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    Posted: March 19 2019 at 07:57
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"  Smile
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Mother Russia  - Renaissance - (About Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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Several songs by Big Big Train. For example:

  • Master James of St. George
  • Judas Unrepentant
  • Brave Captain
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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


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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Originally posted by brainstormer brainstormer wrote:

Please no trolls say "Benny the Bouncer"  Smile
 
I could say "Are You Ready Eddy" though, that's about a real person, although not historical yet.
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Originally posted by Argo2112 Argo2112 wrote:

Mother Russia  - Renaissance - (About Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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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Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

Originally posted by Argo2112 Argo2112 wrote:

Mother Russia  - Renaissance - (About Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Interesting, I didn't know that.
 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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Both lyrics by Robert Calvert.


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Toy Matinee - Last Plain Out (About Saddam Hussein) 
Kansas - Portrait (He Know ) - ( About Albert Einstein) 


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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
breathing, eating, defecating, screwing, drinking, spewing, sleeping...

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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Hi,

No Herman Hesse?

Steppenwolf -- Hawkwind

"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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