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How many songs can you come up with that contain a name of a band/group in the lyrics.

eg Imagine by John Lennon mentions The Brotherhood of Man
16:12 Wed 30th May 2012
 
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Kick out the style, bring back the jam

(Sowing the seeds of love) Tears for fears


Living in a box
Living in a box



We are The Monkeys
It wasn't the Rasperies- the song I was thinking was by Reunion I recall- Life is a Rock (but the radio rolled me?)
Roxette

Dr Feelgood
Weezer - Buddy Holly
ABC- When Smokey Sings
Bowling For Soup - 1985

Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on MTV

Also mentions Duran Duran, Limp Bizkit, Van Halen, Motley Crue and Ozzy :-)
Nightshift- The Commodores
Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire mentions quite a few including Elvis, Dylan, Beatlemania, Buddy Holly...
The Motown Song by Rod Stewart mentions The Miracles and The Temptations.
That Don't Impress Me Much by Shania Twain mentions Brad Pitt. It also mentions Elvis, John Wayne, Tarzan and Captain Kirk at the end of the song.

Left To My Own Devices by Pet Shop Boys mentions Che Guevara and Debussy.

Hearthammer by Runrig mentions Yuri Gagarin.
Dinner With Gershwin by Donna Summer
Reunion, Life is A rock (But The RAdio Rolled Me)

B.B. Bumble and the Stingers, Mott the Hoople, Ray Charles Singers
Lonnie Mack and twangin' Eddy, here's my ring we're goin' steady
Take it easy, take me higher, liar liar, house on fire
Locomotion, Poco, Passion, Deeper Purple, Satisfaction
Baby baby gotta gotta gimme gimme gettin' hotter
Sammy's cookin', Lesley Gore and Ritchie Valens, end of story
Mahavishnu, fujiyama, kama-sutra, rama-lama
Richard Perry, Spector, Barry, Archies, Righteous, Nilsson, Harry
Shimmy shimmy ko-ko bop and Fats is back and Finger Poppin'

Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
Gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me (whoa whoa whoa whoa)
Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie

FM, AM, hits are clickin' while the clock is tock-a-tickin'
Friends and Romans, salutations, Brenda and the Tabulations
Carly Simon, I behold her, Rolling Stones and centerfoldin'
Johnny Cash and Johnny Rivers, can't stop now, I got the shivers
Mungo Jerry, Peter Peter Paul and Paul and Mary Mary
Dr. John the nightly tripper, Doris Day and Jack the Ripper
Gotta go Sir, gotta swelter, Leon Russell, Gimme Shelter
Miracles in smokey places, slide guitars and Fender basses
Mushroom omelet, Bonnie Bramlett, Wilson Pickett, stop and kick it

Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
Gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me (whoa whoa whoa whoa)
Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie

Arthur Janov's primal screamin', Hawkins, Jay and
Dale and Ronnie, Kukla, Fran and Norma Okla
Denver, John and Osmond, Donny
JJ Cale and ZZ Top and LL Bean and De De Dinah
David Bowie, Steely Dan and sing me prouder, CC Rider
Edgar Winter, Joanie Sommers, Osmond Brothers, Johnny Thunders
Eric Clapton, pedal wah-wah, Stephen Foster, do-dah do-dah
Good Vibrations, Help Me Rhonda, Surfer Girl and Little Honda
Tighter, tighter, honey, honey, sugar, sugar, yummy, yummy
CBS and Warner Brothers, RCA and all the others

Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
Gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me (whoa whoa whoa whoa)
Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie

spoken:
Listen--remember, they're playing our song!
Rock it, sock it, Alan Freed me, Murray Kaufman, try to leave me
Fish, and Swim, and Boston Monkey,
Make it bad and play it funky.
(Wanna take you higher!)
I used it as a Quiz Round last year, hit artists mentioned in the lyrics to UK hit singles. Here are the 10;
1. You make the sun shine brighter than DORIS DAY
2. Like STING I'm tantric
3. Where you keep your ROLLING STONES records
4. And the orchestra were playing all CHUCK BERRY's greatest tunes
5. BRENDA LEE's comin' on strong
6. Tired of being compared to damn BRITNEY SPEARS
7. We passed the hash pipe and played our DOORS tapes
8. They didn't have ICE CUBE so he bought VANILLA ICE
9. I need TV when I got T REX
10. She's a good girl, crazy 'bout ELVIS
Hi NPQ-

1. You make the sun shine brighter than DORIS DAY- Wham
3. Where you keep your ROLLING STONES records - A guess- Doctor Hook?
4. And the orchestra were playing all CHUCK BERRY's greatest tunes. ELO
5. BRENDA LEE's comin' on strong -GOLDEN EARRING
9. I need TV when I got T REX - Mott the Hoople

Hi haggisdj- thanks for the Reunion lyrics- that's the song I was thinking of in my earlier reply
Just realised NPQ- Peter Sarsted?

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