Waterloo in Popular Culture - Music

Music

• The band ABBA made a song titled "Waterloo" that won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974.
• "The Battle of Waterloo" is a traditional tune for great Highland bagpipe.
• The Bee Gees recorded a song called "Walking Back To Waterloo" for their 1971 album Trafalgar.
• "Waterloo" is a song by American metal band Iced Earth, that is about the battle at Waterloo. It appears on the album The Glorious Burden, but is not available on the regular American release.
• "Waterloo" is a song by British pop band Suede, and appeared on their top 5 single "Electricity".
• "The Battle of Waterloo" is a song by the German metal band Running Wild on their album Death or Glory.
• "Waterloo" was a 1959 country song recorded by Stonewall Jackson. The chorus is:

Waterloo, Waterloo

Where will you meet your Waterloo?

Every puppy has its day

Everybody has to pay

Everybody has to meet his Waterloo.

And the last verse ends:

And that's how Tom Dooley met his Waterloo.

• The Battle of Waterloo is mentioned in the song, Lydia the Tattooed Lady:

Oh Lydia The Queen of Tattoo.

On her back is The Battle of Waterloo.

Beside it The Wreck of the Hesperus too.

And proudly above waves the red, white, and blue.

You can learn a lot from Lydia!

• "You're My Waterloo" is an unreleased song by The Libertines.
• Waterloo to Anywhere is the debut album by Dirty Pretty Things, though this is more likely a reference to the London railway station.
• La Belle Alliance is an alternative electronic band from Cork, Ireland named after the Inn which served as Napoleon's headquarters during the battle of Waterloo.
• The Irish singer-songwriter Percy French's song "Slattery's Mounted Fut" opens with a satirical comparison between Waterloo and an Irish rebel group:

You've heard of Julius Caesar and the great Napoleon too,

And how the Cork Militia beat the Turks at Waterloo;

But there's a page of glory that, as yet, remains uncut,

And that's the warlike story of the Slattery Mounted Fut.

• "Waterloo Sunset" by British rock band The Kinks, arguably amongst the most famous songs referencing Waterloo, is actually an ode to London's Waterloo railway terminus.