Friday Night is Music Night: Songs About Famous People

[Richard A Thackeray]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cly_2pGTNw

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

JFK

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Jackie Chan name-checked, and a few others too

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

The Skids
(featuring Stuart Adamson, who later formed Big Country)

Any song that has the name "Albert Tatlock" as a chorus deserves a mention (if belatedly)

 

[raleighnut]

View: https://youtu.be/UQpTnUAgA5E

 

[Dayvo]

Not exactly people, but, they are/were famous.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWQMMPFtoG4

 

[GM]

Quite a few in this one.....

 

[Beebo]

Might be about the tennis player!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45Ph_MXIP1o

Elton John wrote Philadelphia Freedom for Billie Jean King.

 

[Venod]

 

[brodiej]

View: https://youtu.be/OVd9J0iWg0E

 

[Venod]

Said to be partly autobiographical if Johnny B Goode wasn't famous when Chuck wrote it, he certainly is now.

 

[Houthakker]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUavFsfbFv8

 

[flake99please]

 

[smutchin]

This is a truly wonderful modern-trad folk song by Laura Smyth and Ted Kemp about Alizon Device of Pendle, who was accused of being a witch when a man suffered a stroke after arguing with her...

http://laurasmythandtedkemp.bandcamp.com/track/alizon-device

 

[smutchin]

I remember listening to John Peel's show the night this was broadcast and being in fits of laughter by the end of the first verse. Bizarrely, that was the one and only time it has ever been recorded - it doesn't appear on any album or single - which is a shame because it's a great song...

Half Man Half Biscuit - Mars Ultras You'll Never Make The Station

View: https://youtu.be/GKB7kHegrTM


(Sorry, John, I have to admit to quite liking the Tourists.)