Songs named after literary works

Some of these Iron Maiden titles have been mentioned, but there's several more, so I thought I'd list all I could identify.

Phantom of the Opera
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Where Eagles Dare
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Stranger in a Strange Land
Childhood's End
Lord of the Flies
The Wicker Man
Brave New World
Out Of The Silent Planet
El Dorado
The Man Who Would Be King

 

Tin drum is also the name of a novel by German author Günther Grass

 

Ten more: Title (author/artist)

1. Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote/Deep Blue Something)
2. The Man in the Iron Mask (Alexander Dumas/Billy Bragg)
3. The Roots of Coincidence (Arthur Koestler/Pat Metheny)
4. The Prince (Colin Machiavelli/Madness)
5. Lost Horizon (James Hilton/Todd Rundgren)
6. Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury/Utopia)
7. On the Beach (Nevil Shute/Neil Young (or Chris Rea))
8. Brighton Rock (Graham Greene/Queen)
9. Don Quixote (Malcolm Cervantes/Nik Kershaw)
10. The Castle (Franz Kafka/Love)

 

The Cruel Sea, a 1951 best-selling book by Nicholas Monsarrat, was followed by this UK 1963 hit by The Dakotas:

 

....and the name was also adopted by the Australian band The Cruel Sea.

 

named after a character in Shakespeare's Othello
also their song Midsummer night's scene is a reference to Shakespeare's play Midsummer night's dream

 

Heinlein's earlier stories, which were more in the "hard Science Fiction" vein, were some of the best of the genre. He was particularly good at the time-honoured theme of time travel and time paradoxes.

Later on he started to include more social comment in his stories, and some of that became tiresome, as well as a bit disturbing, as I indicated in a previous post.

A fine example of a case where "I really liked his early stuff".

 

Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel

Anne Sexton, American writer (1928-1974): Mercy Street (play) & 45 Mercy Street (poem)

 

The Fall, "Dice Man"

 

Squeeze, "Up the Junction"

 

I think Manfred Mann also did a song of this name.

 

They did the soundtrack to the movie version.

 

Venus in furs- Velvet Underground , novel by Leopold Sacher-Masoch

 

Scritti Politti, "Lions After Slumber"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Masque of Anarchy" (extract):
"Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number–
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you–
Ye are many — they are few."

 

Neil Young’s song ‘The Bridge’ was inspired by the Hart Crane poem of the same name.

 

Eurythmics did a whole 1984 soundtrack album:

 

Off topic - or maybe not - Marianne Faithfull is a descendant of the (in)famous aron Sacher-Masoch.

 

How To Disappear Completely - Radiohead

 

David Bowie, "Look Back in Anger"

 

Animal Farm, song by The Kinks, book by Orwell

 

Also a Weather Report album

 

"One Brown Mouse" by Jethro Tull is an ode to a Robert Burns' poem "To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785.

 

Hugh Hopper album from 1973...