Songs About Notable Deceased Persons
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Time to bring Red Hot Chili Peppers into the mix.
-Tearjerker from One Hot Minute is about Kurt Cobain.
-Transcending from the same album about River Phoenix.
-Knock Me Down/My Lovely Man about their original guitarist Hillel Slovak.
-Eddie from their recent Return Of The Dream Canteen is about Eddie Van Halen
This is not including Venice Queen (By The Way)/Brendan's Death Song (I'm With You) about important people in the LA music scene who aren't recognized nationally. Dreams Of A Samurai from The Getaway while never officially confirmed, the lyrics to me heavily suggest it's about Scott Weiland.
This alone puts that silly notion that "all they do is sing about California" to bed.
Some others:
-Hollie Cook has a song called Ari Up which is a tribute to the lead singer of The Slits (who Hollie played with in a reformed version decades later)
-Donna The Buffalo have a song called Dr. King about MLK Jr.
-Temple Of The Dog's Say Hello 2 Heaven about Andy Wood
-Tearjerker from One Hot Minute is about Kurt Cobain.
-Transcending from the same album about River Phoenix.
-Knock Me Down/My Lovely Man about their original guitarist Hillel Slovak.
-Eddie from their recent Return Of The Dream Canteen is about Eddie Van Halen
This is not including Venice Queen (By The Way)/Brendan's Death Song (I'm With You) about important people in the LA music scene who aren't recognized nationally. Dreams Of A Samurai from The Getaway while never officially confirmed, the lyrics to me heavily suggest it's about Scott Weiland.
This alone puts that silly notion that "all they do is sing about California" to bed.
Some others:
-Hollie Cook has a song called Ari Up which is a tribute to the lead singer of The Slits (who Hollie played with in a reformed version decades later)
-Donna The Buffalo have a song called Dr. King about MLK Jr.
-Temple Of The Dog's Say Hello 2 Heaven about Andy Wood
End on a Hinote
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Falco - Rock Me Amadeus (Mozart)
Bryan Adams - The Best Was Yet to Come (Dorothy Stratten)
Heroin Girl - Everclear (Art Alexakis' brother and girlfriend)
Bryan Adams - The Best Was Yet to Come (Dorothy Stratten)
Heroin Girl - Everclear (Art Alexakis' brother and girlfriend)
archangel2
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Piccasso was alive when the song came out
I'll Be missing you, in my books is just and out and out cover song---there is sampling and then there is what they did
Mescaleroman
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My google searches showed he died April of 73 and the Modern Lovers album it was off of was released in 76.
Didn't delve any further to see it was recorded in 72.
archangel2
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My google searches showed he died April of 73 and the Modern Lovers album it was off of was released in 76.
Didn't delve any further to see it was recorded in 72.
Pablo Picasso (song) - Wikipedia
72 released in 76
I disagree, the music was used & they utilized the chorus, but verses/lyrics are new & follow a different cadence as well as the interpolation of "I'll Fly Away"...a cover would have utilized most of the original lyrics...
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Arlo Guthrie performing "Deportee (Plane Crash At Los Gatos)", a song written by his father about a plane crash that killed a group of migrant farm workers who were being deported ("The radio says they were just deportees").
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Teflon Don
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Avenged Sevenfold's St. James about their late drummer Jimmy Sullivan.
They also did Betrayed about Dimebag Darrell's murder.
They also did Betrayed about Dimebag Darrell's murder.
End on a Hinote
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I remember I went to the gym in the wee hours of the morning a few years back and this song was playing while I was doing shoulder presses. Killed the vibe to say the least.
frisco
Some people claim that there's a woman to blame...
barriers
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If it makes you feel any better Puff Daddy didn't secure the rights properly and Sting receives 100% of the song royalties
Diddy clarifies $5K daily royalty payments to Sting for '90s hit "I'll Be Missing You"
The price tag of Diddy sampling the Police's "Every Breath You Take" has people talking.
Bad Taz - Eternal Respect to Liza N'Eliaz
Liza N'Eliaz was regarded in France and Belgium as the Queen Of Terror in the 90s, playing her aggressive form of hardcore techno there. She would join her fellow Brit compatriot Lee Aaron (of Greater Than One) by dying by brain cancer.
Liza N'Eliaz was regarded in France and Belgium as the Queen Of Terror in the 90s, playing her aggressive form of hardcore techno there. She would join her fellow Brit compatriot Lee Aaron (of Greater Than One) by dying by brain cancer.
