Topic Playlist (Part 3)

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Fictional people in Beatles’ songs (Use full names)

  1. Billy Shears - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
  2. Desmond Jones - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
  3. Maxwell Edison - Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
  4. Eleanor Rigby - Eleanor Rigby
6602

Fictional people in Beatles’ songs (Use full names)

  1. Billy Shears - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
  2. Desmond Jones - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
  3. Maxwell Edison - Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
  4. Eleanor Rigby - Eleanor Rigby
  5. Rocky Raccoon - Rocky Racoon
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Fictional people in Beatles’ songs (Use full names)

  1. Billy Shears - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
  2. Desmond Jones - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
  3. Maxwell Edison - Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
  4. Eleanor Rigby - Eleanor Rigby
  5. Rocky Raccoon - Rocky Raccoon
  6. Loretta Martin - Get Back
6604

Fictional people in Beatles’ songs (Use full names)

  1. Billy Shears - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

  2. Desmond Jones - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

  3. Maxwell Edison - Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

  4. Eleanor Rigby - Eleanor Rigby

  5. Rocky Raccoon - Rocky Raccoon

  6. Loretta Martin - Get Back

  7. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Heath - Taxman

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Both were actually references to real people: British politicians Harold Wilson and Edward Heath.

6606

Fictional people in Beatles’ songs (Use full names)

  1. Billy Shears - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

  2. Desmond Jones - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

  3. Maxwell Edison - Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

  4. Eleanor Rigby - Eleanor Rigby

  5. Rocky Raccoon - Rocky Raccoon

  6. Loretta Martin - Get Back

  7. Lady Madonna - Lady Madonna

6607

Not in play, I was going to post Pablo Fanque, “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite”, but TIL that he was a real person

6608

Fictional people in Beatles’ songs (Use full names)

  1. Billy Shears - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
  2. Desmond Jones - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
  3. Maxwell Edison - Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
  4. Eleanor Rigby - Eleanor Rigby
  5. Rocky Raccoon - Rocky Raccoon
  6. Loretta Martin - Get Back
  7. Lady Madonna - Lady Madonna
  8. Bungalow Bill - The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill

A fictitious person, based on a real person named Richard Cooke, whom the Beatles met while in India. Reportedly shot and killed a tiger while traveling with his mother, then posed for pictures with his trophy.

6609

Fictional people in Beatles’ songs (Use full names)

  1. Billy Shears - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
  2. Desmond Jones - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
  3. Maxwell Edison - Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
  4. Eleanor Rigby - Eleanor Rigby
  5. Rocky Raccoon - Rocky Raccoon
  6. Loretta Martin - Get Back
  7. Lady Madonna - Lady Madonna
  8. Bungalow Bill - The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
  9. Mary Jane - What’s the New Mary Jane
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Fictional people in Beatles’ songs (Use full names)

  1. Billy Shears - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
  2. Desmond Jones - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
  3. Maxwell Edison - Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
  4. Eleanor Rigby - Eleanor Rigby
  5. Rocky Raccoon - Rocky Raccoon
  6. Loretta Martin - Get Back
  7. Lady Madonna - Lady Madonna
  8. Bungalow Bill - The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
  9. Mary Jane - What’s the New Mary Jane
  10. Sergeant Pepper - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Next: Literary references in songs

  1. “Lust for Life” by Iggy Pop - mentions Johnny Yen as well as other references to William S. Burroughs’ The Ticket that Exploded.
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Next: Literary references in songs

  1. “Lust for Life” by Iggy Pop - mentions Johnny Yen as well as other references to William S. Burroughs’ The Ticket that Exploded.
  2. “Circumstances” - Rush; “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” (the more things change, the more they stay the same) is a French idiom
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Literary references in songs

  1. “Lust for Life” by Iggy Pop - mentions Johnny Yen as well as other references to William S. Burroughs’ The Ticket that Exploded.
  2. “Telly-Taley Heart” by Tom Smith - tells Poe’s famed short story to the tune of Billy Ray Cyrus’s hit.

Tom’s version of “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” is about Frank Herbert’s Dune.

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Next: Literary references in songs

  1. “Lust for Life” by Iggy Pop - mentions Johnny Yen as well as other references to William S. Burroughs’ The Ticket that Exploded.
  2. “Circumstances” - Rush; “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” (the more things change, the more they stay the same) is a French idiom. The phrase was coined by French critic Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr in the January 1849 issue of his journal Les Guêpes (“The Wasps”).
  3. “Telly-Taley Heart” by Tom Smith - tells Poe’s famed short story to the tune of Billy Ray Cyrus’s hit.

housekeeping

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Next: Literary references in songs

  1. “Lust for Life” by Iggy Pop - mentions Johnny Yen as well as other references to William S. Burroughs’ The Ticket that Exploded.
  2. “Circumstances” - Rush; “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” (the more things change, the more they stay the same) is a French idiom. The phrase was coined by French critic Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr in the January 1849 issue of his journal Les Guêpes (“The Wasps”).
  3. “Telly-Taley Heart” by Tom Smith - tells Poe’s famed short story to the tune of Billy Ray Cyrus’s hit.
  4. “William Blake” - Daniel Amos; starts out with “Tyger, Tyger, burning bright” and pulls in plenty more quotes from the eponymous poet.
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Next: Literary references in songs

  1. “Lust for Life” by Iggy Pop - mentions Johnny Yen as well as other references to William S. Burroughs’ The Ticket that Exploded.
  2. “Circumstances” - Rush; “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” (the more things change, the more they stay the same) is a French idiom. The phrase was coined by French critic Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr in the January 1849 issue of his journal Les Guêpes (“The Wasps”).
  3. “Telly-Taley Heart” by Tom Smith - tells Poe’s famed short story to the tune of Billy Ray Cyrus’s hit.
  4. “The Raven” by The Allen Parson’s Project, a musical adaptation of Poe’s The Raven.
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Literary references in songs

  1. “Lust for Life” by Iggy Pop - mentions Johnny Yen as well as other references to William S. Burroughs’ The Ticket that Exploded.
  2. “Circumstances” - Rush; “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” (the more things change, the more they stay the same) is a French idiom. The phrase was coined by French critic Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr in the January 1849 issue of his journal Les Guêpes (“The Wasps”).
  3. “Telly-Taley Heart” by Tom Smith - tells Poe’s famed short story to the tune of Billy Ray Cyrus’s hit.
  4. “The Raven” by The Allen Parson’s Project, a musical adaptation of Poe’s The Raven.
  5. “Can’t Get It Out of My Head” - Electric Light Orchestra; name-drops four rebellious/conflicted heroes from European fiction and legend: “Robin Hood and William Tell and Ivanhoe and Lancelot; they don’t envy me.”
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Literary references in songs

  1. “Lust for Life” by Iggy Pop - mentions Johnny Yen as well as other references to William S. Burroughs’ The Ticket that Exploded.
  2. “Circumstances” - Rush; “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” (the more things change, the more they stay the same) is a French idiom. The phrase was coined by French critic Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr in the January 1849 issue of his journal Les Guêpes (“The Wasps”).
  3. “Telly-Taley Heart” by Tom Smith - tells Poe’s famed short story to the tune of Billy Ray Cyrus’s hit.
  4. “William Blake” - Daniel Amos; starts out with “Tyger, Tyger, burning bright” and pulls in plenty more quotes from the eponymous poet.
  5. “The Raven” by The Allen Parson’s Project, a musical adaptation of Poe’s The Raven.
  6. “Can’t Get It Out of My Head” - Electric Light Orchestra; name-drops four rebellious/conflicted heroes from European fiction and legend: “Robin Hood and William Tell and Ivanhoe and Lancelot; they don’t envy me.”

more housekeeping

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Literary references in songs

  1. “Lust for Life” by Iggy Pop - mentions Johnny Yen as well as other references to William S. Burroughs’ The Ticket that Exploded.
  2. “Circumstances” - Rush; “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” (the more things change, the more they stay the same) is a French idiom. The phrase was coined by French critic Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr in the January 1849 issue of his journal Les Guêpes (“The Wasps”).
  3. “Telly-Taley Heart” by Tom Smith - tells Poe’s famed short story to the tune of Billy Ray Cyrus’s hit.
  4. “William Blake” - Daniel Amos; starts out with “Tyger, Tyger, burning bright” and pulls in plenty more quotes from the eponymous poet.
  5. “The Raven” by The Allen Parson’s Project, a musical adaptation of Poe’s The Raven.
  6. “Can’t Get It Out of My Head” - Electric Light Orchestra; name-drops four rebellious/conflicted heroes from European fiction and legend: “Robin Hood and William Tell and Ivanhoe and Lancelot; they don’t envy me.”
  7. “Tales of Brave Ulysses” - Cream; references Homer’s The Odyssey
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Literary references in songs

  1. “Lust for Life” by Iggy Pop - mentions Johnny Yen as well as other references to William S. Burroughs’ The Ticket that Exploded.
  2. “Circumstances” - Rush; “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” (the more things change, the more they stay the same) is a French idiom. The phrase was coined by French critic Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr in the January 1849 issue of his journal Les Guêpes (“The Wasps”).
  3. “Telly-Taley Heart” by Tom Smith - tells Poe’s famed short story to the tune of Billy Ray Cyrus’s hit.
  4. “William Blake” - Daniel Amos; starts out with “Tyger, Tyger, burning bright” and pulls in plenty more quotes from the eponymous poet.
  5. “The Raven” by The Allen Parson’s Project, a musical adaptation of Poe’s The Raven.
  6. “Can’t Get It Out of My Head” - Electric Light Orchestra; name-drops four rebellious/conflicted heroes from European fiction and legend: “Robin Hood and William Tell and Ivanhoe and Lancelot; they don’t envy me.”
  7. “Tales of Brave Ulysses” - Cream; references Homer’s The Odyssey
  8. “What’s a Few Men” – Hunters & Collectors; reference in A B Facey’s “A Fortunate Life”.
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Literary references in songs

  1. “Lust for Life” by Iggy Pop - mentions Johnny Yen as well as other references to William S. Burroughs’ The Ticket that Exploded.
  2. “Circumstances” - Rush; “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” (the more things change, the more they stay the same) is a French idiom. The phrase was coined by French critic Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr in the January 1849 issue of his journal Les Guêpes (“The Wasps”).
  3. “Telly-Taley Heart” by Tom Smith - tells Poe’s famed short story to the tune of Billy Ray Cyrus’s hit.
  4. “William Blake” - Daniel Amos; starts out with “Tyger, Tyger, burning bright” and pulls in plenty more quotes from the eponymous poet.
  5. “The Raven” by The Allen Parson’s Project, a musical adaptation of Poe’s The Raven.
  6. “Can’t Get It Out of My Head” - Electric Light Orchestra; name-drops four rebellious/conflicted heroes from European fiction and legend: “Robin Hood and William Tell and Ivanhoe and Lancelot; they don’t envy me.”
  7. “Tales of Brave Ulysses” - Cream; references Homer’s The Odyssey
  8. “What’s a Few Men” – Hunters & Collectors; reference in A B Facey’s “A Fortunate Life”.
  9. “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Iron Maiden - based on the Samuel Coleridge poem.