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"Songs with a bit of history"

Can anyone think of any songs with references to well known moments in history - ie ABBA singing about Waterloo.

Radiohead- Where I End and You Begin

Relevance: "Dinosaurs roam the earth."


Guns and Roses- Civil War

Relevance: Duh.


Lightning Seeds- Three Lions

Relevance: 1966 etc.

down wrote:
> There'll be a few Vietnam songs, methinks.

REM - Orange Crush

down wrote:
> Song - Video Killed the Radio Star
>
> Historical relevance - the start of MTV

That's why they made it?
I thought the only relevance between teh pair is that it was the first song MTV played.

Song - Video Killed the Radio Star

Historical relevance - the start of MTV

JFH wrote:
> Meka Dragon wrote:
> This is a good start, enough material to keep me going. Thanks.
>
> What exactly is this all for?

Covering a history lesson. I'm not, but it's a piece of writing I'm working on.

Why do the research myself when you lot are a wealth of information!

Meka Dragon wrote:
> This is a good start, enough material to keep me going. Thanks.

What exactly is this all for?

[URL]http://www.k-state.edu/english/nelp/vietnam_music.html[/URL]

Also, that world war song -

"we'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when"

etc.

That one

This is a good start, enough material to keep me going. Thanks.

There's a Jay-Z song called Dead Presidents, if that counts. It's about money, rather than actual dead presidents, though.

There'll be a few Vietnam songs, methinks.

Iron Maiden sing about Jesus in Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Not strictly an event in history but it does have some history and it's the nearest my Brain's going to get at this time