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I'm not talking about songs that just name someone (there's more than I could ever list). I'm referring to songs that name someone famous or well known. For instance the Beastie Boys "name check" Abe Vigoda in "Posse in Effect".

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Paul Thorn's, "Ain't Livin' in Sin No More"
The Lyrics:
They hired a part time preacher that fixes chain saws on the side.
The boom box played "Endless Love" and Alabama's "Feels So Right".
She said "I do" and he did too.
She threw her bouquet in the air.
They drove away in a black Firebird with Minute Rice in their hair.
Who They Mention:
Country band Alabama
Submitted by: Tania WYEP
Blur's, "Globe Alone"
The Lyrics:
Who only eats at the new brasserie
Who only ever gets merry
Who wouldn't be seen at bed time
Without putting Calvin Kleins on
Who They Mention:
Calvin Klein
Submitted by: Tania WYEP
Blur's, "Country House"
The Lyrics:
Now he's got morning glory, life's a different story
Everything going jackanory
In touch with his own mortality
He's reading Balzac, knocking back Prozac
It's a helping hand
That makes you feel wonderfully bland
Who They Mention:
French Novelist Honoré de Balzac
Submitted by: Tania WYEP
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds', "There She Goes, My Beautiful World"
The Lyrics:
Karl Marx squeezed his carbuncles
while writing Das Kapital
And Gaugin, he buggered off, man,
and went all tropical
While Philip Larkin stuck it out
in a library in Hull
And Dylan Thomas died drunk in
St. Vincent's hospital
Who They Mention:
Karl Marx
painter Paul Gaugin
poet Philip Larkin
poet/writer Dylan Thomas
Submitted by: Tania WYEP
Chuck Prophet's, "There She Goes, My Beautiful World"
The Lyrics:
John Willmot penned his poetry
riddled with the pox
Nabakov wrote on index cards
at a lectern, in his socks
St. John of the Cross did his best stuff
while imprisoned in a box
And Johnny Thunders was half alive
When he wrote Chinese Rocks
Who They Mention:
poet John Willmot
author Vladimir Nabakov
saint St. John of the Cross
musician Johnny Thunders
Submitted by: Tania WYEP
Chuck Prophet's, "American Man"
The Lyrics:
American Man
In the Georgetown Bars
With the Prozac kids
And the Oliver Stones
And the tabloid smiles
Who They Mention:
director Oliver Stone
Submitted by: Tania WYEP
Chuck Prophet's, "Barely Exist"
The Lyrics:
Now that kid might grow up to play in the symphony
or be the next LeBron James
And that beats dying slowing in the heat
on a cattle farm, a face without a name
No two ways about it.
Who They Mention:
NBA star LeBron James
Submitted by: Tania WYEP
Hockey's, "Song Away"
The Lyrics:
This is who can love me you know, this ain’t no Roxy Music
Who They Mention:
Roxy Music
Submitted by: Paul
Kevin Johnson's, "Rock & Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life)"
The Lyrics:
Bought all the Beatles records, sounded just like Paul
Bought all the Chuck Berry`s, 78`s and all
Who They Mention:
Beatles, Paul McCartney, Chuck Berry
Submitted by: Paul
Miley Cyrus', "Party In The U.S.A"
The Lyrics:
And the Britney song was on.
Who They Mention:
Britney Spears
Submitted by: Sean

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