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"

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"

hipdeep: Led Zeppelin, "Ramble On"

Tinuvia: Blind Guardian "Lord of the Rings"

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"

EMS_24: Florence + the Machine - "Rabbit Heart"

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

hipdeep: Rush, "Tom Sawyer"

hipdeep: The Police, "Don't Stand So Close To Me"

Tinuvia: Lana Del Rey "Off to the Races"

EMS_24: "Bright Eyes" by Art Garfunkel

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"

hipdeep: Cream, "Tales of Brave Ulysses"

merrystar: Led Zeppelin: "Achilles' Last Stand"

EMS_24: Abba: "Cassandra"

hipdeep: Bruce Springsteen, "The Ghost of Tom Joad"

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

Tinuvia: Sting "Moon over Bourbon Street"

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

hipdeep: Rolling Stones, "Sympathy for the Devil"

EMS_24: Franz Ferdinand: "Love and Destroy"

Tinuvia: Nirvana "Scentless Apprentice"

EMS_24: ABBA : 'Me and I'

Tinuvia: Iced Earth "Jekyll & Hyde"

EMS_24: The Band Steppenwolf is named after this book

Tinuvia: Hawkwind "Steppenwind"

szarka: King Crimson: "The Sheltering Sky"

EMS_24: The Police: "Tea in the Sahara"

Tinuvia: The Velvet Underground "Venus in Furs"

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 "Charlotte Sometimes"

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

Tinuvia: Hawkwind "The War I Survived"

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

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

Tinuvia: Metallica "For Whom the Bell Tolls"

Tinuvia: Anthrax "Misery Loves Company"

hipdeep: The Ramones, "Pet Sematary"

hipdeep: Devo, "Whip It"

merrystar: Mumford and Sons, "Sigh No More"

Tinuvia: Sonic Youth "Pattern Recognition"

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

Tinuvia: The Cure "The Drowning Man"

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

merrystar: Loreena McKennitt, "Cymbeline"

Tinuvia: Iron Maiden "Where Eagles Dare"

hipdeep: John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band, "Season in Hell (Fire Suite)"

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

Tinuvia: The Smiths "William, It Was Really Nothing"

merrystar: Loreena McKennit, "The Lady of Shalott"

merrystar: Loreena McKennit, "The Highwayman"

Tinuvia: Black Sabbath "Behind the Wall of Sleep"

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

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

Tinuvia: Iron Maiden "The Trooper"

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

hipdeep: Elton John, "Rocket Man"

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: Boudewijn de Groot, "Kindermeidslied"

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

Tinuvia: Radiohead "Banana Co."

Tinuvia: Iron Maiden "To Tame a Land";
Blind Guardian "Traveler in Time"

Tinuvia: Iced Earth "Dracula"

Tinuvia: Blind Guardian "Nightfall in Middle-Earth" (album)

ManWithAnAgenda: "Good Witch of the North" by Everclear

merrystar: Loreena McKennit, "Dante's Prayer"

ManWithAnAgenda: "Table of Contents" by The Roots

ManWithAnAgenda: "Goodbye Sky Harbor" by Jimmy Eat World

ManWithAnAgenda: "So Long, And Thanks For All the Fish" - A Perfect Circle

merrystar: Loreena McKennitt, "Prospero's Speech"

ManWithAnAgenda: "Thieves in the Night" by Black Star

EMS_24: Yes "Turn of the Century" on Pygmalion

Tinuvia: Iron Maiden "The Phantom of the Opera";
Iced Earth "The Phantom of the Opera Ghost"

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

Tinuvia: Billy Talent "Saint Veronika"

Tinuvia: Muse "The Small Print"

EMS_24: Mark Knopfler: "Sailing to Philadelphia"

Tinuvia: Iron Maiden "The Prophecy";
Iron Maiden "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son"

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

Tinuvia: Metallica "One"

EMS_24: Talk Talk: "Such a Shame"

szarka: Inspired Terry Scott Taylor's song "The Double" on the Daniel Amos album Doppelgänger.

Tinuvia: Iron Maiden "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"

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

Tinuvia: Iron Maiden "Murders in the Rue Morgue"

szarka: "Father Explains" inspired the Daniel Amos song of the same name on the album Kalhoun.

KimarieBee: Within Temptation, "Hand of Sorrow"

Tinuvia: Joy Division "No Love Lost"

Tinuvia: Outkast "Toilet Tisha"

EMS_24: "Swim with Sam" by A Balladeer