter USM

    "The Bastard Son of Dean Friedman" - Half Man Half Biscuit

    "Nigel Blackwell prey, please do tell, how could your parents miss it. Bakers son, born of a bun, half a man, half a biscuit", A Bakers Tale - Dean Friedman
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,189
    Bill Oddie, who scored a hit with the Funky Gibbon when in the Goodies, is name checked repeatedly in the song Erotic by Madonna
  • Ducktapeshoerepairs
    Ducktapeshoerepairs Posts: 1,084
    ‘I just wanted to be one of The Strokes’ - Arctic Monkeys (star treatment)
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,910
    McBobbin said:
    Bill Oddie, who scored a hit with the Funky Gibbon when in the Goodies, is name checked repeatedly in the song Erotic by Madonna

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