OT: Songs that reference historical events

[Ozimoto]

So this song has particular significance for Connecticut. Harford in particular.

 

[UHF]

Bastille Day.
Rush.
1975.
Caress Of Steel album.


Storming of the Bastille beginning the French Revolution.

 

[UHF]

A Great Day For Freedom.
Pink Floyd.
1994.
The Division Bell.


Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall - Ronald Reagan.

 

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Alexander The Great.
Iron Maiden.
1986.
Somewhere In Time album.

 

[UHF]

Angel Of Death (aka Nazi Josef Mengele).
Slayer.
1986.
Reign In Blood.


For all you headbangers.

 

[UHF]

Catherine Howard's Fate.
Blackmore's Night.
1999.
Under A Violet Moon album.


About the wife of King Henry VIII. Ritchie and Candace Blackmore's band.

 

[Hoops66]

This story of a famous train wreck in 1908, was first sung in 1924 by Vernon Dalhart and became the first million selling record in country music. This Seeker's version has pictures of the wreck. Johnny Cash also has a good version.

 

[UHF]

Ohio.
Crosby Stills Nash & Young.
1970.

One of the most recognized classic rock songs dealing with historical events. Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.

 

[MdStang]

The day the music died. RIP Buddy Holly.

 

[Hoops66]

 

[UHF]

Zombie.
The Cranberries.
1994.
No Need To Argue album.

Bombing in England in the early 1990s by the IRA.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[UHF]

Sunday Bloody Sunday.
U2.
1983.
War album.

January 30, 1972. British paratroopers opened fire, killing 13 and injuring 14 others.

 

[Hoops66]

 

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Countdown.
Rush.
1982.
Signals album.

Lyrics are about the first launch of the Space Shuttle.

 

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Fall Of The Peacemakers.
Molly Hatchet.
1983.
No Guts No Glory album.


Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, and John Lennon.

 

[UHF]

Give Peace A Chance.
John Lennon.
1969.
Give Peace A Chance / Remember Love album.


Anthem for the anti-war movement.

 

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Indian Reservation (Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Nation).
Paul Revere & The Raiders.
1968.


Another well known classic rock songs about historical events.

 

[Hoops66]

 

[UHF]

The Longest Day.
Iron Maiden.
2006.
A Matter Of Life And Death album.


D-Day.


Overlord, your master, not your God.
The enemy coast dawning grey with scud.
These wretched souls, puking, shaking fear.
To take a bullet for those who sent them here.

The world's alight.
The cliffs erupt in flame.
No escape, remorseless shrapnel rains.
Drowning men, no chance for a warrior's fate.
A choking death, enter Hell's gates.

 

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Never Again.
Disturbed.
2010.
Asylum album.


Holocaust.


They had a frightening desire for genocide.
They wouldn't stop 'til what was left of my family died.
Hell-bent on taking over the world.
You couldn't hide in the shroud of conformity.

We can't forget how we were devastated by the beast.
And how we pleaded with our captors for release.
We were hunted for no reason at all.
One of the darkest times in our history.

 

[UHF]

Manhattan Project.
Rush.
1985.
Power Windows album.


The big bang, took and shook the world.
Shot down the rising sun.
The end was begun, it would hit everyone.
When the chain reaction was done.

 

[UHF]

Smoke On The Water.
Deep Purple.
1972.
Machine Head.


Casino in Montreux, Switzerland caught fire during a Frank Zappa concert.

 

[meyers7]

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice take on Christ.

Superstar - Carl Anderson (from the movie)

 

[meyers7]

Bruce writes/sings about segregation and the Equal Opportunity Act of 1964 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby and the Range