Jake Gyllenhaal
Styx - Great White Hope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6SxD-AqATs

Why? From Google: "Billy "The Great" Hope (Jake Gyllenhaal), the reigning light heavyweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle"

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Josh Gad
Elvis Costello-God's Comic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7dzTCvLfN0

why? Well he's not dead, but God/Gad is close as is The Comedians/Comic.


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Question:
The HeadHunters - God Made Me Funky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvoenLNWytA

Why? Did this inspire the beat for Silent Treatment (Black Thought's '87 You And Yours Remix): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVBOszCPXtI