The Police namecheck James Brown and Otis Redding in “When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What’s Still Around.”
Ramones Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio? mentions Jerry Lee [Lewis], John Lennon, and T-Rex.
Ooh, reminds me of Roger Waters’ “It’s a Miracle”:
We cower in our shelters
With our hands over our ears
Lloyd Webber’s awful stuff
Runs for years and years and years
Originally Posted by as_u_wish
I may have missed this since I only skimmed…
Alan Jackson mentions Jimmy Buffett by name in “Five O’Clock Somewhere.”
Sorry, but I had to check…comin’ outta that corner now. 
It’s Five O’clock Somewhere - Song Lyrics
Performed by Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett
Written by Jim “Moose” Brown and Don Rollins
Reached #1 on the country charts for 8 weeks in 2003, & is the #4 country song of the year for 2003
On the Top 40 charts it reached #23
It set airplay records for six weeks during it’s summertime run in 2003
It has also earned two Grammy nominations, & won the Academy of Country Music award for best single of 2003
The song is the 30th #1 country hit for Alan Jackson
For Buffett this is the second highest charting song ever, second only to Margaritaville
“I want a man with lips just like Mick Jagger,
Rod Stewart’s hair, and Keith Richards’ stagger.”
– What Girls Want by Material Issue
"U-Li-La-Lu" by Poi Dog Pondering has this great couplet:
If I should die in a car wreck
May I have Van Morrison on my tape deck
John Cougar (Mellencamp)'s “Ain’t Even Done With the Night” mentions “Sam Cooke singin’ on the radio.”
Brain Eno, the album is “Taking Tiger Mountain - By Strategy”
The song is “The True Wheel”, and he mentions “The Modern Lovers” Wiki link= The Modern Lovers - Wikipedia
Regards
FML
Well, technically, I suppose, it’s not the band they hate, it’s their fans…
Three cans of water perverts me…
Was just listening to Bill Nelson’s Red Noise this morning…from “A Better Home in the Phantom Zone”:
Your relatives are white and all their children have record players
They listen to Tom Robinson, the Beatles and the Byrds and Leo Sayer
How did I forget The Rotters’ Sit On My Face Stevie Nicks?
Patti Smith mentions Jim Hendrix in “Rock n Roll Nigger”
Simon and Garfunkel mention Rolling Stones, Beatles, Phil Spector, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, and Art Garfunkel in “A Simple Desultory Philippic”
From Sweet Home Alabama
George Harrison, “Blood from a Clone”:
You need some oomph-papa, nothing like Frank Zappa
10cc, “Art School Canteen”:
Does getting into Zappa mean getting out of Zen?
The Clash, in Clash City Rockers mention “old Bowie”, Gary Glitter, and somebody named Prince Far-I.
T-Rex, Ballrooms of Mars mentions Bob Dylan, John Lennon, and Alan Freed.