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Songs Based on a True Story

Given the year of the song and the true story it is based on, name the song title and the artist.
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Last updated: June 13, 2025
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Year
True Story
Song
Artist
1968
Written to comfort his bandmate's son during his parents’ divorce
Hey Jude
The Beatles
1970
About the National Guard shooting of four students at Kent State
Ohio
Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young
1971
A eulogy for the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper
American Pie
Don McLean
1972
Details a fire at a Frank Zappa concert in Switzerland
Smoke on the Water
Deep Purple
1973
A tribute to Marilyn Monroe
Candle in the Wind
Elton John
1975
Tells the story of a boxer wrongfully convicted of murder due to racial injustice
Hurricane
Bob Dylan
1976
Recounts the 1975 sinking of a freighter on Lake Superior that killed all 29 crew members
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Gordon Lightfoot
1983
Describes a massacre of civil rights protesters by British soldiers in Northern Ireland
Sunday Bloody Sunday
U2
1991
Inspired by a teenager who shot himself in front of his classmates in Texas
Jeremy
Pearl Jam
1992
Written after the death of the musician’s young son who fell from a high-rise window
Tears in Heaven
Eric Clapton
1994
A response to a bombing that killed two children in Northern Ireland
Zombie
The Cranberries
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1 Comments
Dimby
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Level 83
Jun 13, 2025
I immediately knew that Gitche Gumee would be on this quiz when I saw the title. Nice.
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