songs about historical events/figures

[raskolnikov]

I love songs that have a historical reference. Some of my favourites songs that reference historical events or figures:

Scorpion - Winds of Change
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Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
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Shona Laing - Glad I'm not a Kennedy
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Bob Dylan - Desolation Row
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[Bomber32]

Pride (In The Name of Love) - U2
Nostradamus - Al Stewart
Jesse James - Bruce Springsteen
Biko - Peter Gabriel
God - John Lennon
Vincent - Don McLean

 

[AndSmithMustScore]

The Fureys - Green Fields of France

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The Dubliners - Fields of Athenry

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Dropkick Murphys - Warriors Code(Mickey Ward, The Fighter)

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[Plugger35]

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[FlyingBurittoBro]

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[Plugger35]

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[Normy132]

Bob Dylan - Hurricane

Disappointing nobody has mentioned that yet.

 

[bungalow_bill]

Seconds by The Human League

About the assassination of JFK

All day
Hiding from the sun
Waiting for the golden one
Waiting for your fame
After the parade has gone

Outside was a happy place
Every face had a smile like the golden face
For a second
Your knuckles white as your fingers curl
The shot that was heard around the world
For a second

It took seconds of your time to take his life
It took seconds

 

[yirra_kurl]

Billy Joel's We didn't start the fire; lists everything (major events) that had happened since he was born i believe....

Great song

 

[The_Flying_Egg]

Ohio - Crosby Stills Nash & Young. About the student protestors killed by the
National Guard. Great song

 

[Donners]

Geez, it took that long for We Didn't Start the Fire?

How about Gordon Lightfoot's epic The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald:

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[NitroFan]

Bob Dylan - Hurricane

Disappointing nobody has mentioned that yet.

Does fiction count?

 

[Dan Moody]

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sad story about the 1985 welsh miners strike

 

[Ron The Bear]

Alexander The Great - Iron Maiden
Hail Caesar - AC/DC
Rasputin - Boney M
Errol - Australian Crawl
Candle In The Wind - Elton John​

 

[EnglishWarrior]

Midnight Rambler - Rolling Stones
Philby - Rory Gallagher (although not about him, just liking himself to him)

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[dumb]

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r budd dwyer televised suicide remix
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pete wilson / proposition 187
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jack kevorkian is cool
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could possibly mention
pink floyd - shine on you crazy diamond
sonic youth - tunic
jane's addiction - ted... just admit it

 

[FlyingBurittoBro]

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sad story about the 1985 welsh miners strike

for some reason i can't see which vid you've put up.

is it this one?

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[Cthublhu]

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[Gough]

Joey by Dylan. Story of gangster Joey Gallo.
Shipbuilding by Elvis Costello. Written about the Falklands War.
Most songs written by Billy Bragg in the 80's were about that bitch Thatcher.

 

[Bomber Bears]

Angel of Death by Slayer I think fits.

 

[Teffy]

Geez, it took that long for We Didn't Start the Fire?

How about Gordon Lightfoot's epic The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald:

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Superb song.

One of THE great ballads.

 

[chesson]

Rasputin - Boney M

Candle In The Wind - Elton John​

Brilliant songs.

Peter Tosh - Legalize it at the Peace & Love concert Jamaica. Bob Marley's many tracks from that same show.

 

[Teffy]

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[Teffy]

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[Bazzar]

1982 Vic Rail strike when the Cain Government closed down small stations on the Overlander , and Tom Waits was Australia and drove to one of the closed stations at Serviceton. Great story and as usual great stuff from Tom Waits.

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