"Space Oddity" and "Ashes to Ashes" are perhaps the most famous sequel songs of any specific rock n roll character (Major Tom).

But it hit me today, there are other ones. In fact in 1959, Buddy Holly wrote "Peggy Sue Got Married" his own musing and update on an early character. It even had such lyrics as:

Do you recall a girl that's been in nearly every song......I just heard a rumour from a friend.....Please don't tell, no-no-no.....I don't say that it's true.

The lines do not appear precisely in this order, but they are all there. I realised this similarity today when listening to the Buddy Holly Apartment Tapes but I've never heard it reported previously.

Major Tom subsequently appeared in:

* Peter Schilling's "Major Tom (Coming Home)"

* Def Leppard's "Rocket"

* Panic On The Titanic's "Major Tom", and

* David Bowie's "Hallo Spaceboy (Pet Shop Boys Remix)" - completing his Major Tom Trilogy.

But what other famous rocknroll character's have been reprised in song?

The Music is Outside

Okay, I guess they have to be on different albums, otherwise there are plenty of examples on 1. Ouside and the Ziggy album. Also on 1 album: Lou Reed's Caroline Says I & II.

Maybe:
Johnny's an american ("I'm afraid of Americans")
John I'm only dancing (two songs)
Johnny is am man ("Repetition")

But I guess it's not really the same character.






"Quoting someone is for the less inventive" - Cryx

Alice Cooper had a song called "Steven" about a boy with mental problems in 1975 on the Welcome to my Nightmare album.
The same Steven is mentioned again in "Wind-up Toy" on the Hey Stoopid album of 1991.

"Are you cool with that?"
"Yes! Absolutely ice box."

there are some dylan songs that are semi sequals. "don't need a weather man to need to know which way the wind blows" is one i can think of.

Later beatles lennon wrote some sequal-ish songs. The "walrus was paul" in glass onion and one or two others.

Neither of these are truly sequels though.

bfp

ps also of note is chubby checkers "let's twist again" and "Merry Twistmas"

And Ground Control gets a namecheck in Robbie William's Rock DJ

Tell them they can laugh at me

I knew there was one from the early '60s when this thread was first posted, I just couldn't think of it. I figured it out today when I heard the sequel on the oldies station in my car with the roasted Outside sticker in the back window.

Anyway...

Lesley Gore's "It's My Party (And I'll Cry If I Want To)" tells the story of the narrator's boyfriend Johnny leaving her for Judy at a party.

In Gore's "Judy's Turn To Cry," the narrator reports that Johnny has left Judy and come back to her.

Sure, it's simple and not nearly as exciting as the similarity between Buddy Holly's lyrics and "Ashes To Ashes," but hey, it's a sequel.

WW

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