Friday Night is Music Night: Songs About Famous People

[Richard A Thackeray]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nANIzuIvW5o

Two versions,
This was also overlaid on a film, shot at Fountains Abbey, & Brimham Rocks, it certainly looks like them

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmwMhjbThKg

Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire

View: https://youtu.be/eFTLKWw542g

Excellent, due to the chronological order

 

[Beebo]

View: https://youtu.be/j-5yn3v3N8A

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPOIS5taqA8

 

[smutchin]

You can all stop now, I win the thread with this one...

Boney M - Rasputin

View: https://youtu.be/kvDMlk3kSYg

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Contentious inclusion, maybe
Purported to have been named after the Pilots mother

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vMBp6iUJzk

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Vincent & Cochran

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afkfos_oQro

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

………… Faithful??

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVPx4zalkiM

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Borgia?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuezNswtRfo

 

[smutchin]

First Aid Kit - Emmylou

View: https://youtu.be/Hi5A9OCAyIk


Even more poignant for being performed in front of its subject. I can't watch this clip without welling up myself.

 

[classic33]

The De Valera song - Seán Brady

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eWxiTlsqP84

 

[Smokin Joe]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FtjbiJGnJw

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_72-7TFHEnU

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

All about himself

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAkfmIrWp-8

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FtjbiJGnJw

Excellent, I still have my 45 of this!!!
Pictured here, amongst a few other notables
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[Smokin Joe]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdGMkYFTTrg

 

[philk56]

 

[philk56]

And another one from Neil: