Editing Howard Hughes (section)

===Music===

* [[John Hartford]]'s song "Howard Hughes Blues" from his 1972 album [[Morning Bugle]] is a philosophical reflection on fame and fortune in the public eye: "But success is just a mess of overdues / For old Howard Hughes and all of his blues."
* The 1973 song "Broadway melody of 1974" by Genesis referenced Howard Hughes: "There's Howard Hughes in blue suede shoes / Smiling at the majorettes, smoking Winston cigarettes".<ref>{{Citation |title=Genesis - Fly on a Windshield/Broadway Melody of 1974 | date=March 10, 2011 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9X2QtzCvBQ |language=en |access-date=August 21, 2022}}</ref>
* The 1974 song "[[Workin' at the Car Wash Blues]]" by [[Jim Croce]] compares the main protagonist of the song to Howard Hughes in one of the lyrics.
* The 1974 song "[[The Wall Street Shuffle]]" by English rock band [[10cc]] directly references Hughes and his ways of life in the last verse.
* The name of the musical group [[The Hues Corporation]] who had the 1974 hit song "[[Rock the Boat (The Hues Corporation song)|Rock the Boat]]" was selected since it was a heterophonic spelling of Hughes as in Howard Hughes.
* The song "Me and Howard Hughes" by Irish band [[The Boomtown Rats]] on their 1978 album ''[[A Tonic for the Troops]]'' is about the title subject.
* The song "Closet Chronicles" by American rock band [[Kansas (band)|Kansas]] on their 1977 album ''[[Point of Know Return (album)|Point of Know Return]]'' is a Howard Hughes allegory.
* The song "Ain't No Fun (Waiting 'Round To Be a Millionaire)" by [[AC/DC]] on their 1976 album "[[Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap]]" singer [[Bon Scott]] referenced Howard Hughes toward the end of the song: "Hey, hello Howard, how you doin', my next door neighbour? Oh, yea... Get your fuckin' jumbo jet off my airport"
* The 1983 song "Casanova Brown" by [[Teena Marie]] includes the lyric "He's had more girls than Howard Hughes had money".
* Hughes' name is mentioned in the title and the lyrics of the 2002 song "Bargain Basement Howard Hughes" by [[Jerry Cantrell]].
*The 2008 song "Howard" by American pop-punk band Bayside is written about Hughes.
* The 2012 song "Nancy From Now On" by American songwriter [[Father John Misty]] likens Hughes' destructive and erratic tendencies to the singer's own.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://genius.com/Father-john-misty-nancy-from-now-on-lyrics |title=Nancy From Now On |website=genius.com |access-date=November 12, 2021 }}{{unreliable source?|date=November 2021}}</ref>
* The 1996 album "[[Thanks for the Ether]]" by [[Rasputina (band)|Rasputina]] features a song titled "Howard Hughes" about Hughes' eccentricities and isolation in his later life.