Literature which inspired Pop songs

szarka: Inspired multiple songs, including the immortal classic "Bilbo Baggins" by Leonard Nimoy.

hipdeep: Leonard Nimoy, "Bilbo Baggins"

merrystar: Led Zeppelin, "Over the Hills and Far Away"

Tinuvia: Blind Guardian "The Bard's Song"

hipdeep: Led Zeppelin, "Ramble On"

Tinuvia: Blind Guardian "Lord of the Rings"

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"

Tinuvia: Iron Maiden "Brave New World";
The Strokes "Soma"

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"

Tinuvia: Hawkwind "The War I Survived"

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"

Tinuvia: The Cure "Killing an Arab"

hipdeep: Rush, "Tom Sawyer"

Tinuvia: Rob Zombie "Never Gonna Stop (The Red Red Kroovy)"

EMS_24: "Bright Eyes" by Art Garfunkel

Tinuvia: Sting "Moon over Bourbon Street"

Tinuvia: Jefferson Airplane "ReJoyce";
Kate Bush "The Sensual World"

EMS_24: Florence + the Machine - "Rabbit Heart"

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

Tinuvia: Nirvana "Scentless Apprentice"

Tinuvia: Metallica "For Whom the Bell Tolls"

Tinuvia: Blind Guardian "Guardian of the Blind";
Pennywise "Pennywise"

EMS_24: ABBA : 'Me and I'

Tinuvia: Iced Earth "Jekyll & Hyde"

Tinuvia: Anthrax "Misery Loves Company"

hipdeep: The Ramones, "Pet Sematary"

Tinuvia: Iron Maiden "Rime of the Ancient Mariner";
Bastille "Weight of Living, Pt. I"

Tinuvia: Metallica "The Thing That Should Not Be", "The Call of Ktulu", "All Nightmare Long"

Tinuvia: Black Sabbath "Behind the Wall of Sleep"

merrystar: Taylor Swift, "Love Story", Dire Straits, "Romeo and Juliet"

EMS_24: The Band Steppenwolf is named after this book

Tinuvia: Hawkwind "Steppenwind"

merrystar: Mumford and Sons, "Sigh No More"

szarka: Inspired "Song of Innocence" on Terry Scott Taylor's album Knowledge & Innocence, as well as his song "William Blake" on the Daniel Amos album Vox Humana.

ManWithAnAgenda: "Yertle the Turtle" - Red Hot Chili Peppers

merrystar: Loreena McKennitt, "Cymbeline"

Tinuvia: Iron Maiden "Where Eagles Dare"

merrystar: Loreena McKennit, "The Lady of Shalott"

merrystar: Loreena McKennit, "The Highwayman"

szarka: The poem "The Hollow Men" inspired Terry Scott Taylor's song "Hollow Man" on the Daniel Amos album Doppelgänger.

Tinuvia: Iron Maiden "The Trooper"

EMS_24: Boudewijn de Groot, "Kindermeidslied"