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Fast Food

Songs inspired by literature

References in rock songs often slip away unobserved, mainly because the genre itself tends to get very heavy. While in some cases, the book being retold is in the title itself – as in the cases of For Whom The Bell Tolls (Metallica) and Brave New World (Iron Maiden), sometimes the characters mentioned in the song are so famous – Misty Mountain Hop (Led Zeppelin), White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplaine), listeners catch the references easily. But in other cases, when the references are evasive, it’s possible for them to have gone past unnoticed. We’ve picked out ten such cases.

The Ghost Of Tom Joad – Bruce Springsteen
Retelling of: The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Pultizer Prize-winning novel The Grapes Of Wrath tells the story of the Joads, an American family that is forced to leave their native Oklahoma to work as labourers in California after losing their farm during the Great Depression. In the song, which also borrows from......


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