Friday night is songs with true stories behind them night.

[vernon]

I Don't Like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats was about a true case of a schoolgirl going postal because she did not like going back to school on a Monday.

Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel was inspired by a newspaper article about a man whose relationship had failed and he killed himself in an hotel.

Enola Gay by OMD... speaks for itself.

This posting is useless without video links

 

[Noodley]

I'll offer a "virtual" pint to anyone who can get the audax link...

Nobody?

 

[slowmotion]

Steve Biko. His wiki entry....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Biko
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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ncVyxQRw70[/media]

 

[Flying_Monkey]

There are many Gil Scott-Heron songs one could choose for this theme, but I'll just pick one, We Almost Lost Detroit, about a near-thing nuclear accident in the 70s:

 

[mrandmrspoves]

Great song.....interesting version by the Dandy Warhols.

 

[Fnaar]

Let Him Dangle by Elvis Costello deals with the tragic story of Derek Bentley



The Bentley story (also in the film Let Him Have It) and also the song by erstwhile Dexys, the Bureau.

 

[germanicdogman]

Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival

inspired by David Eisenhower, the grandson of President Dwight David Eisenhower who married Julie Nixon, the daughter of President Richard Nixon, in 1968.[5] John Fogerty told Rolling Stone: "Julie Nixon was hanging around with David Eisenhower, and you just had the feeling that none of these people were going to be involved with the war.

 

[mrandmrspoves]

Let Him Dangle by Elvis Costello deals with the tragic story of Derek Bentley



The Bentley story (also in the film Let Him Have It) and also the song by erstwhile Dexys, the Bureau.

.....also on a hanging theme - not just a song, a whole album! Fraprot Contraption as my less than enamoured friend calls Fairport Convention and Babbacombe Lee ....the man they could not hang.

http://m.youtube.com/#/playlist?lis...p_uri=/playlist?list=PL68EF8C8F867235AD&gl=GB

 

[Salad Dodger]

As someone who is learning to play the bouzouki, an inspiration is Mr Steve Knightley, of the band "Show of Hands". Here's one of his songs, which he plays on bouzouki, and is based on a true incident....


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyiGT8JMiR0


"The Dive"