Songs Rockers Wrote About Their Bandmates

There are times that people in rock bands write tunes about other people in the band--sometimes they are tribute songs, like Pink Floyd writing "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" for bandmate Syd Barrett, who left the band with mental illness, and "Under a Raging Moon," done by Roger Daltrey as a tribute to his Deceased Who bandmate, drummer Keith Moon...mostly, rockers seem to have written songs about bandmates they have a beef with--Theres Paul McCartney's song "Too Many People," written about the annoyances of John and Yoko Lennon--what McCartney felt was preachiness and Yoko's interferences, and the couple pushing causes...John Lennon seemingly retaliating with his solo song "How Do You Sleep?"...you've got any number of songs from the soap opera that existed inside Fleetwood Mac, with marriages, affairs, breakups, etc....there were "Go Your Own Way," "Second Hand News," "Dreams," and more...There's Lynyrd Skynyrd's "That Smell," written by Ronnie Van Zant warning his bandmates to quit doing so many drugs, mentioning in the song Gary Rossington's loaded crash into a tree with the lyric "Oak tree, you're in my way..." check out some of the band feuds verbalized in the lyrics of lots of songs here: https://ultimateclassicrock.com/songs-about-bandmates/