Songs that depict real events...Now also, playlist on Spotify

[Deleted member 23424]

 

[HammerSandwich]

All true:

Great googly moogly! If we're going to include Mojo, we need Where the Hell's the Money:

In more serious matters, Dire Straits' Iron Hand about this insanity:

 

[BinkieHuckerback]

 

[BinkieHuckerback]

 

[BinkieHuckerback]

 

[Robin L]

 

[litemotiv]

U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday

Song about the 1972 Bloody Sunday incident in Derry where British troops shot and killed unarmed civil rights protesters.

Annihilator - Alison Hell

The story of a young Canadian girl named Alison in the 1980's who had recurring nightmares about monsters under her bed. Her parents would lock her in her room because she was waking them up crying about the nightmares, and continued doing so for a number of years. Without any help or support, eventually Alison had a complete breakdown and had to be institutionalized.

 

[Count Arthur]

Greensboro massacre - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Count Arthur]

 

[mhardy6647]

oh.
oh.
oh.
oh.

The Fab Four.
So much of their output was at least inspired by real, and sometimes quite banal, events (ahem) -- [ A ]Day in the Life, as it were

and much of the Lennon/McCartney content on White Album arose from their trip to India.

Sir Paul's reaction to seeing monkeys copulating in the streets

John's somewhat disdainful, retrospective take on the maharishi

And his similar take on Richard A. Cooke III (known as Rik), who was visiting his mother, Nancy Cooke de Herrera at Rishikesh.

And his threnody to/for Prudence Farrow (Mia's sister) who was having a bit of a hard time with life in Rishikesh.

 

[Raindog123]

 

[Freeway]

"Sacrifice" featuring Leonard Peltier

 

[Raindog123]

 

[Raindog123]

 

[Madeintooting]

Swan Arcade - Roll Alabama Roll.

 

[Raindog123]

 

[BinkieHuckerback]

...so pretty much every song is about a 'real event'

 

[Robin L]

...so pretty much every song is about a 'real event'

 

[mhardy6647]

Speaking of elegies a song by Bob Weir and John Perry Barlow about two very real people with almost the same name: Neal Cassady, another of the Dead's bizarre muses (for lack of a better word) who was made famous by Jack Kerouac in On the Road as Dean Moriarty -- and Cassidy Law (daughter of the Dead's roadie Rex Jackson & Eileen Law). The throughline from the Beats, Ginsberg, Kerouac, etc. through Ken Kesey, the CIA, ,the Acid Tests (and Tom Wolfe), and the Dead has long fascinated me. What a long, strange trip.

Grateful Dead Greatest Stories Ever Told - "Cassidy"

Official Site Of The Grateful Dead

www.dead.net

We forgot about the time: Fare thee well, John Perry Barlow

Buffalo is a Grateful Dead town. Off the top of my head, I can think of seven local bands that perform a Dead-exclusive repertoire several times a month, more often

buffalonews.com

 

[BinkieHuckerback]

Never understood the popularity of Beatles...