Songs about historical or famous events (name event if not obvious)
1. Goodbye Blue Sky - Pink Floyd (about dropping atom bomb on Hiroshima)
2. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band (end of American Civil War)
3. Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2 (The Para's killed a load of protesters in Northern Ireland)
4. American Pie - Don Mclean (Buddy Holly's tragic death and then some:)
5. Bunker Hill - Red Hot Chili Peppers
6. Waterloo - Abba
7. Hypnotize - System of a Down (Tiananmen Square Protests 1989)
8. Hindenburg - Arzt+Plufch
9. The Rising - Bruce Springsteen (Sept 11th attacks)
10. Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Kent State killings of Vietnam War Protestors)
11. The Fields of Athenry - Danny Doyle (The Great Irish Famine)
12. duh duh duurr, duh duh de durgh, duh duh derrr duh durgh- deep purple {sorry smoke on't water} fire in geneva or on the lake, my googles bust again, do i win?
This post has been edited by dancin' johnny: 19 September 2008 - 01:46 AM