Didn't Elvis Costello once write a song ( possibly called Veronica ) where he slagged off both John Lennon's "Imagine" and Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" ?

The Byrds' 'So You Want To be a Rock & Roll Star' was an attack on the Monkees pre-fabricated pop. Whcih is ironic, considering the Byrds debut album probably featured the same LA session musicians as used by the Monkees on their albums.

The Monkees have yet to reply.



Well, if you're going to write a slag-off song, thats just the type of maudlin s**t to point your canons at. I must dig up that song.

rem wake up bomb as a slag on oasis who i think toured with them the year before new advesntures in hi fi got released...

In fact, the song's called 'The Other Side Of Summer':

"Was it a millionaire
Who said 'Imagine no possessions'?
A poor little schoolboy who said
'We don't need no lessons'?"

The Style Council's "Walls Come Tumbling Down" takes a dig at 'Relax' by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, if I remember correctly...

...and Fergal Sharkey's two big solo hits were written by Maria McKee and her ex, respectively: apparently the songs were an attack by each on the other.