Songs that mention a real person in it

[low-key]

Yeah!
Usher
Peace up, A-Town down
Yeah! Okay (Usher, Usher, Usher)
Lil' Jon
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

 

[low-key]

She grew up with the children of the stars
in the Hollywood hills and the boulevards.
Her parents threw big parties. Everyone was there.
They hung out with folks like Dennis Hopper and Bob Seger and
Sonny and Cher.
She feels safe now in this bar on Fairfax.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Gaelic Storm - "The Night I Punched Russel Crowe"

I went with this unofficial Lego music video, because it amuses me

The story may or may not be true.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Too many people to name. One of the earliest websites I ever remember visiting was the lyrics to this song with links explaining each thing. Ah, the mid 90's!

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Where have you gone, Joe Dimaggio?

Also, um depending on your point of view, there's:
God bless you please, Mrs. Robinson,
Jesus loves you more than you will know.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

(insert every single DJ Khaled song here)

 

[Toolulu22]

Billy Joel- We Didn’t Start the Fire

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide
Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning....

 

[RedAngie]

Greta Garbo, and Monroe
Dietrich and DiMaggio
Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean
On the cover of a magazine
Grace Kelly, Harlow, Jean
Picture of a beauty queen
Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers, dance on air
They had style, they had grace
Rita Hayworth gave good face
Lauren, Katherine, Lana too
Bette Davis, we love you
Ladies with an attitude
Fellas that were in the mood
Don't just stand there, let's get to it
Strike a pose, there's nothing to it

 

[RedAngie]

And the Julie Brown parody of Vogue, "Vague."

Vanna White, Ed McMahon
Nicolette Sheridan
Mary Hart, Chuck Woolery
Are as vague as they can be
Brooke Shields, Dawber, Pam
Personality of Spam
Christie Brinkley, Brosnan, Pierce
Bland and boring something fierce
Wilson Phillips loved to sing
And wreck the cover of a magazine
Daniel Quayle's brain is gone
Debbie Gibson gives good yawn
Kelly LeBrock thinks she's great
She's just cold boogers on a paper plate
Why they're famous we don't know
But Paula Abdul's gotta go

 

[disneychrista]

Homesick - Kane Brown

Well it says Kane Brown on a sign with a line out the door

 

[low-key]

Those Were the Days
Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton

Boy the way Glen Miller played
Songs that made the hit parade.
Guys like us we had it made,
Those were the days.
And you knew who you were then,
Girls were girls and men were men,
Mister we could use a man
Like Herbert Hoover again.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Crazy Chester followed me and he caught me in the fog
He said, "I will fix your rack if you'll take Jack, my dog"
I said, "Wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man"
He said, "That's okay, boy, won't you feed him when you can"

Crazy Chester was a real person that Levon Helm knew in Fayetteville. Apparently he was the town eccentric

 

[starry_solo]

Shania Twain - that don't impress me much mentions Brad Pitt

 

[RedAngie]

at end of song

Health insurance rip off lying
FDA big bankers buying
Fake computer crashes dining
Cloning while they're multiplying
Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson,
Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson
You're all fakes
Run to your mansions
Come around
We'll kick your xxx in!

 

[Dan Murphy]

 

[E&Cmom]

Mentions Michelle Phieffer

 

[frog3101]

Tom McGraw by Taylor Swift
Walking in Memphis by Marc Cohn (Saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Ave.)

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

John Wayne by Lady Gaga

 

[sksjasams]

Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes

 

[SC Minnie]

Steve Perry's

"Captured By The Moment"

Where did he go
The man who said, "I have a dream"
Where have they gone
The four who sang to let it be
Jackie's alone
She lost him one November day
L.A. motel
One sad mistake took Sam away

Oh, remember then
Remember when

Captured by the moment
In the magic of a yesterday
Captured by the moment
And I hope it never fades away

Sweet Janis cried
Lord, won't you buy a Benz for me
Jimi was right
Castles made of sand slip to the sea

Oh, remember then
Remember when

Captured by the moment
In the magic of a yesterday
Captured by the moment
And I hope it never fades away
Captured by the moment
Oh, in the magic of a yesterday

Otis replied
A little tenderness we got to try
One open door
He tried to set the night on fire

Captured by the moment
In the magic of yesterday
Captured by the moment
And I hope it never fades away

Captured by the moment
Oh, in the magic of a yesterday