Also from Thompson (She Twists the Knife Again):
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Did I miss “Moves Like Jagger” in the thread?
Pretty much every Beastie Boys song in existence name-drops a celebrity somewhere in the lyrics.
“Piazza, New York Catcher” by Belle and Sebastian has a couple of throwaway lines about Piazza, and a couple of other baseball references that aren’t directly named (Willie Mays and Sandy Koufax) but is otherwise not about baseball or any of those players.
Lloydd Cole’s Rattlesnakes mentions Eva Marie Saint and Simone De Beauvoir
Kid Rock’s Wasting Time says he’s "in it to win it like Yzerman’ and he has ‘more time than Morris Day’.
Slow Turning by John Hiatt talks about the kids in the car banging like Charlie Watts.
Two men sit in the corner of a diner
Both of them look quite a bit like Carl Reiner
“New Routine” - Fountains of Wayne
Bertie Higgins’ song Key Largo has this line, “We had it all/Just like Bogie and Bacall…”
Lotte Lenya gets a mention in Mac The Knife.
Dude, Neil Young wasn’t insulting a compass direction, he was insulting “Southern Man” for being dumb racist whip crackers. If you weren’t a dumb racist whip cracker he wasn’t insulting you. If you were, he was. At the time Young wrote the song, the racists had all the power and were the ones promoting the “Southern way of life”. Non-racist Southerners weren’t hiding behind the way of life crap then and aren’t now. Martin Luther King Jr and his friends were Southerners. Young wasn’t talking about them. And we all know it.
The whole second verse is about him:
Well I heard mister Young sing about her
Well, I heard ole Neil put her down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don’t need him around anyhow
It may be about the state, but it’s also unequivocally about Neil Young.
The South deserved it, and still does, though the specifics may have changed. How about that Pearl Harbor sneak attack on democracy by the Virginia Legislature while a key Dem was away at the inauguration?
That’s what happens when your husband is the composer… 
Blue Oysters Cult Me 262 mentions Goering, Hitler and Willi Messerschmmidt.
lyrics
Did you see the shirt Ronnie Van Zandt wore for the Street Survivors album cover?
http://www.thepalette.us/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Street-survivorsWeb.jpg
They Loved Neil, best publicity ever. And Neil stopped performing Southern Man, because he realized there were racists everywhere. But, Alabama is a Mother..F..r of a song.
Bob Dylan’s The Highlands (or is it just Highlands?) also mentions Neil:
“I’ve gotta turn up the sound…”
I might be wrong, but I think the song is about Elvis and Phillips, so Carl Perkins would be the one for this thread.
Damn good song. Damn good band.
All I Need Is the Girl from Gypsy and Billy Joel’s Still Rock and Roll to Me mention Beau Brummell at one point.
Jimmy Buffett, Mañana - Anita Bryant
Kate Bush’s “Blow Away” is about a bizarre after-death jam. It mentions “Minnie” (Ripperton), “Moonie” (Keith Moon), (Sid) “Vicious,” Buddy Holly, Sandy Denny and (Marc) Bolan.
Her “There Goes A Tenner,” a song about a burglary gone very wrong, mentions “Edward G” (Robinson).
Yeah, but wasn’t it Bobby Darin who started the tradition of name-checking previous singers of that song in unauthorized lyric additions? I don’t know enough about Kurt Weill to say definitively.
“Shush girl, shut your lips, do the Helen Keller and talk with your hips.”
– “Don’t Trust Me,” by 3oh!3
Given that the song is about music and muscians of the '60’s, I would guess Mclean is referencing John Lennon, rather than Vladimir Illyivich. Still, since “Lennon” and “Lenin” are homophones, it’s a twofer.
One Night in Bangkok:
Tea, girls, warm, sweet
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham Suite.