R&P: favourite song that was inspired by a book?

Oh...there would be dozens. Here's just a few;

Animal Farm by Greenslade...based on the novel by George Orwell;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJdSAbigy4w

Snow Goose by Camel...based on a novel by Paul William Gallico;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTVnCyDoQlQ

War And Peace by The Nice...Novel by Leo Tolstoy;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okId4QBVbUQ

At The Mountains Of Madness by HP Lovecraft...a novel by Howard Phillips Lovecraft;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHxuWBzBbpw

Steppenwolf - by Hawkwind...a novel by Hermann Hesse;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiKsIY_kLzY

Never Never Land by The Pink Fairies...based on a novel by J. M. Barrie...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ4uU0T_Avc

In Search Of The Ancient Gods... all songs based on stories by Eric von Daniken;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu-hm5uQNZg

The Tell-Tale Heart by The Alan Parsons Project...A short story by Edgar Allan Poe;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qT4QdIX7Mc

2112 by Rush..based on the novel 'Anthem' by Ayn Rand;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQEgZNqa8jE

War Of The Worlds by Jeff Wayne...based on the HG Wells novel...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdOhFIxBzQA&feature...

Venus In Furs- The Velvet Underground

And now it's on Broadway.

BQ: A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham

BQ2: .....

Ramble On -- Led Zeppelin. From the Lord of the Rings. Other Zep songs too like Battle of Evermore and Misty Mountain Hop came from Tolkien's works.

BQ: Not much for modern stuff other than Tom Clancy. I like the Classics, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and Rudyard Kipling.

BQ2: Not very fast. I savor books like fine wine.

Metallica - One

BQ: The Stand - Stephen King

BQ2: Lol that reminds me of the Ex, Wouldn't shut up 24/7

Good morning Amy :)

Hmm...

'Rhiannon' ~ Fleetwood mac {SN} http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqEiiVvxyMc&fmt=18

Inspired by a character in the novel "Triad" by Mary Leader, but after writing it similarities were noted to the mythical Welsh goddess in the Mabinogion {collection of stories} http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabinogion {Stevie said her mother read her fairy stories when she was little, so I wonder if she had heard the tale of Rhiannon as a child...?}

'The Battle of Evermore' ~ Led Zeppelin feat. Sandy Denny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BjiRKBC05c&fmt=18

Another of their "Lord of the Rings" inspired tracks - probably the most obviously inspired.

'The Company of Wolves' ~ Caliban

http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/window/media/page/...

Actually inspired by the film, which Angela Carter scripted from her short story. The sample of the music here is the section taken from music used in the film.

{This week's "Book of the Week" on BBC Radio 4 is about Angela Carter}

BQ: Phil Rickman's "Merrily Watkins" series.

Gail Carriger's "Parasol Protectorate" {"Alexia Tarabotti"} series

BQ2: Well, I often do read that fast *in my head*, but have to slow down to read out-loud ~ my brain goes faster than my mouth, and I end up tripping over the words!

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I have to agree with Smiley about "The Snow Goose" - one of the best Prog-Rock 'concept' albums ever, and having heard a radio adaptation of the novel I could really see how the music fits the plot.

well, the album 'The Call of the Wretched Sea' by Ahab is what I believe to be the band's reinterpretation of Moby-Dick.

BQ: Han Shaogong - Papa Pa (refer to the collection translated by Martha Cheung called Homecoming? and other stories)

BQ2: lol forever slowpoke

Howdy

The Ring Cycle by Wagner which is inspired by Norse poetry

BQ:The Hobbit

The Dark Elf Trilogy

The Saga of Icelanders

The Fearie Queen

1984

The Kings Saga (both the Persisn and the Norwedgian one)

BQ2:I like to take my time :)

Pet Sematary - The Ramones (Pet Cemetery - Stephen King)

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Metallica (For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway)

Misty Mountain Hop - Led Zeppelin (LOTR - JRR Tolkien)

Lord of the Rings - Blind Guardian (LOTR - JRR Tolkien)

The album Animals by Pink Floyd (Animal Farm - George Orwell)

Venus in Furs - Velvet Underground (Venus in Furs - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch)

White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane (Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll)

The Call Of Ktulu - Metallica (The Call Of Cthulhu - H.P. Lovecraft)

One - Metallica (Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo)

Oh, and The Doors got their name from the Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley, if that counts.

BQ: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Who Wrote Holden Caulfield- Green Day

Holden Caulfield is a character in Catcher in the Rye :)

The Oppressed - Joe Hawkins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYt6Q8rnjJo

From the Richard Allen skinhead books

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Richard-Allen-Ski...

BQ Na went off reading now used to read all the time.

BQ2 Lol shes annoying.

Smashing Pumpkins "Soma" is named after the drug Soma in the novel "A Brave New World". The song is so amazing it just brings me to me knees every time I hear it. it also has the best line in any song ever "In another world god sleeps in peace," and those guitar pedal effects are mind blowing/

Smashing Pumpkins "Soma"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYkXjsNGgIM

"A Brave New World"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World