Rock "samples" in rock songs

The guitar solo in Huey Lewis’ “I Want A New Drug” has a quick snippet from Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze.”

Joe Walsh has a song called “Shut Up” in which he plays riffs from the Kinks’ “You Really Got Me,” Jimi’s “Purple Haze,” and the Eagles’ “Life in the Fast Lane.”

The intro to the Beach Boys’ “Fun, Fun, Fun” sounds like Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode.”

For the opposite effect, Lifter Puller’s song “Roaming the Foam” samples “Push It” by Salt-N-Pepa.

The Au Pairs used the line “There’s only room for one and here she comes, here she comes” in “Dear John.”

The Beatles included the opening line of “Sorrow” (“With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue”) in “It’s All Too Much.”

Mike Keneally recreated a brief snippet from XTC’s “Mayor of Simpleton” on “Day of the Cow”–not actually a sample, but you’d be hard pressed to tell the difference.

Nazareth “Shanghai’d in Shanghai” - at the 2-minute mark there’s the lyric “we’ve got a gig in Arizona second billing to the Rolling Stones” and then the “Satisfaction” riff plays.

Since, apparently, we’re counting musical hat tips as “sampling,” well, every Electric Light Orchestra album has loads of nods to the Beatles.

The end of “Shangri-La,” for instance features a bit of the piano intro to “A Day in the Life,” for instance.

And that song, of course, also has the line:

“My Shangri-La has gone away // Faded like the Beatles on Hey Jude”

Along the lines of “not a sample, but definitely a nod”: Yes’s “I’ve Seen All Good People” features a counterpoint chorus of “All we are saying is give peace a chance”, as well as the line “Send an instant karma to me”.

At the end of “All you need is love” among other things is sung by Paul "Loves you yeah yeah yeah.

Dada’s California Gold samples the main riff from War’s* Low Rider*.

At the end of Alladin Sane you can hear Bowie sing the verse of “on Broadway”

And “Yesterday.”

In a real sample example…

In Rush’s instrumental ‘Limbo’ apropos of pretty much nothing they inserted ‘Whatever happened to my Transylvania Twist’ from Monster Mash. It’s kind of jarring the first time you hear it.

Garbage Stupid Girl sampled the drum intro from Train in Vain by The Clash
Garbage also “interpolated” (that’s the word they used in the album credits) Don’t Worry Baby by the Beach Boys in their song Push It

Van Halen Jamie’s Cryin’ tweaks the lyrics to The Beatles’ If I Fell:
Beatles:
Cause I’ve been in love before
And I found that love is more
than just holding hands

Van Halen:
Now Jamie’s been in love before
And she knows that love is more
than one night stands

As does the final verse of Genesis’ “The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway” (the song, not the album. The album’s final song, “It”, ends with a shout out to “It’s Only Rock and Roll” by the Rolling Stones).

I shoulda thought of that!

How about jimi Hendrix doing Wild Thing and interpolating “Strangers in the night”?
I’m sure there are lots of hendrix quotations.

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is loaded with musical/lyrical quotes. In addition to the two you mentioned, there are references to “Runaway,” “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head,” “It Won’t Be Long” (Beatles), “Purple Haze,” “Needles and Pins,” and no doubt others I can’t think of off the top of my head.

Surprised that no one has mentioned one of the more notorious examples.

The Rolling Stones sued the clothes off of The Verve for Bittersweet Symphony

John Entwistle’s “I Believe in Everything” has a quote from “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” at the end.

That’s a standard term for including a second (or third) song as part of the performance. Elton John interpolated “My Baby Left Me” and “Get Back” in his live version of “Burn Down the Mission,” for instance.

Frankie Valli’s “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You” includes a second song, “Going Out of My Head.”

They also sing a bit from “So you wanna be a rock and roll star” and sample their own cover of “This Flight Tonight” in “Telegram”.

Thought of another one. The The’s Armageddon Days Are Here (Again) starts with the drums from Ballroom Blitz by Sweet.

Are you ready Jesus?
Buddha?
Muhammad?
All right fellows, let’s go!

A bit more subtle, from the same album: “My Size” ends with a quote of Entwistle’s own “Boris the Spider.”