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What are some Prog Songs that Honored Historical Figures?
I was just thinking of the play's the thing by peter hammill and thought it was a uniquely great song in Prog and then wondered maybe there are others.
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Please no trolls say "Benny the Bouncer"
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Mother Russia - Renaissance - (About Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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Several songs by Big Big Train. For example:
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"Marie Antoinette" by Curved Air "Wilhelm Wilhelm" by Amon Düül 2; the song is basically in English with some French, Italian and German interjections. it is about the German emperor Wilhelm II |
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A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
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The Kings X song, Pleaides is about Giorano Bruno.
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I could say "Are You Ready Eddy" though, that's about a real person, although not historical yet.
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Interesting, I didn't know that.
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Eloy has done an entire album about Jeanne d'Arc, plus two songs prior to that album.
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Yea, I think Annie even says something before the Live at Carnegie Hall version starts.
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The battle of Epping Forest..Genesis. loosely about the Kray Twins...
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And can utility...about Canute...
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If Al Stewart were allowed to be counted as prog, the list would be virtually endless. Just OTTOMH The Shah of Iran Stalin Admiral Lord Fisher Christine Keeler Warren Harding William McKinley Amy Johnson Katherine of Aragon Sir Richard Grenville Ernst Rohm Nostradamus Somerset Maghaum Coco Chanel Edward VIII Wallis Simpson Arch-Duke Ferdinand Eisenhower Agamemnon Helen of Troy Wilfred Owen Seigfried Sassoon Edward Lear Charles Lindbergh Lawrence of Arabia Winston Churchill Napoleon Dorothy Parker Ernest Shackleton
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"Einstein was not a handsome fellow, nobody ever called him Al, he had a long mustache to pull on it was yellow, I don't believe he ever had a girl. One thing he missed out in his theory of time and space and relativity is something that makes it really clear he was never going to score like you and me he didn't know about Quark, Strangeness and Charm". "They said Ned Ludd was an idiot boy Edited by BaldFriede - March 19 2019 at 12:10 |
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Toy Matinee - Last Plain Out (About Saddam Hussein)
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Hi,
No Herman Hesse? Steppenwolf -- Hawkwind
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"The 23 minute title track, The Underfall Yard, is a song about Isambard Kingdom Brunel
and the great Victorian engineers. The song explores Enlightenment
themes, contrasting the rationalism of the Victorian era to a coming
'age of unreason'. The Underfall Yard was initially inspired by Richard Fortey's The Hidden Landscape.
In the book, Fortey describes a journey along Brunel's Great Western
line, where, as the author travelled west, the rocks are found to be
older ." I think Big Big Train have probably got quite a few songs about historical figures, but this one's my favourite
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breathing, eating, defecating, screwing, drinking, spewing, sleeping...
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"Steppenwolf" is more about the book than the author. But I should have mentioned "Hassan i Sabah".
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Grace Darling by The Strawbs immediately came to mind.
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Rick Wakeman's "The 6 wives of Henry the VIII".
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