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."  In the video for this song, the drummer of Audio A. is wearing a John Lennon T-shirt (the famous NYC one).  The lead singer points in the direction of the drummer during the Beatles line.
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...."

Song Title: Life on Mars?
Beatles Reference:  The workers are on strike because Lennon's on sale again.

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:  Concrete Blonde
Song Title:  God is a Bullet
Beatles Reference:  John Lennon, Doctor King, Harvey Milk all for g-----n nothing God is a bullet have mercy on us everyone"

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

Song Title:  Ordinary Morning
Beatles References:  "I'm only sleeping, John, is anybody out there?  Don't the wounded birds still sing?"

Song Title:  Maybe Angles
Beatles Reference:  "She knows Jesus, John Lennon, and Cobain personally."
 

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: House of Love
Song Title:  Beatles and the Stones
Beatles Reference:  "The Beatles and the Stones makes it good to be alone"

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:  The Guess Who
Song Title: Friends of Mine
Beatles Reference: 'You got the Magical Mystery Tour and Kurt is the Walrus..'

Song Title:  Pink Wine Sparkles in the Glass
Beatles Reference:  'McCartney and Lennon just paid all the bills'

Artist:  Lonestar
Song Title:  Don't Let's Talk About Lisa
Beatles Reference:  "And do you think the Beatles should have really gotten back together?"

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

Artist:  Mamas and the Papas
Song Title:  Mansions
Beatles Reference:  "Beatles and Stones call on the phone to come and go"

Artist: Marilyn Manson
Song Title:  Disposable Teens {Holy Wood}
Beatles Reference:  You say you want an evolution? The ape was a great big hit You say you a revolution man...and I say that you're full of sh--.

Artist:  Maniac Street Preachers
Song Title: Motown Juck
Beatles Reference: I laughed when Lennon got shot!
 

Artist:  Millencolin
Song Title:  Man or Mouse
Beatles Reference:  "Hear me, I sound like a Beatle..."
 

Artist:  Mott the Hoople (written by David Bowie)
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 cross-legged 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:  Paul Revere and the Raiders
Song Title:  Just Like Me
Beatles Reference:  "It's just like me to say to you Love me do and I'll be true"
 

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: Life is Real
Beatles Reference: "... Lennon is a genius, living in every pore..."

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: SR-71
Song Title: "Paul McCartney"
Beatles Reference (besides the title alone!):  Reference to Paul is Dead hoopla by the line "In a world so much brighter if Paul were still alive" and also the video is a dead-on spoof of A Hard Day's Night with a bunch of girls chasing the group everywhere. (Also another where they run into a building and right back out like in the police chase scene.)

Artist:  Stackridge
Song Title:  Dangerous Bacon
Beatles Reference:  "A silent admiration for the boys in the Beatle boots had turned me on to C, F, and G."

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: The Trashmen
Song: Dancing With Santa
Beatles Reference: "Over by the door were the English boys, singing 'I Want to Hold Your Hand', woooo..."
 

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:  Shania Twain
Song Title:  When
Beatles Reference:  " I'd love to wake up smiling--full of the joys of spring and hear on CNN that Elvis lives again and that John's back with the Beatles and they're goin on tour. I'd be the first in line for tickets---gotta see that show for sure.
 

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)

Song Title:   Even Better than the real thing
Beatles Reference:  In the video for this song, you can spot the band dressed in complete Sgt. Pepper customes.

Artist:  Wall of Voodoo
Song Title:  Far Side of Crazy
Beatles Reference:  I'm Pilate and Jesus/And I wept when Lennon died/Yet I envied his assailant/When I visited the shrine/I cried for all those Beatle Fans/So old so quick they grow/I follow the example to destroy/What I love most

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"

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.  Got  matching suits and Beatle boots."
 

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