some real lyrics from Chumbawumba what inspired this thread.
From the track 'How to get your band on television' on the album, 'pictures of starving children sells millions of records'...

Here's our contribution: we've called it Slag Aid
For every pop star that we slag off today
A million pounds will be given away!
Paul McCarney - Come on Down!
With crocodile tears to irrigate this ground
Make of Ethiopia a fertile paradise
Where everyone sings Beatles songs and buys shares in EMI
Freddie Mercury - This is Your Life!
Thank the Lord that you were born white
And thank apartheid for this wonderful opportunity
To peddle your hypocrisy in Sun City
David Bowie - The Price is Right!
A suitful of compassion and a gobful of s***e
Still the voices of those who doubt
Coca-Cola for the peasants to end this drought
Jagger and Richards - Game for a Laugh!
Dancing us down the garden path
To a place where money grows on trees
Where cocaine habits are financed by hunger and disease
Ask the puppet-masters who pull the strings
"Who makes the money when the puppets sing?"
Ask the corporations "Where does the money go?"
Ask the empty bellied children "What are we singing for?"
A Cliff Richard - 3,2,1!
The God who remains when the religion's gone
Cliff, we've got a special surprise for you today
So come closer, step this way
Cliff, you're such an example of moral worth
Such a purist saint come to bless our Earth
That on behalf of our viewers watching telly
And on behalf of the millions with empty bellies
We're donating something special that
we're all going to like:
Cliff Richard, we're going to nail
you up to a cross tonight!!

Chumbawumba, you thumped a tub
Then you thumped a Minister
I’m sure you think you’re anarchic
But I think it’s all rather sinister

(NB – I know they didn’t actually thump him but that’s what we call poetic licence)

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand!

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.

(Member of the School of Optimism 1969-2016 inclusive)

Ode to Stevie Wonder

"Lately I've been staring in the mirror........."

Why?

Living down here does have some advantages. At least you can see them cry.

you beat me to that one

Curtis Mayfield
you inspired many thats true
but it all went to pieces
when a lighting rig
fell on you

Ode to Tom Jones

The Taffy warbler from the hills
Sang about his fever and chills
But the Young new Mexican puppeteer
What the fcuk was that all about?

FH

"The facts have changed", Rishi Sunak