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2.22am
21 March 2010
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O.K. I’ll try to start one of these things. I’m quite a newbie so …….
While listening to an oldies station, the song” Don’t Call Us” by Sugar Loaf came on and I was singing along, of course, and got to the line It sounds like ah John, Paul and George…. (almost all of the Beatles)
I started to come up with other mentions of the Beatles in song..
Never been to Spain by Three Dog Night.. ….The Seeker by The Who….A song in the musical,Hair, mentions George Harrison (Frank Mills) ..after that I am stumped!
Surely, there are alot more! Hope to see some!
Note by Ahhh Girl 18 March 2016: For the songs we have come up with so far see post 27 and post 191 and post 192
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3.19am
Oh, yes, Chollie… there are tons more. And welcome to the Fab Forum, btw! 
1) To start, there’s one of my all-time faves… David Bowie’s “Life on Mars”: Now the workers have struck for fame, ‘Cuz Lennon’s on sale again
2) “Rock ‘N’ Roll Radio” by the fabulous Ramones (who named themselves after Paul Ramon, Paulie’s stage name when the boys toured Scotland with Johnny Gentle): Will you remember Jerry Lee, John Lennon , T. Rex and Ol’ Moulty?
3) Mott the Hoople’s “All the Young Dudes” (written by Bowie): My brother’s back at home with his Beatles and his Stones, We never got it off on that Revolution stuff
4) “London Calling” by The Clash had the infamous line: Phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust (but they were huge Beatles fans, especially Joe Strummer) and their song “1977” had this line: I don’t care ‘cuz I’m not all there, No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones
5) There was a California band called 18 Visions that had a song called “Who the F— Killed John Lennon ?”
There are tons more. I’ll hand it over to the rest of the forum…
4.14am
13 November 2009
Offline Off the top of my head:
American Pie by Don McLean
Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny by Lemon Demon (The reference is actually to the 
, but you didn’t want Mr. Rogers killing The Beatles did you?)
Paul McCartney by The Scissor Sisters
That’s all I can think of for now.
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3.52pm
24 January 2010
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Off the top of my head:
American Pie by Don McLean
American Pie. Only just noticed it but the line says “And while Lennon read a book of Marx”
Anytime at all, all you gotta do is call, and I'll be there.
5.08pm
31 March 2008
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Do tribute songs count? I’m sure there were loads in the 60s. The best-known is probably Dora Bryan’s All I Want For Christmas Is A Beatle.
Last week I published this article about The Beatles holding the top five positions in the Billboard chart in 1964, and 12 singles in there altogether. I found out there were also two tribute songs: We Love You
Beatles by The Carefrees at 42, and A Letter To The Beatles by The Four
Preps at 85.
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7.12pm
5 February 2010
Offline Paul Simon’s “The Late Great Johnny Ace” is another one. He refers to “the year of the Beatles” in the chorus, and the entire last verse is about how he heard the news of Lennon’s death:
Not a bit like Cagney.
10.01pm
27 February 2010
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21 March 2010
Offline Awesome songs…just thought of another, Summer Rain By Johnny Rivers ….
All summer long, we spent dancin’ in the sand,
And the jukebox kept on playin’
Sargeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
I guess it kind of counts.
A restless wind inside a letterbox
12.20am
21 August 2009
Offline There’s a local band that’s getting quite popular in Canada called the Arkells- they have a song called John Lennon !
Quite a catchy tune too, I went to their concert and had a great time!
The chorus is as follows:
I’m John Lennon in ’67!
(Lennon and ‘seven’ somewhat rhyme… yes?)
They also have a great verse that goes like this:
She tells me her favourite song
and I say, “yeah, that’s a good one.”
She says it follows her around-
no s**t, it’s by the Beatles.
You can imagine how loud I screamed that whole verse while they played it! 
Tongue, lose thy light. Moon, take thy flight… see ya, George!
12.25am
13 November 2009
Offline I assume it’s available on iTunes and the like? I’ll have to check that out. 
I forgot to mention You Can Be My Yoko by The Barenaked Ladies.
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9.31am
31 March 2008
Offline Oh, how could I have forgotten that? I laughed so hard the first time I heard that.
I’m not able to embed it here, but the official video had shots of Yoko in it. I didn’t know that until now.
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1.49am
21 March 2010
Offline Well…..I had that “light bulb on” moment today! All of these songs are going to be in my next “mix tape”. Hopefully, I will be able to find them in I-tunes or some other legal down load site! I just can’t wait to compile these!
Thought of 2 more ….
Shooting Star…Bad Company
God ……………..John Lennon
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2.15am
21 August 2009
Offline In case any one wanted to listen to the Arkells…
prepare to have this song stuck in your head for the next 24 hours!
Tongue, lose thy light. Moon, take thy flight… see ya, George!
1.22am
18 March 2010
Offline In his comeback album, John Fogerty sings in “I Saw it on TV”:
We gathered round to hear
the sound comin’ on the little screen,
The grief had passed, the old men laughed, and all the girls screamed
‘Cause four guys from England took us all by the hand,
It was time to laugh, time to sing, time to join the band.
5.09am
13 November 2009
Offline Oh! That reminds me – We Didn’t Start the Fire by Billy Joel – British Beatlemania.
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2.04pm
31 March 2008
Offline And it reminded me too of You Were Right by Badly Drawn Boy:
“And I remember doing nothing on the night John Lennon died…”
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3.04pm
21 March 2010
Offline This one dates me…Ball of Confusion by The Temptations — 1970
Fear in the air, tension everywhere
Unemployment rising fast,
The Beatles’ new record’s a gas
And the only safe place to live is
On an indian reservation
And the band played on
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3.23pm
13 November 2009
Offline The Monkees – Randy Scouse Git
“The four Kings of EMI are sitting stately on the floor.”
Micky Dolenz wrote this after a trip to England where he met The Beatles (yes, one of The Monkees actually wrote this one). The title isn’t a reference to a Beatle but the four Kings could only mean one thing… 
4.46pm
13 November 2009
Offline Aw, you changed your avatar. It’s a funny picture of Ringo at least.
Anyway, my brother pointed out the Frank Zappa song, Oh No:
Oh no
I don’t believe it
You say that you think you know
The meaning of love
You say love is all we need
You say
With your love you can change
All of the fools
All of the hate
I think you’re probably
Out to lunch
No one said it always would be complimentary. 
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11.34am
21 May 2010
Offline I’m surprised no one’s mentioned “I Just Shot John Lennon ” by The Cranberries. One of my friends is a massive fan of theirs, so of course she had to tell me when she found out I loved The Beatles. The whole song is basically about his death.
I'd like to be, under the sea, in an octopus's garden, with you.
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