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Kirsty MacColl - There’s A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He´s Elvis
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wmhp2 wrote:siht fo gnah eht tog tnevah i

hawkwind - motorhead

motorhead - vibrator

vibrators - stiff little fingers
So, SLF need to make a song called Hawkwind...


Manic Street Preachers - "Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier"
Eddie Cochrane - "Three Stars" (about Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper's premature deaths - ironically relased postumously after Cochran's own death)
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson

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wmhp2 wrote:siht fo gnah eht tog tnevah i

hawkwind - motorhead

motorhead - vibrator

vibrators - stiff little fingers
If I'm not mistaken the song Motorhead pre-dates the band and the same is true for the song Stiff Little Fingers, right?
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U2 - Angel of Harlem
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revbob wrote:
wmhp2 wrote:siht fo gnah eht tog tnevah i

hawkwind - motorhead

motorhead - vibrator

vibrators - stiff little fingers
If I'm not mistaken the song Motorhead pre-dates the band and the same is true for the song Stiff Little Fingers, right?
Maybe that's why he wrote the first line backwards?
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson

"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
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Nick Cave (Johnny Cash) - Muddy Waters
Neil Young _ Hey Hey My My (Elvis - Johnny Rotten)
The Clash - White Man in Hammersmith Palais
The greatest legacy he leaves is that he made a generation of people think for themselves. He didnt quite manage to change the world but he changed the way people looked at it. It's a sad day - but what a life
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Toots & the Maytals: "Desmond Dekker Came In First"
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson

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Wolter wrote:
revbob wrote:
wmhp2 wrote:siht fo gnah eht tog tnevah i

hawkwind - motorhead

motorhead - vibrator

vibrators - stiff little fingers
If I'm not mistaken the song Motorhead pre-dates the band and the same is true for the song Stiff Little Fingers, right?
Maybe that's why he wrote the first line backwards?
Extra points for you I didn't even try to decode that.
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Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Don't Worry Desmond Dekker
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead

Pex Lives!
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Johnny B. Goode by Chuck Berry (and Roll Over Beethoven as well, now that I think about it).
Got a Rake? Sure!

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Bob Dylan - Blind Willie McTell
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U2 - Elvis Ate America
U2 - Elvis Presley And America

And if you consider Yoko Ono a musician, John Lennon has a bunch of songs about her.
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JennyB wrote: (and Roll Over Beethoven as well, now that I think about it).
best song ever
We reach the parts other combos cannot reach
We beach the beachheads other armies cannot beach
We speak the tongues other mouths cannot speak
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Madness - The Prince (written about ska legend Prince Buster, not the purple ponce)
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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Johnny Thunders- London Boys (about the Sex Pistols)
The Clash- Janie Jones
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