Songs about Hollywood Stars

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I need an hour's worth of songs about movie stars.

So far:
YLT: Tom Courtenay
REM: Monty got a raw deal (Montgomery Clift)
The Clash: The Right Profile (Montgomery Clift)
Magnetic Fields: Busby Berkeley Dreams
Sonic Youth: Mildred Pierce
Matthew Sweet: Winona (ryder)
Cake: Frank Sinatra
Bryan Ferry: Goddess of Love (Marilyn Monroe)
Billy Bragg & Wilco: Ingrid Bergman Song
Kim Carnes: Bette Davis Eyes
Judy Garland: Dear Mr. Gable
Wesley Willis" Johnny Depp
Serge Gainsbourg: BB

Any others?

― sarah boucher (sarahla), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:40 (twenty years ago)

Hefner: Lee Remick

(surely Wesley Willis will PWNZ this thread)

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:44 (twenty years ago)

The Kinks - "Celluoid Heroes"

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:44 (twenty years ago)

Toto - "Rosanna" (OK, loose definition of "star" there)

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:45 (twenty years ago)

Drive-By Truckers / Shania Twain : Steve McQueen (also a Prefab Sprout LP title)

― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:47 (twenty years ago)

Miss Kittin & The Hacker : Frank Sinatra

― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:49 (twenty years ago)

Shania Twain? I was thinking Sheryl Crow. x-post

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:49 (twenty years ago)

what's the diff

― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:51 (twenty years ago)

Bela Lugosi's Dead

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:52 (twenty years ago)

Blue Oyster Cult - "Joan Crawford"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:54 (twenty years ago)

The Fall - "Cary Gran't Wedding"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:55 (twenty years ago)

"Grant's"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:55 (twenty years ago)

Hefner: Lee Remick

Also, The Go-Betweens: Lee Remick (different song, although I am surprised that Hayman hadn't heard of this one before he wrote his).

― emil.y (emil.y), Saturday, 25 March 2006 01:29 (twenty years ago)

Glenn Danzig "Who Killed Marilyn"

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Saturday, 25 March 2006 02:53 (twenty years ago)

Alice Cooper-"Ballad of Dwight Frye" (sort of)

― They Call the Wind Howchamagowcha (Arthur), Saturday, 25 March 2006 04:39 (twenty years ago)

Marty Balin - "Elvis and Marilyn" (caution: song is *awful*)
Elton John - "Candle in the Wind"
Al Stewart - "Year of the Cat" (I forget who it's about, though)
R.E.M. - "Man on the Moon," "The Great Beyond"
and if you really want to stretch the definition: Johnny Wakelin - "Black Superman - Muhammad Ali"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 25 March 2006 06:34 (twenty years ago)

Nirvana - "Frances Farmer will have her revenge on Seattle"
Voodoo Queens - "Kenuwee Head" (about Keanu Reeves)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 25 March 2006 08:54 (twenty years ago)

Is "Vogue" by Madonna too obvious?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 25 March 2006 09:02 (twenty years ago)

Billy Bob Thornton- "Angelina"

― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Saturday, 25 March 2006 09:10 (twenty years ago)

Supposedly, Bob Dylan wrote "The Mighty Quinn" after seeing Anthony Quinn play an eskimo in a movie.

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

John Prine-Late John Garfield Blues

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:30 (twenty years ago)

drop nineteens 'winona'

― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:59 (twenty years ago)

The Eagles "James Dean"

I apologize for mentioning the Eagles on ILX.

― Jeff K (jeff k), Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:02 (twenty years ago)

OMG Roxy Music-"2HB" (Bogart)

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Jackie DeShannon-"Anna Karina"

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:50 (twenty years ago)

also Lambchop - 'Steve McQueen'.

― derrick (derrick), Saturday, 25 March 2006 20:21 (twenty years ago)

ozma - natalie portman

― jonathan - stl (jonathan - stl), Saturday, 25 March 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Mildred Pierce is a movie, not a star.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 26 March 2006 01:57 (twenty years ago)

Millions of Dead Cops - " John Wayne was a nazi"

see also hundreds of "Fuck Reagan" songs by 80s USHC bands...none of which I can recall right now ....anyone ?

― grapple (grapple), Sunday, 26 March 2006 07:21 (twenty years ago)

...and is'nt there a track of EVOl about Madonna and sean penn ...xpressway to your skull ????

― grapple (grapple), Sunday, 26 March 2006 07:23 (twenty years ago)

Nick Lowe - "Marie Provost" (fictional Hollywood star)

― gooblar (gooblar), Sunday, 26 March 2006 10:10 (twenty years ago)

Angelina - Billy Bob Thornton

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Sunday, 26 March 2006 20:44 (twenty years ago)

stephen malkmus - jo jo's jacket (yul brenner)

― Udbhav Gupta (udbhav gupta), Sunday, 26 March 2006 22:00 (twenty years ago)

Unrest "Winona Ryder" (two versions are on the BPM collection)

― sleeve (sleeve), Sunday, 26 March 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

divine comedy 'when the lights go out all over europe', doris day, well it's more about those french girls who cheer him up.

― keyth (keyth), Sunday, 26 March 2006 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Cleaners from Venus "Clara Bow"
The Passions "I'm In Love with a German Film Star"
Velvet Underground "New Age"

― Carlos C., Monday, 27 March 2006 00:15 (twenty years ago)

>>Nick Lowe - "Marie Provost" (fictional Hollywood star)

She was a real person! The song is a true story!

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Monday, 27 March 2006 04:39 (twenty years ago)

...and is'nt there a track of EVOl about Madonna and sean penn ...xpressway to your skull ????
-- grapple

Indeed. "Madonna, Sean & Me" is an alternate title to that song. I believe it was listed as "Expressway..." on the label and as "Madonna..." on the cover. Or maybe on the cassette version, or something like that.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:11 (twenty years ago)

Also: MX-80 Sound, "Orson" (Welles)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:13 (twenty years ago)

Carly Simon, "You're So Vain" (if indeed it is about Warren Beatty)

― hank (hank s), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:54 (twenty years ago)

Public Enemy "fight the power"

― Sym Sym (sym), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:29 (twenty years ago)

"I'm James Dean" -Government Issue

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:47 (twenty years ago)

"Gina Lollobrigida", by Cinerama. "Girls of Wild Strawberries" by Guided by Voices. "Shoot Doris Day" by the Super Furry Animals. "No More James Dean" by Swearing at Motorists.

― Sam E., Tuesday, 28 March 2006 23:52 (twenty years ago)

"Take, Take, Take" _ The White Stripes

― undeadsinatra, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 00:16 (twenty years ago)

"Robert De Niro's Waiting" - Bananarama

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 00:18 (twenty years ago)

that goddamned shawn mullins song

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 00:23 (twenty years ago)

I don't know if it's *about* her, but Donovan's "Lalena" was inspired by Lotte Lenya.

Also, if you wanted to break things up a bit, "My Name Is Wood-Yi" from the Howard Stern show.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 01:53 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Gorillaz "Clint Eastwood"

― Wolfgang, Tuesday, 9 May 2006 11:27 (twenty years ago)

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