In slightly more generalised terms:
The Byrds: So You Want To Be A Rock n Roll Star?
The Smiths: Paint A Vulgar Picture
Songs having a go at managers/record labels
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Lurcher300b
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Re: Songs having a go at managers/record labels
The Wailers - Small Axe
If you are the Big Tree we are the small axe, allegedly the Big Tree referred to the three major record producers or labels in Jamaica at the time.
If you are the Big Tree we are the small axe, allegedly the Big Tree referred to the three major record producers or labels in Jamaica at the time.
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Re: Songs having a go at managers/record labels
Lindisfarne - Taking Care Of Business. Aimed at Tony Stratton Smith, Charisma Records owner.
I Know What I like (In Your Wardrobe)
Re: Songs having a go at managers/record labels
Bands were not moaning when they were given the big chance were they?
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Daniel Quinn
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Re: Songs having a go at managers/record labels
Critique in song is of course the perogative of the successful. It deosnt however weaken the criticism.