50 Best Rock Songs About Legends
Greatest Rock Tracks That Immortalize Legends
There’s a certain charge that comes with hearing a song that carries the weight of a legend. Not the polished kind from documentaries, but the raw, half-mythic stories that live in riffs and distortion. It’s that sound that feels bigger than the people who made it. A track that stretches across decades and still lands like a punch in the gut. Some of these were written with legends in mind. Others stumbled into it by accident. Either way, they hit that strange space between memory and superstition, where a guitar solo feels like someone clawing at the edge of eternity.
There’s something almost cinematic when rock tries to touch immortality. You can hear it in the vocals that strain too far, the drums that refuse to fade. Some bands turn their heroes into ghosts, others make themselves the myth. It’s loud, sometimes ridiculous, sometimes pure lightning. The energy cuts through the noise in a way that feels alive and a little haunted. These tracks pull from the same well that fuels pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that try to chase legacy instead of love. Not every one speaks directly to greatness, but they carry that pulse—the kind that keeps names from fading.
Every generation finds its own version of a legend to scream for. The sound changes, the shape of the stage changes, but the urge to turn someone into a story stays the same. That’s what ties these tracks together. They echo in arenas, in headphones, in the middle of nights that feel too big to hold. Some tracks might not literally honor anyone, yet they move with that spirit. Here are the best rock songs about legends.
Top 10 Legends Rock Songs
1. 'Stairway to Heaven' by Led Zeppelin
2. 'Achilles Last Stand' by Led Zeppelin
3. 'Tom Sawyer' by Rush
4. 'Flight of Icarus' by Iron Maiden
5. 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Iron Maiden
6. 'Knights of Cydonia' by Muse
7. 'Heroes' by David Bowie
8. 'Holding Out for a Hero' by Bonnie Tyler
9. 'Cortez the Killer' by Neil Young
10. 'My Hero' by Foo Fighters
Rock Music About Legendary Figures #11 to 20
11. 'Godzilla' by Blue Öyster Cult
12. 'Twilight of the Thunder God' by Amon Amarth
13. 'The Trooper' by Iron Maiden
14. 'Tales of Brave Ulysses' by Cream
15. 'Venus' by Shocking Blue
16. 'The Odyssey' by Symphony X
17. 'Freya' by The Sword
18. 'Sir Lancelot And The Black Knight' by Rick Wakeman
19. 'Medusa' by Anthrax
20. 'Home at Last' by Steely Dan
Classic Rock Songs on Myths and Legends #21 to 30
21. 'Rasputin' by Boney M.
22. 'Alexander The Great' by Iron Maiden
23. 'Orestes' by A Perfect Circle
24. 'Working Class Hero' by John Lennon
25. 'Juke Box Hero' by Foreigner
26. 'Kryptonite' by 3 Doors Down
27. 'Xanadu' by Rush
28. 'Sympathy For The Devil' by The Rolling Stones
29. 'Rolling Thunder' by The Sound
30. 'The Great Chinggis Khan' by The HU
Iconic Rock Tracks About Heroes and Lore #31 to 40
31. 'Grendel' by Marillion
32. 'The Battle of Cape Fear River' by Alestorm
33. 'Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner' by Warren Zevon
34. 'No More Heroes' by The Stranglers
35. 'The Legend of Wooley Swamp' by The Charlie Daniels Band
36. 'Warrior' by Riot
37. 'Impi' by Johnny Clegg and Juluka
38. 'Highwayman' by The Highwaymen
39. 'Wonderboy' by Tenacious D
40. 'The Wizard' by Black Sabbath
Top Rock Music Selections on Legendary Status #41 to 50
41. 'Emerald' by Thin Lizzy
42. 'The Four Horsemen' by Aphrodite's Child
43. 'Joan Of Arc' by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
44. 'The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead' by XTC
45. 'The Great Gig in the Sky' by Pink Floyd
46. 'One' by Metallica
47. 'Disposable Heroes' by Metallica
48. 'Save us from the Cyclops' by Robert Savage
49. 'Gimme Shelter' by The Rolling Stones
50. 'We Don't Need Another Hero' by Tina Turner
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