And the name Pink Floyd is taken from real people anyway (Pink Anderson + Floyd Council).
Billy Joel’s song The Ballad of Billy the Kid doesn’t mention the singer’s own name, but it’s self-referential. The first few verses are about the gunslinger (it starts “From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia/Rode a boy with a six gun in his hand/And his daring life of crime/Made him a lengend in his time/East and west of the Rio Grande”). The last verse is the same as the first, with the change “From a town known as Oyster Bay, Long Island/Rode a boy with a six pack in his hand.” Obviously both characters share the name Billy, so he’s making the connection. I wonder what Joel thinks about that line these days, given his repeated battles with alcoholism.
You don’t mean the Falco song, do you? “Rock Me, Amadeus”?
My favorite worst usage of a band/singer’s name in a song:
“I’m a Kid Rock it up and down your block”
Using your band name as a verb …
“We’re gonna Van Halen you up!”
And as an aside: I’m fascinated by the way hip-hop slang has contracted “I am going to” to merely “I’ma”.
And, to pick a nit, Motorhead was not the first band to do the song Motorhead. Lemmy wrote the song when he was with Hawkwind. I guess it is still technicly self refferential.
If that counts, does “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” count? What about Ringo’s song “I’m the Greatest,” in which he sings, “Yes, my name is Billy Shears”?
“The Road” by the Kinks is another career-summing-up sort of song.
Madness took their name from a Prince Buster song, which they recorded; later they had a song called “Madness Is All In The Mind.”
Then there’s “Hi, We’re the Replacements,” by—oops, no, that actually isn’t by the Replacements; it’s by They Might Be Giants. Never mind.
The South’s Gonna Do It Again (title similar to that anyway) by The Charlie Daniels Band lists 80% of the Southern Rock bands of the era (70’s) and has a line something like:
…and everybody down in Tennessee are digging Barefoot Jerry and the CDB…
Fishbone is Red Hot and Party at Ground Zero by Fishbone (party with the lyrics Fishbone is here to say… let’s havae a good time…)
Total Hate '95 - No Doubt (although the band mention was done by Bradley of Sublime… has the line Bradley’s rocking No Doubt Styley)
Josh Freese is Ready - Josh Freese (regaurledd of what it sounds like it’s not a rap song :))
Bad Religion - Bad Religion (although the song is not about the band)
Juke Joint Jezebel - KMFDM (KMFDM… doing it again…)
Be My Lover - Alice Cooper (she asked me why the singer’s name was Alice…)
“The Blimp” by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band mentions not only the band but the producer, Frank Zappa: “It’s the thing that’s gonna make Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band fat, Frank, it’s the big hit! It’s the blimp, Frank, it’s the blimp!”
And since I mentioned the Jefferson Airplane’s cover of a song thet mentions them, how about the Rolling Stones’ cover of “Like a Rolling Stone”?