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SeaJayPea | 16:30 Mon 20th Sep 2010 | Music
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Hi, I'm looking for suggestions for songs that were written about real people.

Examples I already have are Man on the Moon by REM is about Andy Kaufman and Killing Me Softly, the Roberta Flack hit, is about Don MacLean.

Any other ideas?

Thanks a lot
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Michael Caine- Madness
James Dean- The Eagles
Robert DeNiro's waiting- Bananarama
Jackie Wilson Said- Dexy's Midnight Runners
16:41 Mon 20th Sep 2010
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The Smith's 'Suffer Little Children' is about Myra Hindley/the Moors Murders...
16:41 Mon 20th Sep 2010
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isn`t Layla by Eric Clapton about Patti Boyd? You haven`t done nothing by Stevie Wonder is about Ronald Reagan.
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This is very lazy of me

http://www.theanswerb...Question188064-2.html
16:45 Mon 20th Sep 2010
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Casey Jones (asteamin' at the throttle)
16:45 Mon 20th Sep 2010
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Lottie, I'd have done the same if I'd know about that thread. ;-)
16:48 Mon 20th Sep 2010
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John Kettley is a weatherman (and so is Michael Fish)
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Lovely Rita - The Beatles
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Lady in red - chris de burgh
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Shine on you crazy diamond....about Syd Barret
17:15 Mon 20th Sep 2010
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Isn't She Lovely by Stevie Wonder, which is about his daughter.
Sweet Gene Vincent by Ian Dury
17:17 Mon 20th Sep 2010
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Vincent...Don McClean about Van Gogh
17:19 Mon 20th Sep 2010
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scouting for girls: michaela strachan
Period Pains: Spice Girls (Who Do You Think You Are?)
17:22 Mon 20th Sep 2010
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the beatles - eleanor rigby
woman-john lennon(yoko ono)
andy warhol-david bowie
biko-peter gabriel
free nelson mandela-the special A.K.A
19:03 Mon 20th Sep 2010
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The Ballad of John & Yoko
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Mandela Day by Simple Minds
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Biko's drum...Christy Moore.
19:10 Mon 20th Sep 2010
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What can I say? This is brilliant. There's loads of stuff I can use for what I'm doing in here.

Thank you all so much
21:59 Mon 20th Sep 2010

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