...did "XTC vs. Adam Ant"

have a song called Dory Previn.

The same album also features Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken, where the Lloyd in question is Lloyd Cole.

ABC - "When Smokey Sings"
Billy Bragg - "Levi Stubbs' Tears"

has a piece on one of his solo piano albums titled "Al Green".

Van Morrison - "Jackie Wilson Said"

It's Lulu – The Boo Radleys
Bo Diddley is Jesus – The Jesus & Mary Chain
I Remember Elvis Presley – Danny Mirror (as featured on TV Hell)
The Bastard Sons of Dean Friedman – Half Man Half Biscuit

"Listening to The Higsons"

recorded a song called "Mother".

But it's not about anyone in Frank's band.

Geno

Van The Man/Dexys - Jackie Wilson Said

LCD Soundsystem's "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House"

William is supposedly Billy Mackenzie, and then there's Sandie Shaw's Steven You Don't Eat Meat about Morrisey.

had a track called Delia Derbyshire in honour of the eletronic music pioneer

"Something About The Beatles"

Let's Make Love and Listen To Death From Above

Cars and Girls is sort of about The Boss.

Mogwai - Nick Drake
Butthole Surfers - Julio Iglesias

"I Feel Better Than James Brown"

by Scritti Politti?

OK it's in brackets but still part of the title.

Cool As Kim Deal

The Bastard Son of Dean Friedman
Joy Division Oven Gloves
Achtung Bono
The Ballad of Climie Fisher
Eno Collaboration
Styx Gig

Not to mention Nerys Hughes, Fred Titmus, Ken Moult, etc.

by Luke Haynes

by Nils Lofgren

Which is about Keith Richards.

Teenage Fanclub - Neil Jung

Alison's Starting To Happen is about Alison Galloway, the drummer with Aussie band Smudge

Elvis Presley & America

Song For Robert Zimmerman by Bowie
Song for Andy Warhol by the Dame

by The Fall

Song for Dan Treacy

For Stephen Patrick aka Morrisey.

On the same album (The Sporadic Recordings) is a track called Shirt No.7 in tribute to the Scottish footballer Pat Nevin (who's been known to spin a few indie platters in his time)

by Ride. A 12" bonus track from their last single 'Black Nite Crash', which like its parent album 'Tarantula' was pretty lame, apart from this track, I've always had a soft spot for this ode to the late, great Plonk.

Or doesn't that count.

Haven't we recently done this?

Zep

Do albums count?

Roll over Vaughn Williams
Al Bowley's in heaven
Mingus eyes
Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
The great Valerio
Dear Janet Jackson

Oh and Don McLean - "Vincent" (did you see what I did there). The veal's good.

Miles Davis - John McLaughlin (on Bitches Brew)

John McLaughlin - Miles Davis (on Electric Dreams)

Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone

(coat collected, door gently closing behind me...)

Blues for Barbara Hepworth
and Dorothy Parker Blue
by The Real Tuesday Weld
Phew...

Nick Lowe's ep Bowi

by Luke Haines
Like Dylan In the Movies - belle & Sebastian

by Ry Cooder

The Ballad of Dorothy Parker - Prince
" " " John and Yoko - The Beatles

Blind Willie McTell

Loretta Lynn - Hey Loretta!

Let Robeson Sing.

In the version here the Manics themselves even get a namecheck during Ian Brown's, cough, rap in the middle 8. (Rocking in Havana like a Manic Street Preacher...)

Pete Wentz is the Only Reason We're Famous by Cobra Starship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_Starship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Wentz

Even Better Than The Real Thing - U2?

"The Day I Saw Bo Diddley In Washington Square" by Willie Nile...

...which, unsurprisngly, is all about the day that he saw Bo Diddley in aforementioned scruffy green with a pretend Arc de Triomphe in Noo Yawk.

Carol King - Oh Neil

The Hold Steady

"I dreamt I saw Phil Ochs last night"

Beethoven - Beatles
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
Lady Sings the Blues - Billie Holliday

by The Band

by...er...Bo Diddley

warning may contains traces of early 80's sax solo

by Julian Cope, in response to 'Julian Cope is Dead' by Bill Drummond

Wilco's Bob Dylan's 49th Beard.
SFA's The Very Best of Neil Diamond
Wilco's Wilco (the Song)

by Cake

the Special A.K.A. - Nelson Mandela
Kraftwerk - Franz Schubert
Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
MGMT - Brian Eno
Mika - Grace Kelly
Peter Gabriel - Biko
Nirvana - Frances Farmer will have her revenge on Seattle
Madhouse - Nixon's ego trip
Simon & Garfunkle - So long, Frank Lloyd Wright
Scissor Sisters - Paul McCartney
John Grant - Sigourney Weaver
Funkadelic - Smokey
Kim Carnes - Bette Davis eyes
Cornershop - Brimful of Asha

U2 - Pride in the name of Love (two for one)
Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown Traffic
Joan Armatrading - Drop the Pilot

by Simple Kid

and, Firehose - For The Singer Of REM.

by House of Love.

Looking at the list think it woul be easier to list the bands without songs named after them.
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Athletico Spizz 80
carcass
and erm Cud

Dr Lee PHD - Beastie Boys
Rustin Man - Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man (allowed?)
The Prince - Madness
Hats off to Roy Harper - Led Zeppelin

Jonathan Richman - Velvet Undergroun

Nick Cave Dolls

David Bowie Wants Ideas

Joe Cornish

Linda Thompson - Whiskey, Bob Copper and Me

A lovely little ditty about the great Carol Kaye who played bass on over 10,000 sessions over a 55 year career - including Simon and Garfunkel, the Everley Brothers, Beach Boys and many Phil Spector hits to name but a few. She played bass on 'La Bamba', too.

"Steve McQueen" and also "Timothy B. Schmidt."

Leonard's view of Courtney

by, erm, The Monkees

By Loudon Wainwright III - about John Lennon's death

Calling Elvis by Mark Knopfler - a song inspired by not being able to contact his then wife while away on tour. 'It was like trying to call Elvis'. Released in 1991

Unlikely to happen in this current age I would have thought.

but as the thread title said artists there is "Vincent" by Don McLean and of course "Monet" by Pink Floyd.

I'll get me coat...

Just had notice of the new album by the mighty Mogwai, and they're at it again with a track called "You're Lionel Richie".

Don't waste time trying to become famous so someone writes a song about you. Simply change your name to that of a well known song.

Yrs

Eleanor Rigby
Herts

Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson, (Tina Turner)...

i always use the first one.Do eponymous tracks count ?
Glen Tipton -Sun Kil Moon
Nick Drake tape -Clem Snide
The Night Hank Williams Came to Town-Johnny Cash
Jimmy James -The Beastie Boys (Technically not about the Vagabonds leader,but WTH)
Ice Cube-Clem Snide
Feel like Buddy Holly-Alvin Stardust
Devotchka-Devotchka
Minor Threat-Minor Threat
Hey hey we're the Monkees-The Monkees
Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us-Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

back to back here on East Glamorgan Hospital Radio you just heard the chartbound sound of Sultans Of Ping FC with "The Last Temptation of Chris De Burgh" (bit of a strange title, that one) followed by Take That and "Take That & Party". Aaaaand going up to the news now, do you remember this one, iiit's the fantastic Talk Talk with a number simply called ...Talk Talk..."

Picasso's Mandolin

by The House Of Love

American Music Club

Fine song that.

Is the Don an artist? We could have used him this summer just gone

That's the name of the performers first, by the way.

Perhaps I missed it...

put a song called Marvin Gaye on his album Home.

The Animals - Tha Ballad of Bo Diddley.

There's "Lighten Up, Morrissey" by Sparks
Has he appeared on this list more than anyone else?
A few more:
Hey Chuck Berry - Southern Culture On The Skids
Debbie Gibson is Pregnant With My Two Headed Love Child - Mojo Nixon
Jonathan, Jonathan - The Rockingbirds

I'm assuming that ABC by The Jackson 5 doesn't count!

Lionel Ritchie's 'ELO' ?

I'm free

Had a hit with "Rainbow"

Pablo Picasso by The Modern Lovers. Now that's what I call an artist.

By Paul Melacon
http://open.spotify.com/track/6NMwr0hnnCUiOy0eagpuvB

Barenaked Ladies.

Also had Be My Yoko Ono.