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* Singer/songwriter Al Stewart is known for the detailed historical references in his songs.
** His album ''Between the Wars'' is practically a textbook of 1918-1939 European and American history set to music (in a good way). The songs detail with such subjects as the formation of the League of Nations and the life of Marian Hearst.
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** See also "Lord Grenville", "On the Border", and "Flying Sorcery" on the album ''Year of the Cat''; "The Palace of Versailles" on ''Time Passages''; "Constantinople" and "Murmansk Run" on ''24 Carrots''; "Josephine Baker", "Fields of France", and "Antarctica" on ''Last Days of the Century''; "Trains" and "Charlotte Corday" on ''Famous Last Words.''
* ''[[Monty Python]]'' had a song about Oliver Cromwell. It is, of course, accurate. Once you learn it, you can conjure up all sorts of interesting facts about Mr. Cromwell. (One of my wife's lecturers on the Civil War made the whole class learn the song by heart because it contains so many useful dates)
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* Sabaton's real-life war songs are very accurate, especially in ''Wolfpack''--who knew failure to launch could be rendered so ''awesomely?''
* Seanan McGuire's song "[http://seananmcguire.com/songbook.php?id=117 The Black Death]" is six minutes of well-researched virology and microbiology explaining why [[The Black Death]] was probably not bubonic plague.
* iLIKETRAINS have lots of historical songs: for example, "Spencer Perceval" and "I Am Murdered" are about the assassination of [[Spencer Perceval]] from the perspectives of the killer John Billingham and Perceval himself respectively, "More Weight" is about the death of [
* The song "Critical Mass" by British Progressive Metal band Threshold contains a lot of accurate references to particle physics and string theory.
* Weird Al Yankovic in "Living with a Hernia". Halfway through the song he starts listing all types of hernias, from incomplete to direct, to a group of medical students.
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