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Subject: 80's songs about famous people or true events
Written By: whistledog on 04/14/06 at 11:28 pm
Feel free to add more. Here's a few I thought of ...
Cover Girl - Prism (1980)
The late Dorothy Stratten
All Those Years Ago - George Harrison (1981)
The late John Lennon
Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny) - Elton John (1981)
The late John Lennon
Lunatic Fringe - Red Rider (1981)
The murder of John Lennon
The Best is Yet to Come - Bryan Adams (1983)
The late Dorothy Stratten
True - Spandau Ballet (1983)
Motown and Mavin Gaye
Missing You - Diana Ross (1984)
The late Marvin Gaye
Michael Caine - Madness (1984)
Michael Caine
The Medal Song - Culture Club (1984)
The late Frances Farmer
Nightshift - The Commodores (1985)
The late Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson
An Englishman in New York - Sting (1987)
Quentin Crisp
When Smokey Sings - ABC (1987)
Smokey Robinson
Angel of Harlem - U2 (1988)
The late Billie Holiday
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles (1989)
The late Elvis Presley
Subject: Re: 80's songs about famous people or true events
Written By: lleelee on 04/15/06 at 12:37 am
Candle in the Wind by Elton John :-[
Subject: Re: 80's songs about famous people or true events
Written By: whistledog on 04/15/06 at 12:39 am
Candle in the Wind by Elton John :-[
That was a 70's song, but it did re-chart as a Live version in 1987
Subject: Re: 80's songs about famous people or true events
Written By: oingo_fan on 04/15/06 at 1:16 am
The grand-daddy of them all, Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" (1989) :)
Subject: Re: 80's songs about famous people or true events
Written By: Skippy on 04/15/06 at 2:44 am
U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love) 1984
Subject: Re: 80's songs about famous people or true events
Written By: 80sTrivMeister on 04/15/06 at 6:31 am
Marlena on the Wall by Suzanne Vega (Marlena Dietrich)
Vogue by Madonna (she mentions a great deal of famous people in this song, but it is from 1990...)
Subject: Re: 80's songs about famous people or true events
Written By: Satish on 04/15/06 at 11:38 am
"Winds of Change" by the Scorpions
- about the fall of the Berlin Wall and the re-unification of Germany
Subject: Re: 80's songs about famous people or true events
Written By: CatwomanofV on 04/15/06 at 2:14 pm
Sunday, Bloody Sunday & New Years Day-U2 about the Irish troubles. "Bloody Sunday" was January 30, 1972.
Cat
Subject: Re: 80's songs about famous people or true events
Written By: lleelee on 04/17/06 at 10:56 pm
I always heard Rosanna Arquette had two songs allegedly written about her. Lucky Chick
Rosanna by Toto
In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel
Subject: Re: 80's songs about famous people or true events
Written By: Schillingfan on 04/18/06 at 6:05 pm
City Of Night (Berlin) by Peter Schilling
- It's an obvious refrence to what the city and or Germany was going through in the 80s
Subject: Re: 80's songs about famous people or true events
Written By: Nostalgic on 04/19/06 at 2:13 am
The song "Robert De Niro's Waiting" by Bananarama. I'm not sure what the song's about though, or why they mention De Niro.
Subject: Re: 80's songs about famous people or true events
Written By: Watcher29 on 04/19/06 at 9:01 am
"Lost behind the Wall" by Dokken - about life behind the Iron Curtain in the 80s.
God, I don't remember the last time I heard someone say the words "Iron Curtain". We heard it all the time back then.
Subject: Re: 80's songs about famous people or true events
Written By: VintageAngelMe on 09/07/09 at 2:30 pm
Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
and
Skid Row - 18 and Life