I know you've been waiting for this one and I am sorry it took me so long but… what music would famous dead people listen to for kicks? I mean, seriously, it is an interesting question, right? In our on going efforts to fill up space, here is rock nyc's "I Wonder What The King Is Listening To Tonight?"
Genghis Khan – Iron Maiden – Something obvious, in your face and loud.
Adolph Hitler – U2 – Something as egocentric yet insecure as Hitler was.
Abraham Lincoln – Aretha Franklin – because it would be be the aural realization of a dream he had.
FDR – Bruce Springsteen – A coupla privileged boys pretending they have the common touch
Mark Twain – Randy Newman – It takes a satirist to know a satirist
Winston Churchill – John Lennon – It takes an extremist to know an extremist.
William Shakespeare – Laura Marling – Folk mates
Napoleon Bonaparte – Arcade Fire – Overcompensating… in French
Jesus Christ – The B-52s – Because that cat knew a party.
Mohammed – Led Zeppelin – A very take no prisoners type of Prophet
Buddha – Cat Stevens – I mean after he wrote pop songs but before he found Allah. Say circa Harold And Maude, Cat was very calm and smart.
Thomas Hardy – Fairport Convention – Very green England
Vladimir Nabakov – Biggie Smalls – Both are master story tellers and masters of language.
L. Ron Hubbard – Sigue Sigue Sputnik – All dressed up in sci-fi gear and nowhere to go