Songs about Historical Events
Of all the music forms, the song about a real historic event has the deepest roots. The very first songs were epic ballads telling of historic events, a way to pass down knowledge in the age of mostly oral communication. In medieval times, bards were hired by monarchs to compose ballads of the king's heroic ancestors. Minstrels, too, traveled the medieval world, singing educational and informative songs of far-off places and events.
Yeah, how cool is that? So modern bands sometimes take a stab at contributing to history. For one thing, it's a sure way to call attention to an event if you have an activist bent. You'll also notice that a song about a historic event tends to go down in history itself. Maybe some enterprising group will simply make singing the news their main gig?
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American Pie
Don McLean -
B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)
OutKast -
Belsen Was A Gas
Sex Pistols -
Black Day in July
Gordon Lightfoot -
Black Gold
Soul Asylum -
Born in the U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen -
Bullet
Misfits, The -
Dust Bowl Dance
Mumford & Sons -
Hey Man, Nice Shot
Filter -
Hide and Seek
Imogen Heap -
Ohio
Neil Young -
Ohio
Crosby Stills Nash & Young -
Right Here Right Now
Jesus Jones -
Road Movie to Berlin
They Might Be Giants -
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Black Sabbath -
Sink the Bismarck
Johnny Horton -
Sorry For Now
Linkin Park -
Spanish Bombs
Clash, The -
Strange Fruit
Billie Holiday -
Sunday Bloody Sunday
U2 -
The Ballad of Ira Hayes
Johnny Cash -
The Battle Of New Orleans
Johnny Horton -
The Beat Goes On
Sonny and Cher -
The Motor City Is Burning
John Lee Hooker -
The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald
Gordon Lightfoot -
We Didn't Start the Fire
Billy Joel -
Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)
Alan Jackson -
Woodstock
Crosby Stills Nash & Young -
Zombie
Cranberries, The
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