Who did the orginal version of that song? Her or Pat Bentar? I know which version I like better…
… altho I can’t confirm it (so it may be a UL) that Sympathy For the Devil was written after Jagger had read Mikhail Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita
Not really, most of Maiden’s stuff just takes the titles, Murders in the Rue Morgue has nothing to do with the story, nor does Stranger in a Strange Land, Number of the Beast and a few others. Where Eagles Dare is based on an EAstwood movie, I have no idea right now about Run Silent and Seventh Son has no book or story it was taken from, at least none I’ve ever heard about.
Maiden does have a few others though, Lord of the Flies is the only one I can come up with right now though.
No one has said Rush’s 2112 which is based on Rand’s Anthem.
Virgin Steele has two albums House of Atreus Act I and II are based on the Greek plays of Aggammenon and his family.
Jag Panzer did Hamlet as a whole album.
As I recall, Kate Bush wrote or co-wrote Wuthering Heights and originally released it in 1977. Benetar’s version was early 80’s.
Back to the OP, how about The Alarm’s The Stand, with mentions of the walking dude in his worn down cowboy boots, Trashcan, and “the plague claimed man and son” has to be refering to the novel of the same name by Stephen King.
Eric Clapton wrote the biggest hit of his life, “Layla”, for Derek and the Dominoes after reading a translation of the 12th-century Persian epic poem Layla and Majnun by Nizami Ganjavi (1140-1202). The most famous Sufi love story of all time, it tells of how Majnun sacrifices his whole life out of love for Layla (Majnun representing the Sufi spiritual seeker and Layla representing Allah). Clapton saw himself in that story as he was pining away with love for Patti Harrison (and eventually stole her away from George).
Ambrosia had a hit with “Nice, Nice, Very Nice”, whose lyrics came directly from a “calypso” in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Cat’s Cradle.
Utopia (Todd Rundgren’s group) did songs called “Fahrenheit 451” (after the book by Ray Bradbury) and “Lysistrata” (after the play by Aristophanes).
It was originally, “Hello, Mrs. Roosevelt…”
Actually most of the album Diamond Dogs (“Big Brother” etc.) was based on 1984. It was written for a musical version of the book that never happened (probably a good thing).
Magazine’s “Song From Under the Floorboard” was based on Dostoyevsky’s “Notes From Underground”.
Pink FLoyds first album Pipers at the Gates of Dawn.
A truly psychedelic experience to be sure, with most of the songs (including the title track) loosely based on stories from The Wind and the Willows.
One of Syd’s best works, IMHO.
Yes, and that in turn inspired a science fiction novella by Richard Cowper, “Piper at the Gates of Dawn,” published in 1976. But the phrase itself was originally the title of a chapter in The Wind in the Willows as you noted.
Also in 1976, Genesis released Wind and Wuthering. It was rather loosely inspired by Wuthering Heights, the main indication being the consecutive titles of 2 instrumental tracks, “Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers…” “…In that Quiet Earth” which are of course the final phrase in the book.
I’m going to have to defer to someone named Edward The Head, but if you check the link I gave in the first post, they go through some of the connections to books/films/historical events. Even if I/they are way off base, it’s still interesting reading for a Maiden fan.
I stand corrected. Twice in one day. Yippee.
I guess this means that the scene in Seven where Easy Read-- I mean Morgan Freeman is doing research and pulls a copy of The Canturbury Tales off the shelf while Bach’s Air on the G String plays in the background is not a sly reference. I’ll make a note of that. Thanks.
I was reading Fenris’s thread about Heinlein, and it struck me! Yes, I do know a song that is based on a book. Leon Russell wrote a song Stranger in a Strange Land based on the Heinlen novel of the same name.