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Do You Remember Rock'n'Roll Radio by The Ramones - Jerry Lee Lewis, John Lennon, T.Rex
Who Will Save Rock'n'Roll? by The Dictators - The Stooges, Sgt Pepper
Behind The Wall Of Sleep by The Smithereens - Bill Wyman
White Man In Hammersmith Palais by The Clash - Dillinger, Leroy Smart, Delroy Wilson, Ken Booth and The Four Tops
Buddy Holly by Weezer
For you Blue by The Beatles - Elmore James
Elmo' James by The Chairmen of The Board
Radar Love by Golden Earring - Brenda Lee
Just Like Vince Taylor by Golden Earring
Just Like Eddie by Heinz
Three Stars by Eddie Cochran - Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, The Big Bopper
Sweet Home Alabama by Lynryd Skynryd - 'The Swampers' (Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section)
All Night Long by Warren Zevon - "Sweet Home Alabama, play that dead band's song"
My My, Hey Hey by Neil Young - Johnny Rotten
Rockaria by ELO - Wagner, Beethoven, Puccini, Verdi, Chuck Berry

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The Gaslight Anthem's,'Miles Davies and the Cool'.
Marc Cohen. 'Walking in Memphis'. Although it's about being baptized into the world of the blues, the second verse is about Elvis.
Charlie Mingus, 'Goodbye Pork Pie Hat'. About 'Lester Young'. Joni Mitchell later added lyrics to it.

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'Chelsea Hotel #2' by Leonard Copen is allegedly about Janis Joplin.

'You're So Vain' by Carly Simon is about, well who knows, but Dylan, James Taylor, Kris Kristofferson are all possible subjects, other than the more probable Warren Beatty.

'Let Me In' by R.E.M. apparently about Kurt Cobain.

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Neil Sedaka wrote the lyrics to "Oh! Carol" about Carole King, who he went out with at school (her real name is Carol Klein).
(Carole King released a responding single "Oh! Neil", using the same tune but with a tongue-in-cheek lyric written by her then husband Gerry Goffin.)

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