Songs Inspired By Literature

- WHO WILL FORGET THE "FANTASTIC" wuthering heights by KATE BUSH????
- Tales of brave Ulysses: CREAM
- Ghost in the machine: The Police

I will get you some more

Turn, turn, turn.....from the Bible...by I believe the song was written by Pete Seeger.....

Mherbert,

This is a great thread  i  Love books!  The two that come to mind immediately! are

The Man of La Mancha { which you have mentioned} Don Quixote. Loved that book!
I still, when i visit my sister in Holland cannot look at a "Windmill" without thinking of that book!   But the Music!
another one of my favourite pieces "To Dream the Impossible Dream" Fab! Takes me right back to my nucleus..

El Cordobes! "Manuel Benitez Peréz" Spains most famous bullfighter {Great book}

Tom Jones, Had a hit with ! "A Boy From Nowhere!" Another beautiful piece based on this book!

Oh my God! Mherbert my head is reeling with stuff. Ah im going  to have to lie down to settle my self!

Heathcliffe's its me your Cathy ive come home now! ah best lie down ?

Old Doll.

Hi
Rick Wakeman recorded an whole album based on the Jules Verne book" Journey to the centre of the earth" in  1974.
Parts of the book are read out to compliment the music.
I had already read the book.
A great prog Rock album.

Ark

An attack on JAMES, a question of course.
DO YOU KNOW who wrote the song "MY WAY"???
I know it belongs now to the US patrimonial history, because the biggest american artists covered it.
It is written, both music and lyrics, by a "French Singer & composer" named CLAUDE FRANCOIS.
The TITLE WAS and still IS: COMME D'HABITUDE (an English traduction should be LIKE ALWAYS.
During a holiday in France, Paul Anka was so impressed by this song, that he started writing English Lyrics, for this song. They met each other, Claude knew Paul, because his career started later (song : 1966?) and one of his heroes was PAUL ANKA. That song travelled to the USA, isn't it clever that Paul Anka wrote English Lyrics? so he had also a big piece of the cake. Once in the USA, every single crooner would have that song on his list, amongst them: Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and yes,even the SID VICIOUS version.
Claude François died at the age of 39 (+ 1978) while replacing a lamp in his bathroom, but still in the water: real idiot to die that way, you could say he did it "my way", of course sad enough inspiring all comedians and jokes. The funeral was quit close and similar as RUDOLPH Valentino, impossible to count the people, and I remember me still all that hysteric behaviour.
I think, if he had written only this song, he would have so much money being the author.

Gitaardocphil, that is very interesting to learn about the composer of "My Way".
I had noticed in the literature list that the writer's name was French.
He died while standing in water and changing a light bulb????? Not an accident!

It is a direct referance to the book Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. The song is about a teacher and one of his students and the sexual tension between the two. Sting was once a schoolteacher and some people speculated that the song was autobiographical.

Michel

The book is a great read yet you are constantly torn between loving and hating the main caracter , Humbert Humbert. You can only hate his manipulations to be with a 12 year old girl, Delores Haze, but his language and the pace of the narration , the story is written as a memoire, draw you in. It's a tough read but a must for any literature buff.

Michel