Song's with other bands name's in the lyrics

[Glover_elbow]

i would rather jack than fleetwood mac the Reynolds girls

 

[Glover_elbow]

The One That Got Away (radiohead) Katy Perry

 

[futureboy]

One for all my fellow pop-punkers out there - All Time Low took their name from the lyrics "Head on Collision" by New Found Glory.

 

[kuepper]

Spy in the House of Love

 

[Glover_elbow]

Lana Del Rey “Say Yes To Heaven"

 

[TeessideCleveland]

Lionel Richie - ELO

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

Mott the Hoople’s All the young dudes has T-Rex in the lyrics.

Also Beatles and Stones!

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

We Didn't Start the Fire - Liberace, Elvis Presley, Rock Around the Clock (Chuck Berry), Buddy Holly, Chubby Checker, (Bob) Dylan, British Beatlemania.

 

[Anton_Berg]

I'm just a teenage dirtbag (Wheatus) 'Iron Maiden'.

'Borrowed Tune' (Neil Young) the Stones again.

 

[Midnight to Six Man]

"Kick out the Style bring back The Jam "

 

[steve0]

Bowie. Song for Dylan

 

[Aztec chimera]

Life in a northern town by dream academy mentions the Beatles

 

[redcarbob]

There’s a guy works down the chip swears he’s Elvis
Kirsty MacColl

 

[TeessideCleveland]

Undertones - My Perfect Cousin (Got the Human League In To Advise him)

 

[bumface]

Well if we're allowing individual artists as well as band names then:

Mika Bomb - Chuck Berry
The Concretes - Diana Ross
Warlock Pinchers - Morrisey Rides a Cockhorse

 

[TeessideCleveland]

Iron Maiden - Can I Play With Madness

 

[EuropeTwice]

The Wombats - Let’s dance to Joy Division

 

[anth25]

New one from Yard Act name checks Grammatics a local Leeds band from the late 00's

Not a band as such but one off my favourite lines of all time is
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey, that's me, and I want you only

 

[Frankie Lee]

The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest. Bob Dylan.

Read that wrong. That’s in the title.

 

[outoftown]

Reckon this is the best " performer + reference + actually song " so far