History's bunk!

Nick Lowe's song "Marie Provost" includes an inaccuracy in the lyrics: it misstates the date when Marie's death was discovered.

In "Pride (In the Name of Love)," Bono opens the verse about Martin Luther King's assassination with the line, "Early morning, April 4 ..." King actually was shot and killed in the evening, but Bono's choice of lyric simply flows better.

Any other examples, where a song with a topical lyric includes an inaccuracy?

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Much respect to Reno, whose post/thread made me think of this one.

Nick also misspelled Marie's last name. It's "Prevost."

Run-DMC: "There's three of us, but we're not the Beatles"

The Beach Boys pronounce Waimea Bay "why-a-Mee-uh." It's "wah-e-meh-uh."

Here's one that's always p***sed me off: In "Nashville Cats", John Sebastian states that Sun Records came from Nashville, not Memphis.

That one lights me up too, especially considering the source.

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Run-DMC: "There's three of us, but we're not the Beatles"

In Run-DMC's defense, at the time, there were only three Beatles ...

In Richard Thompson's "Galway To Graceland," he refers to Elvis "singing 'Suspicion'" - a track that the King didn't record. Rather, it was cut by the "sound-alike" Terry Stafford. [Still a great song though.]

And frankly, I have my doubts about how the whole Year 2525 scenario is going to play out.

>> Well, I'll be damned. Apparently he DID record "Suspicion" on his POT LUCK WITH ELVIS l.p.

I'm sure I read an issue of Flypaper where R.T. claimed to have botched that lyric, confusing Stafford's song with "Suspicious Minds."



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Regarding 2525, a character in Aliens III gets killed while singing that song.

It's funny, I presumed that "Suspicion" was a reference to "Suspicious Minds," which would indeed be a good choice for "the song she loved best."