Musician's Name mentioned in songs

SDAddick · June 25

Hands Open, Snow Patrol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5IeT9ZRiRw&list=RDv5IeT9ZRiRw&start_radio=1

Put Sufjan Stevens on And we'll play your favourite song "Chicago" bursts to life And your sweet smile remembers you

Soulmates, Placebo
"The sea's evaporating / Though it comes as no surprise / These clouds we're seeing / They're explosions in the sky..."

Stefco · June 25

wolfgang said:

I am mentioned in "Chop Suey" by the Ramones.

I've had a look at the lyrics for that song, & whilst no names are mentioned, there are some potential clues:

Clue 1: From the line mentioning "Tiger Feet".
Theory: Are you a member of Mud? (Song: 'Tiger Feet'.)

Clue 2: From the lines mentioning "Where They really shake"
Theory: Are you Shakin' Stevens?

Clue 3: From the line mentioning "A real clambake"
Theory: Are you in fact, Elvis Presley? (Who starred in the movie 'Clambake'

Stig · June 25

"Oh help me Mrs Medlicott I don't know what to do. I've only got three bullets. And there's four of Motley Crue" - Upon Westminster Bridge, Half Man Half Biscuit

"Give me Love, give me Can, give me Meat Loaf, Give me Rush, give me Marquee Moon, Michael Ball, or The Fall could listen to them all... Hall & Oates, round of golf, Miles Davis, Patti Smith, Simply Red, Sly Stone be they false or for real, I don’t care and nor does Neil [Crossley]... Hüsker Dü-Dü-Dü, Captain Beefheart, ELO, Chris de Burgh, Sun Ra, Del Amitri, John Coltrane" - Irk the Purists, Half Man Half Biscuit

'I Love You Because You Look Like Jim Reeves' - Half Man Half Biscuit

“The body of Shane Fenton is in the laundry chute of the New Ambassadors Hotel near Euston Station” - Christian Rock Concert, Half Man Half Biscuit

"We had Slade, we had The Sweet, Sean had Chicory Tip” Awkward Sean, Half Man Half Biscuit

Stig · June 26

"Does the space cold make your nipples go pointy, Bowie? Do you use your pointy nipples as telescopic antennae to transmit data back to Earth? I bet you do you freaky old bastard you" - Bowie, Flight of the Conchords.

Stig · June 26

letthegoodtimesroll said:

...Let’s switch to something a bit more testing like songs that mention football manager names. I’ll start….

Here we go then. One band, five songs, eleven managers:

“She Looks Like Alan Gilzean” - Urge for Offal, HMHB

“Norman Hunter and Francis Lee are going toe-to-toe” - Persian Rug Sale At The URC, HMHB

“We thought Cruyff, Pelé or Best, Sean thought Müller or Maier” - Awkward Sean, HMHB

“So baby Ferenc Puskas to you, to you Baby Ferenc Puskas to you… Bert Trautmann lived round here. Yeah, lived down the road in St Helens, he was a prisoner of war man, wasn’t he? Didn’t he break his neck?…The Jesus Christ of Bloomfield Road - Stanley Mortensen!” - 1966 And All That, HMHB

"Well the Z could be for Zidane, Zico, Zola, Zubizarreta, Zoff, Even Zondervan” - The Referee’s Alphabet, HMHB

jose · June 26

In a minor reversal, may I say Albert Stubbins (Newcastle United and Liverpool) appears on the cover of Sgt Peppers?

lolwray · June 26

Stevie Wonders Sir Duke references a few

Ella Fitzgerald mentioned in Miss You by the Stones

Algarveaddick · June 26

Bo Diddley loved a song about himself.

Bo Diddley
Hey Bo Diddley
Diddley Daddy
Gunslinger
The Story of Bo Diddley

Also Bring it to Jerome, which was about his sidekick and maracas player, Jerome Green.

ken_shabby · June 26

Californication by the Red Hot Chillies mention 'Cobain can you hear the spheres.. ' which I imagine references the Nirvana front man.

Grace Kelly by Mika says 'so I try a little Freddie' which I imagine is the legendary Queen singer.

aliwibble · June 26

Stig said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

...Let’s switch to something a bit more testing like songs that mention football manager names. I’ll start….

Here we go then. One band, five songs, eleven managers:

“She Looks Like Alan Gilzean” - Urge for Offal, HMHB
“Norman Hunter and Francis Lee are going toe-to-toe” - Persian Rug Sale At The URC, HMHB
“We thought Cruyff, Pelé or Best, Sean thought Müller or Maier” - Awkward Sean, HMHB
“So baby Ferenc Puskas to you, to you Baby Ferenc Puskas to you… Bert Trautmann lived round here. Yeah, lived down the road in St Helens, he was a prisoner of war man, wasn’t he? Didn’t he break his neck?…The Jesus Christ of Bloomfield Road - Stanley Mortensen!” - 1966 And All That, HMHB
"Well the Z could be for Zidane, Zico, Zola, Zubizarreta, Zoff, Even Zondervan” - The Referee’s Alphabet, HMHB

Curse you Stig, every time you mention Half Man Half Biscuit, I earworm myself with 99 Percent of Gargoyles Look Like Bob Todd.

Off_it · June 26

ken_shabby said:

Grace Kelly by Mika says 'so I try a little Freddie' which I imagine is the legendary Queen singer.

It's actually about the fella from Rainbow. True fact.

TelMc32 · June 26

The Dream Academy mention Sinatra and The Beatles in Life In A Northern Town.

Kraftwerk’s Trans-Europe Express names Iggy Pop & David Bowie
Aztec Camera’s Walk Out To Winter mentions Strummer
Dexy’s Jackie Wilson Said

addickson · June 26

Listening to my tunes on random play and Teenage Fanclub - When I still have thee followed immediately by The Beach Boys - Add some music to your day both cited The Rolling Stones

addickson · June 26

Other favourites for me are Richmond Fontaine - Contrails mentioning Blue Oyster Cult (very possibly my favourite song ever), Ags Connolly - I saw James Hand and The Pearlfishers - Once I lived in London mentioning Yazz and Spandau Ballet

Stig · June 26

aliwibble said:

Stig said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

...Let’s switch to something a bit more testing like songs that mention football manager names. I’ll start….

Here we go then. One band, five songs, eleven managers:

“She Looks Like Alan Gilzean” - Urge for Offal, HMHB
“Norman Hunter and Francis Lee are going toe-to-toe” - Persian Rug Sale At The URC, HMHB
“We thought Cruyff, Pelé or Best, Sean thought Müller or Maier” - Awkward Sean, HMHB
“So baby Ferenc Puskas to you, to you Baby Ferenc Puskas to you… Bert Trautmann lived round here. Yeah, lived down the road in St Helens, he was a prisoner of war man, wasn’t he? Didn’t he break his neck?…The Jesus Christ of Bloomfield Road - Stanley Mortensen!” - 1966 And All That, HMHB
"Well the Z could be for Zidane, Zico, Zola, Zubizarreta, Zoff, Even Zondervan” - The Referee’s Alphabet, HMHB

Curse you Stig, every time you mention Half Man Half Biscuit, I earworm myself with 99 Percent of Gargoyles Look Like Bob Todd.

And the Odyssey continues:

"The son of Jimmy Clitheroe* is shouting out: 'Where’s my Fiorucci?'" - 99 Percent of Gargoyles Look Like Bob Todd, Half Man Half Biscuit

*Although mainly remembered as a 'comic', Clitheroe started out as an accordionist and also played the saxophone and xylophone [Tommy Cockles]

Thanks for that one, Ali 😉

PeakieRocket · June 26

“Stand up tall like Michael Stipe” Maybe by The Wonder Stuff

PeakieRocket · June 26

“I am Mark E Smith” by The Fat White Family

Stig · June 26

PeakieRocket said:

“I am Mark E Smith” by The Fat White Family

Southern Mark Smith by The Jazz Butcher

NorthheathAddick · June 27

Rock me Amadeus - Falco

kafka · June 27

NorthheathAddick said:

Rock me Amadeus - Falco

And of course Roll over Beethoven

thai malaysia addick · June 27

Nils Lofgren has Bob Dylan in the lyrics of I Came To Dance.

SouthallAddick · June 27

Crosby in these foolish things. A song seemingly covered by everyone.

redlanered · June 27

Algarveaddick said:

Bo Diddley loved a song about himself.

Bo Diddley
Hey Bo Diddley
Diddley Daddy
Gunslinger
The Story of Bo Diddley

Also Bring it to Jerome, which was about his sidekick and maracas player, Jerome Green.

And also "The day I saw Bo Diddley in Washington Square" by Willie Nile, not a bad song at all

Curb_It · June 27

I like swinging when Big Tom is singing!

The mighty Brendan Shine.

ken_shabby · June 27

Off_it said:

ken_shabby said:

Grace Kelly by Mika says 'so I try a little Freddie' which I imagine is the legendary Queen singer.

It's actually about the fella from Rainbow. True fact.

Don't like it anymore then 😕

TelMc32 · June 27

Curb_It said:

I like swinging when Big Tom is singing!

The mighty Brendan Shine.

Ah, the weekends spent in my aunt’s pub in Deptford when Brendan Shine was about the only artist on the jukebox #mentallyscarred 🙉😱😂

Shrew · June 28

Mark Kozelek sings (talks) a lot about other musicians on his Sun Kil Moon albums including these lyrics on the track "I Watched The Film The Song Remains The Same"
This is on ithe Benji album a quite brilliant but very melancholy listen.

I watched the film "The Song Remains the Same"
At the midnight movies when I was a kid
At a Canton, Ohio mall with friends
One warm summer weekend

Jimmy Page stood tall on screen
And I was mesmerized by everything
The Peter Grant/John Paul Jones dream sequence scenes
The closeup of the mahogany double-neck SG

And though I love the sound of the roaring Les Paul
What spoke to me most was "Rain Song" and "Bron-Yr-Aur"
And I loved the thunder of John Bonham's drums
But even more, I liked "No Quarter" low Fender Rhodes' hum

I don't know what happened or what anyone did
But from my earliest memories, I was a very melancholic kid
When anything close to me at all in the world died
To my heart, forever, it would be tied.

fattmatt · June 28

Craiiiiiiiiiiid David.

Coincidentally, a guy I went to uni with was from Southampton and went to school with him.

He (allegedly) used to go around rapping and singing Craiiiiiiig David to himself. They all thought he was a bit odd. But I doubt they're laughing now.

As an aside, my mate never saw him carrying a seagull.

CaptainRobbo · June 28

aliwibble said:

Spotting a theme there @Stig
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.
Jocky 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.

jose · June 29

The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah band named their whole outfit after the Led Zeppelin drummer even before he was famous.
Awesome masterstroke.

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