History ShoutOut / JoJosBizarreAdventure

* Satoru Akefu turns out to be '''Tooru''''s Stand [[Music/ElvisPresley Wonder of U]].

** Right before switching over to Elvis Presley's "The Wonder of You" to keep his composure, an emotionally-distressed Tooru is seen listening to [[Music/BlizzardOfOzz "Crazy Train"]].

* After Dio has forcefully kissed Erina, he makes a familiar gesture, crossing his hands over his torso. It's the same gesture that Juda, the final villain from the Rei arc in ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' does in his introduction.
* When Jonathan meets Dio at his castle, he boasts to have come from Hell to fight him, much like [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Kenshiro shouted to Shin]] before their duel. In another parallel, after Dio is defeated and falls off the tower, a boy asks why Jonathan couldn't truly hate Dio.

* After Dio has forcefully kissed Erina, he makes a familiar gesture, crossing his hands over his torso. It's the same gesture that Juda, the final villain from the Rei arc in [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar]] does in his introduction.

* When Joseph first meets Okuyasu, he mishears Okuyasu's name and calls him [[Manga/OsomatsuKun "Osomatsu"]].

** Biggie's [[ShortLivedBigImpact two]] album titles [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] the Stand's status as a DeathActivatedSuperpower: "Music/ReadyToDie" indicates Carne's willingness to give himself to Mista's bullets to call his Stand into action, and the posthumous "Music/LifeAfterDeath" signifies that Notorious B.I.G handily outlived its User, wreaking deadly havoc on Giorno and company.
* '''Risotto Nero''''s Stand: Music/{{Metallica}}, with its {{kiai}} being named after the album ''[[Music/LoadAndReLoad Load]]''

** Akira proclaims that he aspires to live, "as hard and vicariously," as Music/JimiHendrix and Music/JeffBeck, with two of his other inspirations being [[Music/VanHalen Eddie Van Halen]] and Music/StevieRayVaughan. Speaking of Eddie Van Halen, in the anime adaptation, Akira's right-handed guitar tap sounds [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong nearly identical]] to 'Music/VanHalen's "Eruption".

* '''Lucy Steel''' is named after Music/TheBeatles song 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds'.

* Fujiko Fujiyama’s Stand: [[Music/LadyGaga Bad Romance]], for a spinoff involving Jolyne Cujoh.

** An alternate universe '''Dolcio Ciocclata''''s Stand: [[Film/TheBlob Blob]].

* '''Tonio Trussardi''''s Stand: Music/PearlJam.

* '''[[Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer Tarkus]]''' and '''[[Music/{{Yes}} Bruford]]'''

** Akira proclaims that he aspires to live, "as hard and vicariously," as Music/JimiHendrix and Music/JeffBeck, with two of his other inspirations being [[Music/VanHalen Eddie Van Halen]] and Music/StevieRayVaughan. Speaking of Eddie Van Halen, in the anime adaptation, Akira's right-handed guitar tap sounds [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong nearly identical]] to ''Music/VanHalen''[='=]s "Eruption".

** Killer Queen's Second Bomb Sheer Heart Attack (a dual reference to both [[Music/SheerHeartAttack the album]] and the song that appeared on [[Music/NewsOfTheWorld a completely different album]]) and final form Killer Queen [[Music/TheGame Bites the Dust]] are both named after Queen songs.

* Green Dolphin Street Prison is a reference to the film ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dolphin_Street_(film) Green Dolphin Street]]'', as well as the jazz Standard "On Green Dolphin Street".

* '''Koichi Hirose''''s Stand: [[Music/PinkFloyd Echoes]].

* Yoshikage's father, '''Yoshihiro Kira''''s Stand: [[Music/PinkFloyd Atom Heart Father]].

Araki has a big thing for non-Japanese music, particuarly classic rock and prog rock. The sheer number of references in his work is baffling. This was a nightmare regarding translation, since most of the names were copyrighted, so they had to rename a lot.[[note]]And that's not counting years of the fans directly translating the names to the band names when the pronunciation was different, e.g. Wamuu rather than Wham! (Wamu!).[[/note]] And as it went on, a little pop group here, a little rapper there appeared, in addition to more contemporary bands.

* Green Dolphin Street Prison is a reference to the film ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dolphin_Street Green Dolphin Street]]'', as well as the jazz Standard "On Green Dolphin Street".

** Surface is also a reference to Perman's (a work of ''Creator/FujikoFujio'') eponymous copy-robots. In the series, the copy-robot transforms into an identical clone to help the main character keep his secret identity during missions. Hazamada himself points this out to Josuke, [[LampshadedTheObscureReference who has no clue what he's even talking about]].

* '''[[Music/OingoBoingo Oingo & Boingo]]''', whose names are changed in the Viz translation for '''[[Music/ThePolice Zenyatta]] and [[Music/ZenyattaMondatta Mondatta]]'''

* '''Toyohiro's''' Stand: Film/SuperFly (obviously more the soundtrack than the film).

* '''Mario Zucchero''''s Stand: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_Machine Soft Machine]]

* '''Formaggio''''s Stand: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Feat Little Feet]]

* '''Tama's''' Stand: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stray_Cats Stray Cat]].

* '''Terunosuke Miyamoto's''' Stand: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_%28UK_band%29 Enigma]].

* '''Aya Tsuji's''' Stand: Cinderella refers to both the fairytale and also the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella_(band) band from the 80's]].
* Koichi's family has an old dog named [[Music/ThePolice "Police."]]

* '''Ken Ooyanagi''''s Stand: [[Music/BoyzIIMen Boy II Man]].

* '''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Midler Midler]]'''

** Tama is a blue British Shorthair who dies, is buried, then comes back to life supernaturally, meaner than before, similar to Church from ''Film/PetSematary1989''.

* Avdol's father ([[spoiler:or rather, Avdol disguising himself as his father]]) has two chickens named Music/{{Prince}} and Music/{{Michael|Jackson}}.

* '''Wang Chan''' → Wang Chung, a pop group of TheEighties.

* Lisa Lisa kills Wired Beck in classic ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' fashion - complete with Joseph assuring Beck that "YouAreAlreadyDead."

** Speaking of the OST, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJaWiZbvfQs Welcome to the World]]" opens with a guitar riff too similar to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LLzPPFc21o Owner of a Lonely Heart]]" for it to be unintentional. Cemented by the fact that "Owner" and "Roundabout", the show's ending theme, are both songs by the band Music/{{Yes}}.

* '''Music/{{Iggy|Pop}}'''

* '''[[Music/OingoBoingo Oingo & Boingo]]''', whose names are changed in the Viz translation for '''[[Music/ThePolice Zenyatta and Mondatta]]'''

* The DramaCD features an old man with the Stand [[Music/SignOTheTimes Strange Relation]]

* '''Josuke Higashikata''''s Stand: [[Music/PinkFloyd Crazy Diamond]]. The official localized name is "Shining Diamond" which retains the reference, though on a more subtle level.

* '''Reimi Sugimoto''' has no Stand, but has two references to Music/PinkFloyd: her name is a play on "See Emily Play" and she has a dog called "Arnold".
** Her backstory seems to be a direct reference to the urban legend 'Humans Can Lick Too'.

** Killer Queen's Second Bomb [[Music/NewsOfTheWorldQueen Sheer Heart Attack]] and final form Killer Queen [[Music/TheGame Bites the Dust]] are both named after Queen songs.
** Kira himself is designed after Music/DavidBowie [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/00/6a/b2/006ab2205d1d9d95532e46a3229eac76.jpg as he appeared]] during his "Serious Moonlight" tour. Also, with a character modeled after David Bowie using Stands named after Queen songs, it's no wonder that a SerialKiller such as himself is constantly [[Music/HotSpace "Under Pressure"]].

* When Okuyasu, at Tonio's restaurant, eats the mozzarella and tomato appetizer he finds delicious, he compares the dish to a Music/SimonAndGarfunkel duet, a sketch of Ucchan and Nanchan (a japanese comedy duo) and to ''Manga/TomorrowsJoe''. In the dub, the Ucchan and Nanchan comparison is changed to one of Creator/AbbottAndCostello.

* '''Narancia Ghirga''''s Stand: Music/{{Aerosmith}}. His design may also be a refrence to the song [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude_(Looks_Like_a_Lady) "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)"]], by Aerosmith themselves

* '''Emporio Alniño''''s Stand: [[Music/TalkingHeads Burning Down The House]]. Emporio himself is named for Giorgio Armani's sub-label ''Emporio Armani''.

* '''Enrico Pucci''''s Stands: Music/{{Whitesnake}}, [[Music/PaulMcCartney C-Moon]] and [[Music/LedZeppelin Stairway To Heaven]]/[[Music/{{Queen}} Made in Heaven]]. Enrico is named for Enrico Coveri and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio_Pucci Emilio Pucci]].