What songs are named after literary characters?

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indieshins wrote:
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.
This is why doing Literature at uni is awesome!


Shakespeare's Sister was also the name of a band in the late 80s. I think they were a Irish band.
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bobbyb5 wrote:
Shakespeare's Sister was also the name of a band in the late 80s. I think they were a Irish band.


Irish/British and American as it goes - Marcella Detroit is from the States, Siobhan used to be in Bananarama.

And it's Shakespear without the e on the end.
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I thought of some more when I started thinking of Greek myths

Achilles Last Stand. Led Zeppelin
Pandora. Cocteau twins
Isis. Bob Dylan
Athena. The Who
Venus Bananarama
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Jimmy Dread wrote:
Jesus - The Velvet Underground


Some more songs with Jesus in the title:
The Birthday Party - Big-Jesus-Trash-Can
Brand New - Jesus
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
The Flaming Lips - Plastic Jesus
Genesis - Jesus He Knows Me
Green Day - Jesus Of Suburbia
Kanye West - Jesus Walks
Modest Mouse - Jesus Christ Was An Only Child
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jesus Of The Moon
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jesus Alone
Slayer - Jesus Saves
Stevie Wonder - Jesus Children Of America
Tom Waits - Jesus Gonna Be Here
Tome Waits - Chocolate Jesus
Wilco - Jesus Etc.
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sparks - sherlock holmes
bruce springsteen - santa claus is coming to town
shirley bassey - goldfinger
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Frankenstein. The Edgar Winter Group
In the Wake of Poseidon. King Crimson
Godzilla. Blue Oyster Cult
Satan. Orbital
King Arthur. Rick Wakeman
Merlin the Magician. Rick Wakeman
The Little Prince Carole King
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Onater wrote:
Some more songs with Jesus in the title:
The Birthday Party - Big-Jesus-Trash-Can
Brand New - Jesus
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
The Flaming Lips - Plastic Jesus
Genesis - Jesus He Knows Me
Green Day - Jesus Of Suburbia
Kanye West - Jesus Walks
Modest Mouse - Jesus Christ Was An Only Child
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jesus Of The Moon
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jesus Alone
Slayer - Jesus Saves
Stevie Wonder - Jesus Children Of America
Tom Waits - Jesus Gonna Be Here
Tome Waits - Chocolate Jesus
Wilco - Jesus Etc.


Queen - Jesus
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Der Ring des Niebelungen is based on the Poetic/Prose Edda - Norse methology.
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Eponine - Ozma

One of my all time favorite songs and it's about one of my favorite characters.
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jmo32087 wrote:
Eponine - Ozma

One of my all time favorite songs and it's about one of my favorite characters.


Is that the Ozma from one of the Wizard of Oz books? there was a witch or something in one of those books named Ozma of Oz. I love those books when I was a little
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