What songs are named after literary characters?

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bobbyb5
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Heres some famous fictional literary characters with songs named after them: what other ones are there?

Tales of Brave Ulysses. Cream
Tom Sawyer. Rush
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You could probably make a whole album just based on Shakespeare characters. In fact, I'm going to make a playlist with Shakespeare inspired songs. Will post it later.

https://open.spotify.com/user/hoss.miro...7nXHzvJTTy
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Heres some more

Don Quixote. Gordon Lightfoot
Waiting for Superman Flaming Lips
Superman. The Kinks
Prince Charming. Adam and the Ants
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Good call.

I got:

Charlotte Sometimes - The Cure
Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits (sorry, a Shakespeare one, T1CR, BUT I LOVE THAT SONG)
Moby Dick - Led Zeppelin
Don Quixote - Nik Kershaw
Billy Budd - Morrissey
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All you guys came up with some awesome ones
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bobbyb5 wrote:

Waiting for Superman Flaming Lips
Superman. The Kinks


Going off of this, The Superman by David Bowie, Superman's Song by Crash Test Dummies, and Superman by R.E.M.
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Hey Orpheus/Oh Eurydice - Arcade Fire
Adam Raised a Cain/Ghost of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen (the Bible's still literature, right?)
Miss Macbeth/I Thought I'd Write to Juliet/Romeo's Seance - Elvis Costello
King Kunta - Kendrick Lamar
Things Fall Apart - The Roots (not a character, but I'm going to stretch it)

On that note : 2 + 2 = 5 - Radiohead and Soma - The Strokes/Smashing Pumpkins both reference literature, but not characters.
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Two Smiths songs refer to literature:

Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others mentions Antony and Cleopatra

Sheila Take a Bow refers to playwright Shelagh Delaney who wrote A Taste of Honey, which Morrissey is obsessed with.
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Stover75 wrote:
Two Smiths songs refer to literature:

Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others mentions Antony and Cleopatra

Sheila Take a Bow refers to playwright Shelagh Delaney who wrote A Taste of Honey, which Morrissey is obsessed with.


Shakespeare's Sister as well - refers to Viriginia Woolf's essay A Room of One's Own, in which she imagines that Shakespeare had a sister as talented as he was, who couldn't get her plays performed or published because she was a woman. She ends up committing suicide. Given the lyrics of the song, it seems likely that's what it's referring to.
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