Songs about someone

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