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Old 23-07-2008, 02:41 PM
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Sue Lawley (I Feel Sue Lawley - The Police)? Are you having a laugh!

"I gave up drugs when the doctor told me I had 6 months to live" Keith Richards
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Edie Sedgewick..... Edie by The Cult Sonic Temple album
John Sinclair .... John Lennon Sometime In New York album
Jesse James ..... Cher
Don Bradman ..... Paul Kelly (someone in Oz might pick up on that one)
Ned Kelly... by Paul Kelly too, but also by Johnny Cash
Rueben Carter.....Bob Dylan in Hurricane
Martin Luther King.....U2 in Pride In The Name Of Love
Marilyn Monroe .... by Elton John
Rita Coolidge....by Joe Cocker in Delta Lady
"One appears to have dropped one's monocle in the soufflee"

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Look at Me Im Sandra Dee from Grease

Marlene Dietrich
Zizi Jarmain
Balmain all from Where do you go to my lovely

Elvis Presley from Shania Twain -Best thing about being a woman

There's a guy works down our chip shop swears hes Elvis -Kirsty McColl

John Wayne is Big Leggie -Hayzie Fantasy

Ra Ra RAsputin Boney M

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Noel Coward
Einstein and more from Ian Dury -There aint half been some Clever Bastards

Wee Willly Harris Reasons to be cheerful -Ian Dury
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Old 24-07-2008, 07:29 AM
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A few more


Rosa Parks ....in "Sister Rosa" by The Neville Brothers
Nelson Mandela ..... in "Mandela Day" by Simple Minds
Meher Baba ...... in "Baba O'Riley by The Who
Steven Biko ..... in "Biko" by Peter Gabriel and, susequently, Simple Minds
Waylon Jennings ..... in "Driving Wheels" by Jimmy Barnes
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Old 25-07-2008, 03:02 PM
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Greta Garbo
Rudolph Valentino
Bela Lugosi
Bette Davis

All in the one song by The Kinks
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First by Leonard Cohen, then by Jennifer Warnes....with Leonard Cohen
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Leo G Carroll
Michael Rennie
Jeanette Scott

All name checked with their SF film appearances in Science Fiction Double Feature by Richard O'Brien from The Rocky Horror Show. Another song from the show also mentions Fay Wray.
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Fay Wray also mention in Black Grapes's In The Name Of The Father

Along with King Kong and Neil Armstrong
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"Rambling Jack Elliott," by sixties folksters The John Herald Band.

"George Jackson," and "Joey," by Dylan.

A sliightly off the wall track is a song called ,"Norman Normal" by Peter Paul and Mary, the song starts with chit chat at a party with hip young things name dropping singers and writers who were flavour of the month, in 1966 I cant make many of the names out but I can clearly hear the name of singer-songwriter Fred Neil.

On their 1978 reunion album Mary Travers name checks Norman Mailer on a toe curlingly embarassing song called, "Miss Rheingold." not their finest hour.
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John Lennon
Yoko Ono
Timothy Leary,
Tommy Smothers,
Bobby Dylan,
Tommy Cooper,
Derek Taylor,
Norman Mailer,
Alan Ginsberg,
Hare Krishna


Give Peace A Chance
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Old 26-07-2008, 07:45 AM
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Pocahontas and Marlon Brando; both by Neil Young
Judy Collins in "Suite:Judy Blue Eyes" by Crosby, Stills and Nash
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Old 26-07-2008, 07:48 AM
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Jesus Christ, there have been quite a few about him.
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Indeed there are.

Lennon penned one entitled "God" on the rather stark "John Lennon" album. He then went on to mention his son, Sean, in "Beautiful Boy" which he dedicated to him. Evidently he wrote it while the two of them were on holiday together
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