Artist:  Animals
Song Title:  The Story of Bo Didley
Beatles reference: "..about one year later, in a place called Liverpool, in England, a four young guys make records, beginning with stuff like It's been a hard day's
night and I been working like a dog, and so on...a place called Richmond, in   Surrey, way down in deep south, a good guys with long hair, singing I
wanna be your man, yeah, and all that ..."
Year:  1964
 

Artist:  Audio Adrenaline
Song Title:  Never gonna be as big as Jesus
Beatles Reference:  "Maybe be just like The Beatles, melodic rock and heavyweights."
Year:  1996

Artist:  Avalon
Song Title:  Testify to love
Beatles Reference:  "Give peace a chance."

Artist:  Bad Company
Song Title:  Shooting Star
Beatles Reference:  "Johnny was a school boy when he heard his first Beatles song, Love me Do, I think it was and from there is didn't take him long"

Artist:  Barenaked Ladies
Song Title:  Be My Yoko Ono
Beatles Reference: "but I don't like all these people slagging her for breaking up The Beatles."
Year:  1993

Artist:  Big Tent Revival
Song Title:  What would Jesus Do?
Beatle Reference:  "..and all that we need is love...sweet love."  (I am not too sure if this is a Beatles reference, but in concert almost right after singing this line, BTR broke out singing the Beatles song "Rain" so it just might be)
Year:  1998
 

Artist: Marc Bolan
Song Title:  Ballrooms on Mars
Beatles Reference:  "John Lennon knows your name and I've seen his."

Artist:  David Bowie
Song Title:  Young American
Beatles Reference:  "I read the news today, oh boy...."

Artist:  Bush
Song Title:  Glycerine
Beatles Reference:  "...but when we rise it's like Strawberry Fields"
Year:  1995

Artist:  C&C Music Factory
Song Title:  Here We Go
Beatles Reference:  "...with the Beatles and the Jackson 5."

Artist:  Petula Clark
Song Title:  I know a place
Beatles Reference:  "All around there are girls and boys.  It's a swingin' place- a Cellerful of Noise."
Year:  1964

Artist:  Clash
Song Title:  London Calling
Beatles Reference:  "London calling, now don't look to us.  All that phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust."

Artist:  David Allen Coe
Song Title:  Willie and Waylon and me
Beatles Reference:  "They say the Beatles were just the beginning of everything"

Artist:  Elvis Costello
Song Title:  The Other Side of Summer
Beatles Reference:  "Was it a millionaire who said 'Imagine no possessions?'"

Artist:  The Cranberries
Song Title/Beatles Reference:  "I just shot John Lennon"
Year:  1994

Artist:  Sheryl Crow
Song Title:  The Na-Na Song
Beatles Reference:  "Beatles wrote the Nike song and called it macaroni"
Year:  1993

Artist: Joe Diffie
Song Title:  Bigger Than The Beatles
Beatles Reference: "Our love is bigger than the Beatles/Our love takes us higher than the Eagles
Year:  1998

Artist:  Dr. Hook and the medicine show
Song Title:  Everybody's trying to make it big but me
Beatles Reference:  "...and I heard that Paul McCartney drives a Rolls Royce car."

Song Title:  Roland the Roadie and Gurtie the Groupie
Beatles Reference:  "She'll introduce me to the Beatles and the Stones"

Artist: Dream Academy
Song Title:  Life in a Northern Town
Beatles Reference:  "In Winter '63/It felt like the world would freeze/with John F. Kennedy/And the Beatles

Artist: Electric Light Orchestra
Song Title:  Shangri-la
Beatles Reference:  "My Shangri la has gone away/faded like the Beatles on Hey Jude."

Artist:  Hair (Broadway soundtrack)
Song Title:  Frank Mills
Beatles Reference:  "He resembles George Harrison of the Beatles."
Year:  1968

Artist:  Hooters
Song Title:  And We danced
Beatle Reference:  "She was a be-bop baby on a hard day's night..."

Artist:  Michael Jackson
Song Title:  HIStory
Beatle Reference:  "...1964: The Beatles play on the Ed Sullivan Show..."

Artist:  Jellyfish
Song Title:  All I want is Everything
Beatle Reference:  "I think I'd like to play guitar and be a Beatle, and be so swell."
 

Artist:  Billy Joel
Song Title:  We Didn't Start the Fire
Beatle Reference:  "British Beatlemania"
Year:  1989

Song Title:  All You Wanna Do Is Dance
Beatles Reference:  "Why don't the Beatles get back together?"

Artist:  Kevin Johnson
Song Title:  Friends of mine
Beatles Reference:  "And they were calling out for Ringo/And they were begging George to go solo/And a thousand calls for John and Paul/And 'A hard day's night..."
Year:  1985

Artist:  Grover Levey
Song Title:  There's a life
Beatles Reference:  There is not a Beatles reference in this song, but in the video for the song.  In this video Grover is in a limo with a man dressed in a blue Sgt. Pepper's costume and a hofner bass guitar.  He is also wearing a walrus mask.  This "Paul" opens up a lunch box and hands Grover a Granny Smith Apple.  Then at the end of the video "Paul" appears on a stage performing.
 

Artist:  Lost and Found
Song Title:  Way it was meant to be
Beatles Reference:  "Someone took the Beatles lead guitar."
Year:  1996

Artist:  Matt the Hopple
Song Title:  All the Young Dudes
Beatles Reference:  "Well, my brother's back at home with his Beatles and his Stones."

Artist:  The Monkees
Song Title:  Randy Scouse Git
Beatles Reference:  "Four princes at EMI are sitting crosslegged on the floor"
 

Artist:  Roger McGuinn
Song Title:  Car Phone
Beatles Reference:  "she blew her mind out in a car"

Artist:  Don McLean
Song Title:  American Pie
Beatles Reference:  "Helter Skelter in a summer swelter."

Artist:  John Mellencamp
Song Title:  Key West Intermezzo (I saw you first)
Beatles Reference:  "This loud Cuban band is crucifying John Lennon"

Artist:  Ricky Nelson
Song Title:  Garden Party
Beatles Reference:  "Yoko brought her walrus there was magic in the air"

Artist:  Larry Norman
Song Title:  Reader's Digest
Beatles References:  "The Beatles said 'All you need is love' and then they broke up."
"Dear John, Who's more popular now?  I've been listening to Paul's records and I think he really is dead."
Year:  1974

Artist:  Oasis
Song Title:  D'you know what I mean?
Beatles Reference:  "The Fool on the hill and I feel fine."

Song Title:  SuperSonic
Beatles Reference:  "Sail with me in my yellow submarine"

Song Title:  Don't look back in anger
Beatles Reference:  "so I started a revolution from my bed"

Song Title:  Be here now
Beatles Reference:  "...Sing a song for me one from Let it Be."
 

Song Title:  Fade in-out
Beatles  Reference:  "Get on the helter skelter"

Song Title:  Take me Away
Beatles Reference:  "I'd like to be under the sea"

Song Title: My big mouth
Beatles Reference:  "down the long and winding road"
 

Artist:  Peter, Paul and Mary
Song Title:  Rock and Roll Music
 Beatles Reference:    "...and when the Beatles tell you, they have love they would like to sell you, they mean exactly what they say...."

Artist:  Police
Song Title:  Born in the 50's
Beatles Reference:  "The girls screamed when the Beatles played..."

Artist:  Public Enemy
Song Title:  Bring the Noise
Beatles Reference:  Yoko Ono is mentioned in a rhyme with Sonny Bono
 

Artist:   Prince
Song Title:  Annie Christian
Beatles Reference:  "She killed John Lennon/Shot him down cold/She tried 2 kill Reagan/Everybody say 'Gun Control!(Gun Control)"

Artist:  Queen
Song Title:  Sheer Heart Attack
Beatles Reference:  "well you're just 17, and you know what I mean."

Song Title:  I Want to Ride my Bicycle
Beatles Reference:  "I don't believe in Beatles fan, Frankenstein or Superman"

Artist:  Run DMC
Song Title:  King Of Rock
Beatles Reference:  "Every jam we play, we break two needles.  There's three of us but we're not the Beatles."

Artist:   Johnny Rivers
Song Title:   Summer Rain
Beatles Reference:   "All summer long we spent dancing in the sand, and everybody kept on playing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."
Year:  1968

Artist:  School House Rock
Song Title:   A Noun Is A Person, Place, or Thing
Beatles Reference:  "I heard Chubby Checker, he was doing the twist. And the Beatles and the Monkees. It goes like this."
 

Artist:  Scorpions
Song Title:  In Trance
Beatles Reference:  "I feel so sad I'm feelin' down on the radio the music plays, 'I'm in love with her and I feel fine'"
Year:  1976

Song Title:  Nightmare Avenue
Beatles Reference:  "Don't call me Ringo, call me Paul."
Year:  1994

Song Title:  Speedy's Coming
Beatles Reference:  "Do you like Alice Cooper? Do you like Ringo Starr? Do you like David Bowie friend...."
Year:  1974

Artist:  Simon and Garfunkel
Song Title:  A simple Desultory Phillippic (or how I was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)
Beatles Reference:  "I've been Rolling Stoned and Beatled till I was blind"

Artist:  Styx
Song Title:  Edge of the century
Beatles Reference:  "I was born too late to be a rolling stone. I don't know Jerry Lee and I never met John and Yoko"

Song Title:  Not Dead Yet
Beatles Reference:  "I never said nobody's perfect from head to toe. Not Einstein or Elvis or Lennon & Marx or Marylin Monroe"

Artist:  Sugarloaf
Song Title:  Don't Call Us
Beatles Reference:  : "Sounds like John, Paul and George!"

Artist:  The Temptations
Song Title:  Ball of Confusion
Beatles Reference:  "the Beatles' new record is a gas!"

Artist:  The Tractors
Song Title:  The Tulsa Shuffle
Beatles Reference:  "I love England, I love the Beatles, the Who and the Rolling Stones..."

Artist:  Three Dog Night
Song Title:  Never Been To Spain
Beatles Reference:  "Well, I've never been to England/But I kind of like The Beatles..."

Artist:  U2
Song Title:  God part II
Beatles Reference:  "I don't believe in Goldman, his type is like a curse/Instant Karma's gonna get him if I don't get him first"
(This song is dedicated to John Lennon)

Artist:  Bob Welch
Song Title:  Silver Heels
Beatles Reference:  "if I could sing like Paul McCartney; get funky like Etta James"

Song Title:  The Hustler
Beatles Reference:  "...if I could sing like Paul McCartney; get funky like Kurt Cobain."
 

Artist:  The Who
Song Title:  The Seeker
Beatles Reference:  "I asked Bobby Dylan. I asked The Beatles, I asked Timothy Leary, but he couldn't help me either..."

Artist:  World Party
Song Title:  Sweet Soul Dream
Beatles Reference:  "I got a rare '61 Beatles"

Artist:  Frank Zappa
Song Title:  Joe's Garage
Beatles Reference:  "So picked out a stupid name, had some cards printed up for a couple of bucks.  And we were on our way to fame.  God matching suits and Beatle boots."
 

If you have a non Beatles song reference to add email me! Starshyne