Songs named after bands/musicians - crossing genres prefered but not required

"My Dear Mr. Gaye", Teena Marie

insofar as he's no-one's genre

Two bands in one, or one-and-a-half if you're being anal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmkeHx6Yn_g
Gabrielle • Neil Young

(Gabrielle = Gabrielle Leithaug, who's Norwegian - lyrics included!)

Mötley Crüe - 'Primal Scream'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZzd2P2YR4c
Aya Nakamura • Oumou Sangaré

Julian Cope, "Julian H. Cope"

Bob Dylan - The Ballad of Geddy Lee & Judas Priest

Someone should write that song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giXoC9Q9lag
Tems • Ice T

Pavement - Ed Ames

The Auteurs • The Rubettes

Redd Kross - "Shonen Knife"
Shonen Knife - "Redd Kross"

Archers of Loaf - Ethel Merman

Les Rythmes Digitales ft. Thomas Ribeiro - 'Soft Machine'

Morphine - 'Yes'

Jimmy Webb - "PF Sloan"

Half Man Half Biscuit to thread...

Surely someone has returned the honor by naming a song Wesley Wellis.

a classic of the genre:
“Marvin Gaye" by Charlie Puth featuring Meghan Trainor (of “All About Ace Of Base” fame).

Gaye famously made an answer record: “What’s Going On, What’s Happening Brother (Make Me Wanna Holler)”.

thank you for enjoying my content

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ7yeSI9-g8

Big Dipper - 'Robert Pollard'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePraqQ27L-8

Kraftwerk, "Franz Schubert"

michael chapman - mozart lives upstairs
phil ochs - bach, beethoven, mozart & me

ABC - When Smokey Sings

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Kevin Ayers

Family Fodder - Debbie Harry
Sebadoh - Slintstrumental
1/2 Japanese - Patti Smith
Tonstartssbandht - Andy Summers
Tortoise - Ry Cooder
Television Personalities - I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives

Surely someone has returned the honor by naming a song Wesley Willis.
Heavy Vegetable - Song For Wesley

Elton John - "Levon" (supposedly denied by Bernie Taupin but really, who else could the song have been named after?)

Miles Davis - John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin - Miles Davis

Anal C**t - Connor Clapton Killed Himself Because His Father Sucks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fCyO3wEqig
Skeng • Elvis Presley

too bad he can’t return the favour

not a song but after Slayer named one of their albums Live Undead, Undead released an album called Live Slayer

In the same vein I guess is David Bowie naming an album "Low", and in response, Nick Lowe naming his debut EP "Bowi"

John Cale

Mr. Wilson
Brahms
Risé, Sam & Rimsky Korsakov
The Soul of Carmen Miranda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt68vWOtOtM
DJ Danifox • Robert Johnson

Jim Jones - “Barry White”

Billy Bragg - "Levi Stubbs' Tears"

Aw shit, I didn't CTRL+F that one.

Prefab Sprout - “Faron Young”

No-one mentioned "The Beatles and the Stones" by the House of Love yet?

"Cowboy Junkies Lament", written by Townes Van Zandt and performed by Cowboy Junkies.
"Townes' Blues", written and performed by Cowboy Junkies.

caetano veloso - maria bethânia
maria bethânia - mano caetano

i guess the dead c's amm of punk rock might also qualify

"Sweet Gene Vincent" by Ian Dury & The Blockheads

Rae Sremmurd - Black Beatles
Jamila Woods - Betty
Jamila Woods - Sun Ra
Jamila Woods - Eartha
Jamila Woods - Miles
Jamila Woods - Muddy
Jamila Woods - Betty (For Boogie)
AKA - Fela in Versace
Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing ta F' Wit

I guess the last one could be a thread of its own

Craig David's tribute to the Pretty Things, "(Can You) Phil May In"

Laura Veirs, "Carol Kaye"

Cracker- "Low"

μ-Ziq - Roy Castle
Fatboy Slim - Michael Jackson
R.E.M. - Lightnin' Hopkins
Beady Eye - Beatles and Stones
MGMT - Brian Eno
Busted - Britney
The Avalanches - Frankie Sinatra
Beck - Harry Partch

And if these count:

Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians - The Wreck of the Arthur Lee
Robyn Hitchcock - I Saw Nick Drake
Sparks - (When I Kiss You) I Hear Charlie Parker Playing
Scritti Politti - Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)
Robbie Williams with Pet Shop Boys - She's Madonna
They Might Be Giants - XTC vs. Adam Ant
Super Furry Animals - The Very Best of Neil Diamond

The Wildhearts - Tim Smith

Jimmy McGriff- Spear for Moondog