8 Rock Songs Written About Real People

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  • @luvmusicutb
    @luvmusicutb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Could of also had:
    Julian Lennon - Lucy
    Stereophonics - Local Boy In The Photograph
    The Beatles - Julia, Something, Lucy InThe Sky With Diamonds
    Nirvana - Heart-shaped Box
    Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven
    The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar
    The Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
    Etc..........

  • @robnorrisradio
    @robnorrisradio 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    More than a few missing from this list:
    Queen: "Death On Two Legs (Dedicated To.........)" is about the band's first manager, Norman Sheffield. Also, "Life Is Real (Song for Lennon)" is the band's tribute to the fallen Beatle.
    Elton John: "Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)" is another (and more well known) tribute to John Lennon.
    Alannah Myles: "Black Velvet" is just one of many songs about Elvis Presley.
    Don McLean: "American Pie" is a tribute to Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, who all died in a plane crash in Iowa, in 1959.
    The Knack: "My Sharona" is dedicated to lead singer Doug Fieger's then-girlfriend Sharona Alperin, who appears on the single's cover. They broke up a few years later, and now she is a realtor in Southern California.

    • @sephirothii13
      @sephirothii13 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was going post "Death on Two Legs" as well, Queen even got sued over that one

    • @emerje0
      @emerje0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tommy Cash's Six White Horses is about the assassinations of John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F Kennedy, in that order.

    • @robnorrisradio
      @robnorrisradio 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@emerje0 Lots of tributes like that. I've come up with more songs about real people:
      Commodores: "Nightshift", About Jackie Wilson and Marvin Gaye. "Three Times a Lady", about Lionel Richie's mother.
      Diana Ross: "Missing You", about Marvin Gaye.
      Righteous Brothers: "Rock and Roll Heaven", about (among others) Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Otis Redding, Jim Croce, Janis Joplin, and Bobby Darin.
      Queen: "No-One But You (Only the Good Die Young)", recorded by the three surviving members of the band, a tribute to their late frontman, Freddie Mercury.
      The Police: "Every Breath You Take", about Sting's ex-wife.
      U2: "The Sweetest Thing", dedicated to Bono's wife, when he forgot her birthday.
      Fleetwood Mac: The entire bloody "Rumours" album was about various members of the band. Also, the song "Tusk" was specifically about Mick Fleetwood's dong.
      I could go on...

    • @13myrrh
      @13myrrh 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Also, Queen's Love of My Life and You're My Best Friend.

    • @zatoth13
      @zatoth13 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      American Pie is actually a detailing of the time between the death of Holly, Valens and The Big Bopper and 1970 or 1971, evidenced by citing Janis Joplin’s death. It keeps coming back to the death of the three. Other characters featured include Elvis, Bob Dylan, the Byrds, The Rolling Stones and the Beatles as well as the festivals Woodstock and Altamont.’

  • @miked7295
    @miked7295 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Shine on You Crazy Diamond.

  • @memyopinionsche6610
    @memyopinionsche6610 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    While John Lennon gave us imagine.
    Paul McCartney gave us LIVE AND LET DIE.
    TRULY THE BEST ROCK ANTHEM!

    • @miked7295
      @miked7295 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Monkberry Moon Delight is truly the most heart-warming song ever. So emotional, I cry everytime.

  • @gordonhotchkiss646
    @gordonhotchkiss646 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hey Jude the Beatles. It was written by Paul McCartney even though it is officially credited as a Lennon/McCartney song it was written solely by McCartney. They had a deal when they were in the Beatles any song written by either one or both of them was credited as a Lennon/McCartney song. Well anyway McCartney wrote the song, because at the time John Lennon had just left Julian McCartney''s mum to be with Yoko Ono. Paul wrote the song to tell Julian who was his godson that he would always be their for him no matter what.

  • @davidfitzpatrick4254
    @davidfitzpatrick4254 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    8 Spoonman SoundGarden
    7 Candle in the Wind Elton John
    6 Rooster Alice in Chains
    5 Layla Derek and the Dominoes
    4 Pride U2
    3 Polly Nirvana
    2 How Do You Sleep John Lennon
    1 Jeremy Pearl Jam

  • @Tiki-doll
    @Tiki-doll 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ballad of Emmett till remains one of bob Dylan’s hunting song’s and is about the death of the boy emmet till

  • @MizakiFelix
    @MizakiFelix 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wasted Time by Skid Row. It was about Steven Adler‘s addiction from Guns N’ Roses and how much it hurt Skid Row’s Sebastian Bach and the rest of them

  • @emerje0
    @emerje0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Really thought Filter's Hey Man Nice Shot would be on the list since it's a fairly popular one that people often get wrong. The song is about the suicide of disgraced Pennsylvania state treasurer R. Budd Dwyer who shot himself in the head through the mouth during a press conference the day before being sentenced for accepting bribes. People erroneously say that this event was broadcast live and led to the use of tape delays in news broadcasts, but it was recordings of the suicide that were shown in full in news reports, not live broadcasts, and lead to the censorship of graphic footage in American news reports.

  • @RantingThespian
    @RantingThespian 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Also from The Beatles:
    You Won't See Me - Jane Asher
    I'm Looking Through You - Jane Asher
    We Can Work It Out - Jane Asher
    If I Needed Someone - Pattie Boyd
    For No One - Jane Asher ... again!
    Dear Prudence - Prudence Farrow
    Martha My Dear - Linda Eastman (soon to be Linda McCartney)... 's dog
    Sexy Sadie - the Maharishi
    Julia - John's mother Julia
    Hey Jude - Julian Lennon
    Something - Patty Boyd or Krishna (George has given both as the inspiration in 2 different accounts)
    I Want You (She's So Heavy) - Yoko Ono
    Her Majesty - Queen Elizabeth II
    Two Of Us - Paul & Linda
    Let It Be - Paul McCartney's mom (Mary McCartney) who came to him in a dream
    And I'll just stop right there.

    • @Monkeypole
      @Monkeypole 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Aww no, didn't know 'I want you...' was written about Yoko, what a bummer.
      Also I always though We Can Work It Out was about Paul and John's relationship, especially as they both sing it. But I suppose it was written before the real tension era.

    • @RantingThespian
      @RantingThespian 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Monkeypole Who the heck did you think he wrote it about? Did to think he was really hungry and wanted a big sandwich? He was madly in love with Yoko and probably started writing it with her literally next to him. Pretty much every love song he wrote from the White Album onwards was about Yoko. Especially Oh Yoko (Imagine) and Dear Yoko (Double Fantasy).

    • @Monkeypole
      @Monkeypole 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@RantingThespian Wouldn't call it a love song, it's dark as fuck. Hence why I thought it was possibly about heroin as Yoko had introduced it to him around this time. So don't be such a fucking smart arse ya prick.

    • @RantingThespian
      @RantingThespian 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Monkeypole 😳 Wow. How about you develop a sense of humor.

    • @RantingThespian
      @RantingThespian 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Monkeypole To be accurate, John and Yoko started snorting heroin during the Get Back sessions (later renamed Let It Be). It was around the time of recording Abbey Road when he and Yoko were going through withdrawal. The only song that he wrote specifically about heroin was Cold Turkey.

  • @davidfinley7392
    @davidfinley7392 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    “Too Many People” preceded and instigated “How Do You Sleep?”

  • @DenniWintyr
    @DenniWintyr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How do you not have Death of Two Legs, by Queen, & Megalomania by Black Sabbath? Both being biting indictments of each band's former managers

  • @haroldskinner5914
    @haroldskinner5914 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Slightly wrong about "How Do You Sleep." McCartney's "Too Many People" was written and released before "How Do You Sleep" and that song was Lennon's reaction to it. In fact Lennon mistakenly thought the Ram album had a number of critical swipes at himself as well as against George Harrison and Ringo. For instance he thought "3 Legs" ("My dog he got 3 legs/But he can't run") was a reference to the 3 other Beatles. He thought "Dear Boy" was about him (it was actually about Linda McCartney's first husband), and he also thought the smelly friend in "Smile Away" might have been about him too.

    • @rhabdob3895
      @rhabdob3895 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Whaaat? An alcoholic chronic asshole thought songs were about him? Weird.

  • @memyopinionsche6610
    @memyopinionsche6610 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Me spoonman was the greatest Chris Cornell scream.
    I would say.
    Jesus Christ pose.
    That scream could peel paint of the walls.

  • @tinotica
    @tinotica 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Alanis Morisette-You Oughtta Know
    Carly Simon- You’re So Vain
    Rolling Stones- Brown Sugar
    Beatles- Blackbird
    Beatles- Lovely Rita
    Beatles- Hey Jude

  • @jtshark8815
    @jtshark8815 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    No love for Gaberial's Biko? and when talking about the Beatles, Harrison's "While my guitar gently weeps" about his relationship with both Lennon and Paul

  • @thehootsforce4201
    @thehootsforce4201 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sabaton must hold the record for songs about real people, persons or historical events throughout history (Indy Neidell's videos with Sabaton are worth checking out if you love history).
    I wish I had Indy Neidell as my history teacher when I was at school then I may have ended up as a historian.

    • @MikeJBeebe
      @MikeJBeebe 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You fucking rule, Sir, by referencing Indy Neidell! +1 internets to you!

  • @brianartillery
    @brianartillery 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Nothing surprises me about John Lennon. Musical genius he might have been, but he was also a genuinely unpleasant person, who hit both his wives, and once nearly beat someone to death. George Harrison, on the other hand, was possibly the world's most reasonable man, concerning the whole Eric/Patti thing. To borrow from a comedian, you get the feeling that if there was an award for the world's most reasonable man, George would have won it - but if you asked to see the trophy, George wouldn't have it - he was so reasonable, that he'd have given it to the runner-up.

    • @pauloz9359
      @pauloz9359 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Then again, listen to the blistering George Harrison solo on "How Do You Sleep"

    • @RantingThespian
      @RantingThespian 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      John never laid a hand on Yoko. He also did not beat his first wife (Cynthia), either. Both John and Cynthia have discussed the time he did get violent with her. John said he hit her, Cynthia said it wasn't that violent. Doesn't matter, though. He was in the wrong, and there was no excuse, he admits to it. In fact, the line in Getting Better was John's doing, and he said that in an interview.
      The stuff about John beating Cynthia, Yoko, Julian, and Sean comes from the book The Lives Of John Lennon. A book that really should be called the LIES Of John Lennon. Paul, George, Ringo, George Martin, Yoko, Cynthia, Harry Nilson, Bob Gruen, Neil Aspinall, Mick Jagger, Elton John, and so many others have come out and refuted the claims the book made. Hell, Harry Nilson even talked about how the author tried to get him drunk so he could get dirt on John.
      Was John perfect? Fuck no. Did he do bad things? Fuck yes. Was he violent in his youth? Of course! John himself has admitted to all of this. He was a troubled imperfect man. He even regrets writing How Do You Slerp?, saying that the song said so much more about him at that moment than anything about Paul.
      Make sure to do your research before making such claims.
      If you doubt me, go read Cynthia's book.

  • @e8412561
    @e8412561 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    ...I've often envisaged Princess Diana with a pearl necklace...

  • @paradox7743
    @paradox7743 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Led Zeppelin Living Loving Maids(she's just a woman)-About a certain Promoter's Aging Groupie Wife.
    Aerosmith Sweet Emotion- Steven Bitching About Joe's Headstrong Girlfriend
    Deep Purple Smoke on the Water-Famous Frank Zappa concert that ends in horrific Fire/Funky Claude
    Black Sabbath Changes-Ozzy laments about his Breakup w/ his First Wife

  • @fallofmanbrand
    @fallofmanbrand 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    great video bro

  • @curtislindsey1736
    @curtislindsey1736 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    You could do a top 10 on songs that Pearl Jan wrote about real people/situations. W.M.A., Even Flow, Alive, In hiding, Lukin, ect

  • @mattmanjgigs1229
    @mattmanjgigs1229 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The byrds song he was a friend of mine is about John f Kennedy his late career and the awful day in dallas

  • @MikeJBeebe
    @MikeJBeebe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. You've heard of Pink Floyd, right? They were kind of a thing and stuff. I dunno, maybe look at Wikipedia or something.

  • @johnk6123
    @johnk6123 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue (just figured I'd put one I didn't see anyone say yet, I don't think) thanks for the great video again guys and gals :)

  • @emerje0
    @emerje0 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's amazing how many people get Jeremy wrong just from watching the music video. I was in high school when the video came out and everyone in school thought it was about a mass shooting with Jeremy standing in the front of the class and shooting his classmates. A few years later I would hear that again after the Columbine shooting. But just watching the video it was clear that Jeremy had shot himself just from the blood splatter and the looks on the other students faces. Seemed obvious, but it took the internet becoming popular for the truth to finally be clear, though I'm sure there's a lot of people who still think it's about a mass shooting.

  • @nath_2107
    @nath_2107 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It’s heavy implied that Bloc Party’s ‘Helicopter’ is about George Bush

  • @zatoth13
    @zatoth13 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jeremy was actually about two people: the first the student who committed suicide, but the “background” story character is about a person Vedder knew personally.
    Add to that that several of the songs on Grace Slick’s Dreams album are about her then husband.

  • @Shred_The_Weapon
    @Shred_The_Weapon 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great list, and I do enjoy most of the songs are on it despite not really being a grunge band). I got to know something though. How could you mention the Beatles and not include “Dear Prudence”? It was written about Mia Farrow‘s sister who was in their Indian entourage.

  • @Esto_es_un_Poema
    @Esto_es_un_Poema 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Chain - Fleetwood Mac

  • @nikolaradovanic3345
    @nikolaradovanic3345 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wasn't it Bernie who changed to lyrics to candle in the wind ?

    • @CapHowdy
      @CapHowdy 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You would think so.

  • @drmorqWarrenProject
    @drmorqWarrenProject 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Something? by George Harrison of the Beatles.. about the same woman Patti Boyd... that Layla was written about? And Wonderful Tonight.. also written about Patti Boyd.. by Eric Clapton... there are so many.. its difficult to come up with a list.

  • @natrixxvision6997
    @natrixxvision6997 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Let it Be. Maybe I’m Amazed. Ronnie. Donna. Love of My Life. Wish You Were Here. Strange Fruit. Hallelujah. Ohio. Walk On. Rehab. Sexy Sadie. Woodstock. Almost Cut my Hair. Mr. Crowley. Lenny. Pride and Joy. Love struck Baby. Starfucker. Let’s Make the Water Turn Black. God Save the Queen.

  • @classicrockcollector1279
    @classicrockcollector1279 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Eric Clapton- Bell Bottom Blues, Layla, Wonderful Tonight
    George Harrison- Something
    All about the same Person
    Fleetwood Mac- Go Your Own Way(not about Pattie Boyd, but Stevie Nicks)

  • @etangbose4755
    @etangbose4755 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Angle of death?

  • @manna6947
    @manna6947 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ooooh Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly" about Don McLean (American Pie)

  • @carolinelowe6304
    @carolinelowe6304 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Can you guys do one of those last man standing trivia thing

  • @VladGLX
    @VladGLX 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jane's Addiction - Jane Says

  • @EDsavant
    @EDsavant 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey man nice shot

  • @karabearcomics
    @karabearcomics 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I would say Pink Floyd's "Arnold Layne" could have been included. Syd was inspired by news stories of a man who was snatching women's clothing from clotheslines, and the song is relevant in being the band's first hit single (sure, it struggled in the US, but it was a massive hit in the UK). There's a rumor that their next single, "See Emily Play" is about a particular woman who came to the psychedelic scene, but I don't think that's been confirmed.
    And, of course, all their later stuff the rest of the band wrote about Syd himself.

  • @miserablemozz8714
    @miserablemozz8714 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Actually, Taupin rewrote the words of Candle in the Wind, rather than Reg. By accident too: Taupin thought Elton asked him to write a song like CITW for Diana, but Bernie thought he said to write new lyrics for the song, thus CITW97 was inflicted upon us.

  • @webgem14
    @webgem14 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    U2’s Pride is on here but not Stevie Wonder’s Happy Birthday?

  • @cubingwithbemfly2780
    @cubingwithbemfly2780 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    What was said about Jeremy is true, but Eddie Vedder said in an interview that it was also inspired by a troubled kid that he went to school with. He combined elements of both into the song.

  • @only1smally
    @only1smally 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Might be a bit too niche but angel of death by slayer?

  • @ferdiahunt9899
    @ferdiahunt9899 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    How do you sleep was one of the first true disstracks 15 years before rappers started making them

  • @mgthestrange9098
    @mgthestrange9098 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can someone tell this girl how we pronounce words like due, tube, studio and news on this side of the Atlantic? I can’t help noticing it and being distracted by it.

  • @So_Toasty
    @So_Toasty 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    lol That caveman face Duane Allman makes always makes me lose it.

  • @RantingThespian
    @RantingThespian 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Too Many People came out on Ram ... a whole 5 months before the Imagine album!
    How Do You Sleep? was Lennon's REPLY to Paul's Too Many People. Imagine even came with a postcard mocking the Ram cover art.
    Wow, you really messed up that one.

  • @lucasneuhaus6570
    @lucasneuhaus6570 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jeremy was about two different people. One was the kid mentioned and one was a kid Eddie went to school with.

  • @jesselindquist1794
    @jesselindquist1794 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The drums drowned out Spoonman’s solo... really a shame

  • @kristopherloviska9042
    @kristopherloviska9042 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Could have also had roughly 10,000,000 other songs on this list. Most songs are written about someone.

  • @jezuzman78
    @jezuzman78 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    That is not what spoonman is about lol. Its about shooting heroine. "Come on lock me off" "all my friends are brown and red"

  • @overdsemedia
    @overdsemedia 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    You forgot two things: 1) The controversy about the first JEREMY video, and 2) that, Aerosmith's, JANIE'S GOT A GUN. You can look and see for yourself.

    • @carolinelowe6304
      @carolinelowe6304 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wait there’s a song by the band Squeeze that is called Annie get your gun

  • @AnxiousAaron616
    @AnxiousAaron616 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    NIN's Starf***ers was a swipe at Courtney Love

  • @So_Toasty
    @So_Toasty 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Did this lady just say that SoundGarden's lyrics often had no meanings? *Shakes head* When you only know two songs from a brilliant band...

  • @Alvious
    @Alvious 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I swear I thought Eddie Vedder was singing "Jeremy's smoking grass today".

  • @spookerredmenace3950
    @spookerredmenace3950 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Spoon man was also about the guy was a drug user

  • @CapHowdy
    @CapHowdy 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lennon, for all his talk about peace and love, he was actually a pretty shitty human.

  • @paulstirk4964
    @paulstirk4964 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    How is Candle in the Wind a "rock" song?

  • @M1CAE1.
    @M1CAE1. 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Saw this, and let's just say if Layla wasn't there someone would be getting shot, I'm not American so that actually is illegal!

  • @zerostarinc
    @zerostarinc 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Change the title,
    Songs you already know are about real people.
    Not a single piece of NEW INFORMATION

  • @craighill4709
    @craighill4709 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yet again you get things the wrong way round. John wrote how do you sleep as retaliation to slights from Paul on his ram album
    Please check facts before you make a video

  • @CGjchill
    @CGjchill 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    First