Friday night is music night - songs about true events

[Salty seadog]

Hurricane by Bob Dylan.
[media]
]View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpZvg_FjL3Q[/media]

Oi, that was gonna be mine you rotter.

 

[slowmotion]

Oi, that was gonna be mine you rotter.

 

[newfhouse]

Rush - Manhattan Project

View: https://youtu.be/_zE4MKIXxL0


OMD - Enola Gay

View: https://youtu.be/d5XJ2GiR6Bo

 

[classic33]

New York Mining Disaster 1941 - Bee Gees

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S43YhQ_eGTw


Only there was no mining disaster in New York, in 1941, it's about Aberfan

 

[Yellow Fang]

There was a murderer called Gary Gilmour who bequested his eyes to science after his execution, and several of his body parts, including his corneas, were used in transplants.

 

[classic33]

Farewell to Pripyat - Christy Moore
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H1_IpbBjGpQ

 

[roadrash]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxPj3GAYYZ0

 

[robjh]

Think I've got in before @Dave 123 in posting a Billy Bragg track

 

[netman]

The Great Depression:

 

[classic33]

Three from the race course.
Arkle - Dominic Behan

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V_PDZ8vcgVs


Dawn Run - Foster & Allen

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qw3hE2PxoTU


Danoli - Richie Kavanagh

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7YDowbDxok

 

[Salty seadog]

View: https://youtu.be/W8r-tXRLazs

 

[winjim]

Are we counting autobiographical songs?


View: https://youtu.be/TSffz_bl6zo

 

[Yellow Fang]

About a riot in Brixton apparently.

 

[GM]

Empty Garden - Elton John

 

[netman]