ROYALTY IN ROCK & ROLL

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"DUKE OF EARL"- GENE CHANDLER, ET AL;  "COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING"- KING CRIMSON" "LITTLE RED CORVETTE"_ PRINCE;

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Dancing Queen 

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There She Goes, Her Royal Majesty

Lady Love

King of the Road

Queen of Hearts

Someday My Prince Will Come

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B. B. King

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It’s My Party: Leslie Gore (Like a queen with her king).

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Count Basie 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBTT3VPriV8 "PSYCHOTIC REACTION: BY COUNT FIVE

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Love Is A Many Splendored Thing: The Four Aces, and others. (The golden crown that makes a man a king).

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The More You Pay:  Don McLean (a queen with high nobility of birth).

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Specific monarchs, real and fictional:

Steely Dan "Kid Charlemagne" (Charles I, king of the Holy Roman Empire)

Crosby Stills Nash and Young "Guinnevere"

Toto Coelo "Dracula's Tango" and John Zacherle "Dinner With Drac" (Vlad III, The Impaler, was Prince of Wallachia)

Bow Wow Wow "Louis Quatorze" (Louis the 14th of France

Allan Sherman "You Went The Wrong Way Old King Louis" (also Louis 14, a parody of the song "You Came A Long Way From St. Louis")

Barry and the Tamerlanes "Wonder What She's Doing" (Tamerlane ruled most of central Asia in the 1300s)

Steve Martin "King Tut" (and honorable mention to "Old King Tut" by Billy Jones and Ernest Hare, from the 1920s and out of the rock era)

Cleopatra is mentioned in many lyrics and titles.

Also any artist named Leroy, or title / lyric that mentions it  (le roi, "the king" in French 🙂

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Desperado:  Eagles (Don’t you draw the Queen of Diamonds boy, she’ll beat you if she’s able. You know the Queen of Hearts is always your best bet).

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"JACKS OR BETTER TO OPEN"- TOM WAITS, ALSO "MEDLEY- JACK & NEAL, CALIFORNIA HERE I COME"... JACK WAS HOLDING... BULLETS BACKED W/__(EUPHEMISM FOR QUEENS), RHYMES W/ 'WITCHES'.

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Royals;

King of Pain;

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The End:  Earl Grant

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She's Royal, by Tarrus Riley

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Solitaire:  The Embers (and the queen of hearts is there to remind me that I’m all alone).

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Sun King by The Beatles

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Heart "Little Queen"

The Runaways "Queens Of Noise"

"King Bee" by Slim Harpo"

"Her Royal Majesty" by James Darren (Moondoggy from the Gidget movies).

The Trashmen "King Of The Surf"

Prince Buster "The Ten Commandments Of Man" and the answer song by Princess Buster, "The Ten Commandments of Woman"

Frank Gari "Princess"

Duke Baxter "Everybody Knows Matilda"

The Sex Pistols: GAWD save the KWEEN!

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Remember Then.  The Earls

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Royalty In Rock & Roll

Purple Rain - Prince

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Royals sung by Lorde

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The Wind Cries Mary. Hendrix (somewhere a queen is weeping, somewhere a king has no wife).

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Someone Saved My Life Tonight - Elton John (Just a pawn outplayed by a dominating queen)

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If You Could Read My Mind  Gordon Lightfoot (a movie queen to play the scene)

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Rock and Roll is King - ELO

Riding With the King - Eric Clapton

King for a Day - Thompson Twins

Little Queen -Heart

Queen of the Night - Whitney Houston

Caribbean Queen - Billy Ocean

Mississippi Queen - Mountain

I'm With You - The Five Royals

Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight

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Killer Queen by Queen

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Her Majesty:  Beatles

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The Homecoming Queen's got a gun - Tracy Ullman

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Like A Rolling Stone.  Dylan (princess on the steeple).

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Sir Duke -Stevie Wonder

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Dancing Queen by ABBA

King of the Hop by Bill Hailey