Songs about someone

Hello folks.

I am looking for songs about famous persons, praise or condemnation or something in between.

I can be spiritual, about god or someone from a religion, political, about dictators or heroes. Or just what ever you can think of.

Give me all you got!!

Thanks!

this will go well

lol

'Song For Whoever' by The Beautiful South

I Still Miss Someone tbh

but at least there's Someone to Watch Over Me

I also hear that Someone's in the Kitchen With Dinah

a good, long thread would be "Songs about Courtney Love"

I bet you think this thread is about you.

isn't that who Someone Great is Gone is about

Turrican beat my to my first choice but I will add

"If I Needed Someone" - The Beatles
"Someone Who Cares" - The Only Ones

Animal Collective "Guys Eyes" was originally called "Song for Ariel" (Pink), and it's about jerking off in order to remain faithful to your partner when you're away from them.

charming

ultimately, a good message

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5elfdz1aBxk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLMVB0B1_Ts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccJC1-owFKc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiK7HcUx_BY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4sANPkk3ys

Animal Collective "Guys Eyes" was originally called "Song for Ariel" (Pink), and it's about jerking off in order to remain faithful to your partner when you're away from them.

― flappy bird, Thursday, August 17, 2017 6:56 PM (fifty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

See! I knew they were a bunch of wankers!

lol

https://y.yarn.co/d44f446b-703e-4379-9753-1c6bc261040c_text_hi.gif

Just because I was curious, here's a list of John Cale songs named after people, real and fictional:

Charlemagne
Graham Greene
Macbeth
Mr. Wilson
Helen of Troy
Cable Hogue
Pablo Picasso (Modern Lovers cover)
Dr. Mudd
Captain Hook
Hedda Gabler
Risé, Sam and Rimsky Korsakov
The Soul of Carmen Miranda
Magritte
Archimedes
Hemingway
Mothra (OK, maybe I'm reaching here)

These are all on "The Academy in Peril":

Brahms
Legs Larry at Television Centre
3 Orchestral Pieces: Faust/The Balance/Captain Morgan's Lament"
King Harry
John Milton

... and there's one more...

Jack the Ripper at the Moulin Rouge

Like 50% of Warren Zevon's recorded output

MGMT "Brian Eno"

I feel like a lot of songs named after people aren't actually about them in any real way.

Agree with the last. Here is one exception I came across recently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4pYHQyO1Yk

Tori Amos - Jackie's Strength

About the former First Lady

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi5NLFMYukg

Songs about Kurt Cobain:

"Sleeps With Angels" - Neil Young
"Beautiful Son" - Hole
"Let Me In" - R.E.M.
"About a Boy" - Patti Smith
"Tearjerker" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Mighty K.C." - For Squirrels (lol)
"My Hero" - Foo Fighters
"Friend of a Friend" - Foo Fighters
"Big Me" - Foo Fighters

there are probably way more FF songs about KC but I don't feel like googling anymore

Smashing Pumpkins songs about Courtney Love:

Luna
Silverfuck
Fuck You
Love
Where Boys Fear to Tread
Bodies
X.Y.U.
Rotten Apples
Marquis in Spades
Blank
I of the Mourning

I feel like a lot of songs named after people aren't actually about them in any real way.

https://youtu.be/ZoU3tUldZ9w

"Something" by the Beatles and "Layla" by Derek and the Dominos were both famously written about Pattie Boyd.

"Seymour Stein" - Belle & Sebastian

Replacements "Alex Chilton"

stop