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Songs With Beatles References (Beatles mentioned in others' songs)
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Speaking of Lucy, Pink Floyd’s ‘Let There Be More Light‘ has the lines ‘For there revealed in glowing robes/ Was Lucy in the sky’. 

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Silly Girl said
Speaking of Lucy, Pink Floyd’s ‘Let There Be More Light‘ has the lines ‘For there revealed in glowing robes/ Was Lucy in the sky’.   

Don’t quote me on this, but I think that’s already been mentioned here. 

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Necko said

Don’t quote me on this, but I think that’s already been mentioned here.   

It’s likely, but if I mentioned it then I shall die of shame. 

I do recall mentioning it elsewhere on the boards. 

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kaleidoscope thighs said on 13 September 2011
Marcelo said:

Epic Band Pink Floyd did really made a reference to Their Awesomeness The Beatles in “Let There Be More Light” from their second album (the first that count in my book) “A Saucerful of Secrets“:

 

The outer lock rolled slowly back

The servicemen were heard to sigh

For there revealed in flowing robes

Was Lucy in the sky

 

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Just caught this thread. Of course some has already mentioned “Ball of Confusion” by the Temptations and “Summer Rain ” by Johnnie Rivers… Or have they? Do a youtube search. It was SOOO cool when we heard these for the first time!

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Chollie said on 6 April 2010
Awesome songs…just thought of another, Summer Rain By Johnny Rivers ….

All summer long, we spent dancin’ in the sand,
And the jukebox kept on playin’
Sargeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
I guess it kind of counts.
  

Chollie said on 11 April 2010
This one dates me…Ball of Confusion by  The Temptations — 1970

Fear in the air, tension everywhere
Unemployment rising fast,
The Beatles’ new record’s a gas
And the only safe place to live is
On an indian reservation
And the band played on  

I suppose the record mentioned in Ball of Confusion is Let It Be . Correct? If so, I wonder if they knew when they wrote these lyrics to this song that it would be The Beatles last album. a-hard-days-night-ringo-14 Is that part of the world being a ball of confusion at that time? What kind of world would it be without The Beatles, oh my.

I often wonder what it was like to have been a teenager when The Beatles records were “new”. I was 2 when they broke up.

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Chollie said on 11 April 2010
This one dates me…Ball of Confusion by  The Temptations — 1970

Fear in the air, tension everywhere
Unemployment rising fast,
The Beatles’ new record’s a gas
And the only safe place to live is
On an indian reservation
And the band played on  

I suppose the record mentioned in Ball of Confusion is Let It Be . Correct? If so, I wonder if they knew when they wrote these lyrics to this song that it would be The Beatles last album. a-hard-days-night-ringo-14 

I think they’re referring to Abbey Road actually. According to Wikipedia, Ball of Confusion was recorded on April 12 and April 14, 1970 and released on May 7, 1970. That would mean that the song was recorded about one month before Let It Be ‘s May 18, 1970 (US) release and was released roughly one and a half weeks before. That said, the Beatles’ split was announced on April 10, 1970, so it is theoretically possible that they might have known about the Beatles’ split while the song was recorded, but, unless the song was written between April 10 and April 12, it was not written with the Beatles’ break-up in mind. 

There is, however, a small possibility that they are referring to an early version of Let It Be , as early versions of Let It Be  were leaked as far back as Summer 1969, but this seems unlikely. 

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Can’t it be the ‘Let It Be ‘ single which was released on the 11th March 1970? 

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Can’t it be the ‘Let It Be ‘ single which was released on the 11th March 1970?   

That’s a good point. The lyric refers to the Beatles’ ‘new record‘, not ‘album’, so it could well be. 

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From Neil Sedaka’s 1974 album Sedaka’s Back there is this classic, The Immigrant:

Sedaka was one of John’s character witnesses in his immigration, and the song was dedicated to John on the album, so it’s fair to say that the song was at the least inspired by John’s situation, and there’s a reasonable argument that The Immigrant is John.

Lennonology has John commenting on the song on 30 January 1975 in a telephone interview with Jim Kerr of New York radio station WPLJ-FM:

Normally people call you and they want something – right, it’s very seldom somebody calls you and gives you something. I just think for him to do it, you know, is just beautiful.

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meanmistermustard said
Can’t it be the ‘Let It Be ‘ single which was released on the 11th March 1970?   

Oh, duh! I shoulda thought of that. 

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David Bowie – Sorrow

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Bowie song again.  ‘And my brother’s back at home with his Beatles and his Stones’.  Mott The Hoople also did a great version with Bowie singing backing vocals.

 

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David Bowie – Sorrow

“With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue” a-hard-days-night-george-10

  

Bowie’s ‘Sorrow’ is a cover of a 1965 McCoys number which was a hit by The Merseys in 1966. George almost certainly borrowed that line for ‘It’s All Too Much ‘. 

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Thanks mmm, I totally forgot about that a-hard-days-night-paul-10.

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Taxman Mr. Theif, by Cheap Trick contains this line:

   “He hates you, he loves money
And he’ll steal your sh*t and think it is funny
Like
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Oh! That reminds me – We Didn’t Start the Fire by Billy Joel – British Beatlemania.  

“All You Wanna Do Is Dance” by Billy Joel – Why don’t the Beatles get back together?

“Scenes From An Italian Restaurant” by Billy Joel – This song doesn’t have a direct lyrical reference to the Beatles, but the fact that it’s a medley made up of smaller unfinished songs is due to inspiration from the Abbey Road  medley.

Here | There | Everywhere

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This song is already in the list, but I just listened to it for the first time.

John Lennon ‘s Guitar by Barclay James Harvest

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Southern California Purples, by Chicago. 

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“I must be in the wrong place
And I don’t know where I’m going
Since my lover left me
Never no smile on my face
I am he is you are he is you are me and we are all together
Buddy, this ain’t L.A.”

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No idea if it’s been previously mentioned but heard the below on Sunday and it featured the line

Dont tell them you’re bigger than Jesus 

It’s a decent song.

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