Top 10 Songs About Political Figures

The Top Ten
1 Pigs (Three Different Ones) - Pink Floyd
2 Alexander the Great - Iron Maiden
3 21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson
4 Elected - Alice Cooper
5 A Song for Richard and His Friends - Chicago

I guess they refer to Richard Nixon.

6 Exhuming McCarthy - R.E.M.
7 Masked Jackal - Coroner
8 Bushleaguer - Pearl Jam
9 Rasputin - Boney M.

A song about Grigori Rasputin - his political views influenced Russia and the royal family.
The song is a catchy dance tune focusing on Rasputin's private life - "lover of the Russian Queen".

10 Yo George - Tori Amos
The Contenders
11 Genghis Khan - Iron Maiden
12 Dear Mr. President - Pink

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you shouldn't judge P! nk by pop standards in any way.

13 God Save the Queen - Sex Pistols
14 I, Caligvla - Ex Deo
15 Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
16 Her Majesty - The Beatles
17 Wig Wam Bam - The Sweet
18 The Rise of Hannibal - Ex Deo
19 Happy Birthday Leonid Brezhnev - Joan Baez

Leonid Brezhnev was a communist leader of the USSR

20 Caligula - Adx
21 Megalomaniac - Incubus
22 Dschinghis Khan - Dschinghis Khan
23 Mosh - Eminem
24 Stupid White Man - Bushido

It is about George W. Bush and how he turned being Muslim into something bad in the US. It is the only political song Bushido ever recorded, and it's on his most classic album "Vom Bordstein bis zur Skyline" from 2003 (this was NOT a reason why the album was indexed, only the songs about street violence were relevant).

25 Ruth Maude - Xavier Naidoo

Being a conspiracy theorist who thinks all politicians are puppets, he name drops Helmut Schmidt and Angela Merkel. The song doesn't go too far however, he just basically says that he will fight against the "dragons" (in his typically cryptic lyricism).
The title is a homophone with "Rufmord" (defamation).

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