YOU NAME BOPPER – 20 Songs In Which The Artist Name Checks Another

September 12, 2017

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Note: With mention of Solomon Burke, James Brown, Gene Chandler, Doctor John, Vince Taylor, Chet Baker, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Muddy Waters, Jackie Wilson and all his literacy references SAMTIMONIOUS.com acknowledges Van Morrison may have already cornered this market.

Madonna:
Of no interest to Jackson Browne – apparently.
  1. ‘Maybe The Beach Boys have got you now,’  – Neil Young: Long May You Run;
  2. ‘I don’t worry about Madonna or the next thing she might do,’ – Jackson Browne: My Problem Is You;
  3. ‘Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Led Zeppelin and Free, they hit the road,’ – The Kinks: The Road;
  4. ‘I’ve drunk myself blind to the sound of old T. Rex,’ – The Who: You Better You Bet;
  5. ‘No Elvis, Beatles or Rolling Stones in 1977,’ – The Clash: 1977;
  6. ‘I’m listening to Neil Young, I’m gonna turn up the sound,’ Bob Dylan: Highlands;
  7. ‘A stranger came up and asked me if I’d heard John Lennon had died.’ Paul Simon: ‘The Late, Great Johnny Ace;
  8. ‘My brother’s at home with his Beatles and his Stones,’ Mott The Hoople: All The Young Dudes;
  9. How’s your album, how’s your tour, how’s Don Henley, how’s Glenn Frey,’ Joe Walsh: Shut Up;
  10. ‘Nothing but blues and Elvis,’ Steely Dan: FM
  11. ‘Sinatra was swinging, all the drunks they were singing,’ The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl: Fairytale of New York;
  12. ‘Wilson Pickett said: In the Midnight Hour,’ Van Morrison: Real Real Gone;
  13. ‘I’ve seen the Rolling Stones, forgot about Johnny Rotten, saw The Who back in ’69,’ John Mellencamp: You Got A Stand For Something;
  14. ‘No one gives a s**t but Jackson Browne,’ Randy Newman: A Piece of the Pie;
  15. ‘Well, I hope Neil Young will remember,’ Lynyrd Skynrd: Sweet Home Alabama;
  16. ‘I saw Jesus on the plane or maybe it was Elvis,’ Don Henley: If Dirt Were Dollars;
  17. ‘I asked Bobby Dylan, I asked The Beatles,’ The Who: The Seeker;
  18. ‘They don’t give a s**t Keith Moon is dead, is that exactly what I thought I read?’ Pete Townshend: Jools and Jim;
  19. ‘But it was Four Tops all night with encores from stage right,’ The Clash: White Man in Hammersmith Palais;
  20. ‘The king is gone but he’s not forgotten, is this the tale of a Johnny Rotten?’ Neil Young: Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black);
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