Songs about famous people

[troot28]

Please help - I am trying to compile a list of songs about famous people. E.g:-

He's misstra know it all - Richard Nixon - Stevie Wonder
Cars and Girls -Bruce springsteen - Prefab Sprout
tramp the dirt down - Margaret Thatcher - Elvis Costello

Thanks

[gary baldy]

Your so vain - Carly Simon (Mick Jagger or Warren Beatty -depends who you believe)

Abraham, Martin and John - by Marvin Gaye (Lincoln, Luther King and Kennedy respectively)

Jackie Wilson Says - Dexys Midnight Runners (about the famous darts player)

Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes (or Dickie Davis Eyes by Half man Half Biscuit)

Best and Marsh by New order (George and Rodney)

[dr pop]

King by UB40,Pride(in the name of love) by U2 and Happy Birthday by Stevie Wonder are all about Martin Luther King.Wonder `s Sir Duke is about Duke Ellington

[DiscoStu]

A very obvious one is Elton John's 'Candle in the Wind'. 1st time round about Marilyn Monroe, and 2nd time for Princess Diana.

Don Maclean's 'Vincent' is about Vincent van Gogh.

[cliffsdoll]

theres a guy, works down the fish shop, swears he's elvis

[mightyWBA]

Bonzo goes to Bitburg by the Ramones was about Ronald Reagan.

[halfadaily]

Sweet Gene Vincent - Ian Dury & the Blockheads

[halfadaily]

Don Maclean - American Pie ( Buddy Holly & Big Bopper)

[kags]

Angel of Harlem by U2 about Billie Holliday, and Hurricane by Bob Dylan about Rubin Carter.

[kazza12345]

black velvet -allana myles (elvis)

[BriWrite]

When Smokey Sings A.B.C (Smokey Robinson)

Gary Baldy - I hope you were joking about Jackie Wilson.

[halfadaily]

a few more:

The Who - Pictures of Lily (Lily Langtree)

Prince Buster - Al Capone

Madness - The Prince (Prince Buster)

Crosby, Stills and Nash - Suite: Judy blue eyes (Judy Collins)

and a couple of dubious ones;

Chuck Berry - Roll over Beethoven

Genesis - Jesus He knows me

[Ward-Minter]

"Song For Dylan" (Bob Dylan) by David Bowie on the CD "Hunky Dory"

"Andy Warhol" by David Bowie also on the CD "Hunky Dory"

"Brian Wilson" (Beach Boy) by Barenaked Ladies

[ermintrude35]

..John Kettley Is A Weatherman - Tribe Of Toffs....

...mr.bojangles - nina simone (about bill "bojangles" robinson)...

[cherrybomb]

Kung Fu by Ash

Who Killed Marilyn by The Misfits

God save the Queen by The Sex Pistols

[starmack]

Campaigner by Neil Young (about Richard Nixon)

Ambulance Blues by Neil Young (Richard Nixon Watergate era)

MLK by U2 (about Martin Luther King)

Van Diemens Land by U2 (about John Boyle Reilly, Irish poet and political activist deported to Tasmania 19th century. Later famed in America).

Return of the Grievous Angel by Gram Parsons (full verse about Elvis Presley habits, while still alive)

Hey Sandy by Christy Moore (about Sandra Schwartz, one of four students killed on Kent State University Campus 1970 by American National Guard)

He Looks Like Spencer Tracy Now by Deacon Blue (a phrase by writer Roger Rosenblatt in Time magazine interviewing a pilot on 40th anniversary of his take-off from Tinian Island in one of the planes which accompanied the Enola Gay on its route to drop the atom bomb)

Ballad of Ira Hayes by Johnny Cash (about one of the soldiers who raised the American flag at Iwo Jima in World War Two, one of the most iconic photographs in the entire 20th century. Ira Hayes was an Indian who died from alcoholism).

Warren Gamaliel Harding by Al Stewart (about American President of same name, post World War One).

Biko by Peter Gabriel (about Stephen Biko, killed by South African police in detention September 1977, Port Elizabeth. Sparked uprising).

Nixon Meets the Godfather by David Frye (Great American comedian caught mood of a potential Richard Nixon/Marlon Brando encounter. :I gotta get out of the Watergate mess fast;" "So, do you want justice?;" "Eh, not necessarily, my fellow Italian-American..." Super.

Johnny Thompson Song - Assorted Artists (About Glasgow Celtic goalie died after injury in match with Rangers September 1931).

[ermintrude35]

..few more..

...crazy diamond - pink floyd (about syd barret)

... gary gilmore's eyes- by the adverts (about criminal who was the first person legally executed in the United States after the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, he donated his corneas to 2 people )

[starmack]

Vincent by Brian Kennedy (version about George Best, sung at funeral in Stormont Castle, Belfast on December 3rd 2005).

[starmack]

Victor Jara by Arlo Guthrie, or Dick Gaughan, or Christy Moore (about famous Chile song writer murdered in the Santaigo football stadium in September 1973 after Pinochet's military coup)

Blood Upon The Grass - contemporary Scottish song about same incident and the decision of the Scottish football team to play a friendly match there afterwards

Promise The Wind by John Stewart (ex Kingston Trio) (about former US Presidet Jimmy Carter)

The Last Campaign by John Stewart (about Senator Robert Kennedy's final campaign 1968 for US Presidency)

[dotjhawkes]

Dear Mr Gable - Judy Garland to Clark Gable

[dotjhawkes]

House at Pooh Corner (Winnie The Pooh)- Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Garden Party- Rick Nelson (Yoko Ono, John Lennon and the Beatles too)