Elvis is Everywhere - Mojo Nixon
George & Ira Gershwin - By Strauss
Danny Kaye – “Tchaikovsky”
Is it about Elvis, or is it about Johnny Rotton?
The Wonder Stuff - Mission Drive
The song “Mission Drive” was inspired by Wonder Stuff singer Miles Hunt’s fall out with best friend and former flatmate Clint Mansell of Pop Will Eat Itself.
Also… “Never Loved Elvis”.
Leonard Cohen’s “Chelsea Hotel #2”, about Janis Joplin
One about Don McClean (originally by Lori Lieberman):
Another one to add to the list for Elvis:
From the same album, Blind Lemon Jefferson:
Then, I’m not sure I’d say it’s about Lloyd Cole, exactly:
Not quite about him, but, let me rickroll you with
… Do you remember Rick Astley?
He had a big fat hit, it was ghastly …
I suspect he did provide inspiration for this song (which is decades old).
one person on the you tube vid said this :
This song’s loaded with references: * “frock coat”, from David Bowie’s “Queen Bitch” * “Rag Mama Rag”, a song by The Band * “Robert Zimmerframe” corresponds to Bob Dylan’s birth name: Robert Zimmerman * “excuse me while I kiss the sky” from Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” * “summer festival” is Woodstock I think one thing he’s saying is that rock had become a cultural institution, commodified and sanitized in the process (“the devil’s music exorcised”), and old rockers were complicit in this.
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"do you remember rock and roll radio: by the Ramones namedrops about 30 years of talent
Elvis Costello has been known to take one-off shots at john Lennon s perceived hypocrisy here and there like in “the other side of summer” obliquely he rants at other musicians in the song in the same manner also
there’s “when smokey sings” by ABC
Waylon Jennings hit - Bob Wills is Still the King. A lot of people have forgotten Bob. He had a huge following in the 40’s,50’s and early 60’s. He appeared in19 films.
Barbra Streisand
Boozoo, Thats Who?
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There are many versions of this out there, but these tributes must be near the top of list of referring to other artists. (It does take him a while to get there.)
Another version:
Springsteen’s Bobby Jean is widely considered to be a “love song” to his departing bandmate Steven Van Zandt (who, apart from his musical endeavors, would go on to star as consigliere Silvio Dante on The Sopranos).
Charles Mingus’s tribute to Lester Young:
Marc Cohn references (the ghost of) Elvis in Walking In Memphis
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Ben Folds’ “Late” is about Eliot Smith.
“Monkey” by Counting Crows namechecks Ben Folds. They also have a song called “If I Could Give All My Love to You (Richard Manuel Is Dead)” which mentions the member of The Band in the title.
In “Mister Jones,” Adam Duritz of Counting Crows says he wants to be Bob Dylan, and Elvis is mentioned in “Round Here.”
The Clash and 1977 with the refrain ‘No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones’
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