Songs based on real events?

[Fassa Albrecht]

How many songs can TB think of that are based on actual events?

I can think of one- Suffer Little Children, by the Smiths. It's about the Moors murders.

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Water".

[Fassa Albrecht]

Originally Posted by Alvaro Martín Gómez A.

Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Water".

Never knew that..

[kxt]

hurricane - bob dylan
ballad of ira hayes - johnny cash

[amandolin]

PiL's "Annalisa," though it's very much "based on" the exorcism of Anneliese Michel. As a post-punker you prolly know that already...

[weary hobo]

There's a million of 'em but "The Wreck of the Edumund Fitzgerald" comes to mind first.

[lavmonga]

Ohio - Neil Young
Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2

[Zooberwerx]

BOC's "Then Came the Last Days of May"

Beatle's "Ballad of John and Yoko"

Zooberwerx's "How Come the F***** Phone Bill Is So High This Month?!?"

Okay, I made the last one up.

Riis

[Deluge Of Sound]

Originally Posted by kxt

hurricane - bob dylan

+1

Also by Dylan: The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carol.
http://www.bobdylan.com/#/songs/lone...hattie-carroll

[RTL]

Here's a relatively unknown (except maybe to my fellow Canadians) :

"When This Is Over" by Hayden

It's about Susan Smith - that nutjob who drowned her kids in the car.

[JimmyM]

Originally Posted by Zooberwerx

BOC's "Then Came the Last Days of May"

Hold it...this is a song about people making a drug deal in the desert, then they disappear and aliens are suspected of abducting them. I think this whole business about it being a true story is bunk made up by BOC to scare the audience

I am interested in hearing your phone bill song, though...I can relate to that.

[tlwaps]

"Polly" by Nirvana. It's about a girl up in the Seattle area that was kidnapped, raped and tortured.

"Angel's Son" by Sevendust/Snot. It's about the death of Snot's lead singer Lynn Strait.

There's tons of them.

[GianGian]

Red Sector A by Rush.
Half of the Beatles catalogue.

[lavmonga]

another one came to mind:

Limousine by Brand New.

Don't know if this was big news outside of Long Island but a few years back this drunk driver hit a limo on the way home from a wedding and killed the flower girl and driver... terrible. That's what the song's about.

[fleabee]

Rush-The Manhattan Project{development and use of the atomic bomb WWII}

[funkybass4ever]

Originally Posted by fleabee

Rush-The Manhattan Project{development and use of the atomic bomb WWII}

excellent!

how about Bytor and the Snowdog?Sounds like a real fight going on to me!

[Stinsok]

Originally Posted by weary hobo

There's a million of 'em but "The Wreck of the Edumund Fitzgerald" comes to mind first.

I was gonna say that!

[Honk'n_down-low]

Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton

[Honk'n_down-low]

All My Love

I Believe

Robert Plant

[fleabee]

Ramones- 53rd & 3rd{Dee Dee Ramone's days as a male prostitute}