Literature which inspired Pop songs

EMS_24: "Bright Eyes" by Art Garfunkel

EMS_24: "Unquiet Slumbers for the sleepers" & "In That Quiet Earth", both by Genesis from their album 'Wind and Wuthering'

Tinuvia: Kate Bush "Wuthering Heights"

EMS_24: "Swim with Sam" by A Balladeer

EMS_24: The Band Steppenwolf is named after this book

Tinuvia: Hawkwind "Steppenwind"

EMS_24: David Bowie's 1979's Song with the same title ' I've been waiting so long Look back in anger, driven by the night Til you come'

Tinuvia: The Cure "Killing an Arab"

hipdeep: Led Zeppelin, "Ramble On"

Tinuvia: Blind Guardian "Lord of the Rings"

merrystar: Led Zeppelin: "Achilles' Last Stand"

EMS_24: Abba: "Cassandra"

EMS_24: Talk Talk: "Such a Shame"

szarka: Referenced in the Aimee Mann song "Frankenstein" on the album I'm With Stupid.

EMS_24: T'Pau: "China in Your Hand"

Tinuvia: Iced Earth "Frankenstein"

EMS_24: The Byrds: "Turn! Turn! Turn!"

szarka: King Crimson: "The Sheltering Sky"

EMS_24: The Police: "Tea in the Sahara"

hipdeep: Rolling Stones, "Sympathy for the Devil"

EMS_24: Franz Ferdinand: "Love and Destroy"

EMS_24: Mark Knopfler: "Sailing to Philadelphia"

EMS_24: 'Through the looking glass' - Di-rect (Dutch band from The Hague)

EMS_24: The concept-album Tales of Mysteries and Imagination (1976) by The Alan Parsons

EMS_24: Jack Bruce "The Consul at Sunset" Last sentence of the book is important.

EMS_24: Yes "Turn of the Century" on Pygmalion

EMS_24: from the Album 'Is This Desire?' (1998) P.J. Harvey "Angelene" with the lines: ‘Rose is my color, and white/ Pretty mouth and green my eyes’ - from Nine Stories by J D Salinger

EMS_24: PJ Harvey – "A Perfect Day Elise" from the album 'Is This Desire? ' from 'Nine Stories' by J D Salinger

EMS_24: "Shadows and Tall Trees" by U2 "Lord of the Flies" by Iron Maiden

EMS_24: Boudewijn de Groot, "Kindermeidslied"

EMS_24: ABBA : 'Me and I'

Tinuvia: Iced Earth "Jekyll & Hyde"

szarka: The poem "Longing" inspired Terry Scott Taylor's song "She's All Heart" on the Daniel Amos album Vox Humana.

EMS_24: Florence + the Machine - "Rabbit Heart"

Tinuvia: The Beatles "I Am the Walrus";
Jefferson Airplane "White Rabbit"

EMS_24: David Bowie "We are the Dead"

Tinuvia: David Bowie "1984", "Big Brother",...;
The Offspring "The Future Is Now";
Muse "The Resistance"
Radiohead "2+2=5"