MindCrime Posted March 14, 2009 Report Share Posted March 14, 2009 What are some songs that mention a celebrity (from fields other than music)? example: Jammin' Me - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Take back Vanessa Redgrave Take back Joe Piscopo Take back Eddie Murphy Givem all some place to go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skybluesky Posted March 14, 2009 Report Share Posted March 14, 2009 Take back Joe Piscopo Some one did and he never came back Candle in the Wind-Marylin Monroe Ingrid Bergman-Billy Bragg (written by Woody Guthrie) Vogue-Madonna~ Greta Garbo, and Monroe Deitrich and DiMaggio Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean On the cover of a magazine Grace Kelly; Harlow, Jean Picture of a beauty queen Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire Ginger Rodgers, dance on air They had style, they had grace Rita Hayworth gave good face Lauren, Katherine, Lana too Bette Davis, we love you Stratford-On-Guy~Liz Phair~ In the last strings of sunlight, a Brigitte Bardot Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" mentions a LOT of celebrites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skybluesky Posted March 14, 2009 Report Share Posted March 14, 2009 I Shall Be Free~Bob Dylan Well, my telephone rang it would not stop, It's President Kennedy callin' me up. He said, "My friend, Bob, what do we need to make the country grow?" I said, "My friend, John, Brigitte Bardot, Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren." (Put 'em all in the same room with Ernest Borgnine!) ... What I want to know, Mr. Football Man, is What do you do about Willy Mays and Yul Brynner, Charles de Gaulle And Robert Louis Stevenson?) ... I make love to Elizabeth Taylor . . . Catch hell from Richard Burton!) Andy Warhol~David Bowie Andy Warhol looks a scream Hang him on my wall Andy Warhol, silver screen Can't tell them apart at all Andy walking, Andy tired Andy take a little snooze Tie him up when he fast asleep Send him on a pleasant cruise Joan Crawford~Blue Oyster Cult Joan Crawford has risen from the grave Joan Crawford has risen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeBB Posted March 14, 2009 Report Share Posted March 14, 2009 Here's a few... Abraham, Martin & John - Dion Taxman - The Beatles Dear Mr Gable/You Made Me Love You - Judy Garland James Dean - Eagles The Day John Kennedy Died - Lou Reed Bradman - Paul Kelly (and many other songs about Don Bradman by many artists) Bloody Jeff - Scared Weird Little Guys God Save The Queen - Sex Pistols Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole (Simone de Beauvoir and others are mentioned). Many Lloyd Cole songs mention many writeres, artists, etc. My House - Lou Reed (the poet Delmore Schwartz) Mrs Robinson - S & G (Joe Dimaggio) Don't Stand So CLose To Me - Police (Nabokov) Buddy Holly - Weezer (Mary Tyler Moore) L, L. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skybluesky Posted March 14, 2009 Report Share Posted March 14, 2009 I'm having too much fun with this E-Bow The Letter~R.E.M. Dreaming of Maria Callas Whoever she is Rapper's Delight~The Sugarhill Gang Well, like Johnny Carson on the Late Show ... A like a Perry Mason without a case Like Farrah Fawcett without her face The almight D gives us, from Sasquatch~ In Search of Sasquatch... that was a kick-ass "In Search Of..." With Leonard Nimoy kickin out the *JAMS*. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Don Posted March 14, 2009 Report Share Posted March 14, 2009 Donna the Prima Donna--Dion "She wants to be just like Zsa Zsa Gabor…" (of course, it's mispronounced as "Za Za" Gabor…) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted March 31, 2009 Report Share Posted March 31, 2009 Renegades of Funk mentions Chief Sitting Bull, Tom Pain, Dr Martin Luther King and Malcolm X the ^video by RATM mentions quite a few more, mostly musicians Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted March 31, 2009 Report Share Posted March 31, 2009 "we didn't start the fire" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted April 14, 2009 Report Share Posted April 14, 2009 Gareth Brown says ~ mclusky (does anyone know who Gareth Brown is?) All of your tales are lies You've never been to Alton towers Michael Caine doesn't follow you And you've never been to Spain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted May 12, 2009 Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 This track, from the I Ludicrous anthology I purchased recently, is narrated by a pop fan who wins a competition for which the first prize is Sunday lunch with the Geldofs (Bob, Paula and baby daughter Fifi Trixibelle; this, of course, long before the ugly intervention of Michael Hutchence into the Geldofs' relationship): "A Pop Fan's Dream" - I Ludicrous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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