Songs that depict real events...Now also, playlist on Spotify

[DanielT]

What tips do you have to give? It can be any type of event.

I myself discovered this live version from the thread about Live Albums. Undoubtedly, it also fits into this thread:

Live Albums

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Edit:
I'm creating a list now. Have fixed the first page in this thread, so far.

If more then one suggestion are given in one and the same post, I will take one of them:

ASR, Songs that depict real events

ASR, Songs that depict real events · Playlist · 103 songs · 4 likes

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[BinkieHuckerback]

Saxon - Dallas 1 PM

 

[LTig]

Biko by Peter Gabriel.

EDIT: added link and video.

 

[diddley]

The Hurricane from Bob Dylan

 

[nerdstrike]

Roll Northumbria by the Dreadnoughts. There are quite a few more in the style of sea songs out there, but this one I like the most.

In a similar but completely different vein, Banting's Imparted Years by Acapella Science. More of a tribute, but some of it is narrative.

 

[muslhead]

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
by Gordon Lightfoot

 

[Martin]

Martin

 

[mhardy6647]

'For What It's Worth': Inside Buffalo Springfield's Classic Protest Song

Read how a 1966 anti-curfew protest on the Sunset Strip led to Buffalo Springfield's enduring countercultural classic "For What It's Worth."

www.rollingstone.com

What a field day for the heat...

 

[BinkieHuckerback]

 

[somebodyelse]

Rev Hammer's Freeborn John album covering the life of John Lilburne
Battlefield Band - The Beaches of St Valery about the fate of the 51st Highland Division in June 1940, south of the better known Dunkirk events

Three Score and Ten probably counts as 'traditional' given its route from poem to song.
Battle of the Beanfield in the Levellers song of the same name, and Hawkwind's Confrontation
Justin Sullivan / New Model Army - Ocean Rising, in part about the Voyage of the James Caird

 

[diddley]

Miss Nina Simone Mississippi Goddam and Billy Holiday Strange Fruit

 

[Rick63]

Alan Jackson - Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)

From from the CMA Awards on November 7th 2001.

 

[somebodyelse]

Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy, When the Levee Breaks - one of several about the 1927 Mississippi flood.
Fairport Convention's Babbacombe Lee album, and Red & Gold (about the Battle of Cropredy Bridge)

 

[pk500]

Live version of a ROCKING tune by Drive-by Truckers that tells the little-known story of gun rights advocate and former NRA leader Harlon Carter, who shot and killed a 15-year-old Hispanic boy in 1931, but escaped incarceration.

 

[DanielT]

Interesting tips so far!

I have heard many before. Tonight it will be music and Wikipedia for me.

 

[BinkieHuckerback]

...pretty much any Sabaton song...

 

[Ordin Aryguy]

Skynyrd seemingly wrote most of their songs about real-life.

 

[punosion]

Hear Death Cab for Cutie Pay Tribute to Victims of Pipeline Explosion on New Song 'Kids in '99'

Death Cab for Cutie unveiled a poignant new song, 'Kids in '99,' from their forthcoming project, 'The Blue EP,' out this September.

www.rollingstone.com

On June 10th, 1999, a gas pipeline operated by the Olympic Pipeline Company exploded in Bellingham, Washington’s Whatcom Falls Park, injuring eight people and killing three children, aged 10 to 18, who were fishing and playing in the area. Frontman Ben Gibbard describes the scene over a rolling drumbeat and textural guitar, gingerly singing, “Gone, gone” in the chorus as he laments their deaths.

 

[mhardy6647]

Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy, When the Levee Breaks - one of several about the 1927 Mississippi flood...

Randy Newman's beautiful & elegiac Louisiana 1927, too.

 

[mhardy6647]

Not an event per se* but Robert Hunter's/the Dead's Bird Song was his/their eulogy for Janis.

Janis (l) and Grace (r)

In a sort of similar vein (no pun intended), Becker & Fagen's Kid Charlemagne was, in their typically abstruse and elliptical way, a twisted "tribute" to the Dead's soundman and acid connection, Owsley "Bear" Stanley. Fagen's even said as much.

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* Do these count, or am I too far off-axis in terms of "real events"?
I mean, the Sixties did happen, even though the reality of those happenings is always somewhat open to debate.