User talk:KConWiki/List of songs that retell a work of literature

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Albums

• An Alien Heat by Spirits Burning and Michael Moorcock is a concept album that retells An Alien Heat by Michael Moorcock.
• The Black Halo by Kamelot is a concept album inspired by Goethe's Faust.
• Epica by Kamelot is a concept album inspired by Goethe's Faust.
• The Hollow Lands by Spirits Burning and Michael Moorcock is a concept album that retells The Hollow Lands by Michael Moorcock
• Mack Avenue Skullgame by Big Chief is an album on Sub Pop based on the book Masquerade by Lowell Cauffiel.
• Nightfall in Middle-Earth is an album by Blind Guardian that retells Tolkien's The Silmarillion.

Films

• "Into the West" by Annie Lennox is about The Lord of the Rings

Songs

• "20 000 ljööd vee all" by Vennaskond is about Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
• "All is Not Well" by Hannah Fury is based on the romance of Elphaba and Fiyero from Wicked by Gregory Maguire.
• "Alone" by Arcturus is based on the Edgar Allan Poe poem of the same title.
• "Altair-4" by Blind Guardian is about The Tommyknockers by Stephen King.
• "And Then There Was Silence" by Blind Guardian is based on The Iliad.
• "And Your Little Dog Too" by Hannah Fury is told from the point of view of the Wicked Witch of the West from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
• "Animal Farm" by Hazel O'Connor is about George Orwell's Animal Farm.
• "The Bard's Song (The Hobbit)" by Blind Guardian retells The Hobbit.
• "Barefoot Children in the Rain" by Jimmy Buffett partially retells Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
• "Beneath These Waves" by Demons & Wizards retells the story of Herman Melville's Moby Dick from Captain Ahab's perspective.
• "Billy Bones And The White Bird" by Elton John is based on the fictional character Billy Bones in the first section of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island.
• "China in Your Hand“ by T'Pau is based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
• "Crimson King" by Demons & Wizards, on Touched by the Crimson King, is told from the point of view of Randall Flagg, the main antagonist from The Dark Tower by Stephen King.
• "Cute Without the E (Cut From the Team)" by Taking Back Sunday is based on William Shakespeare's play Othello.
• "Daedalus" by Thrice is a retelling of the story of Daedalus and Icarus, so well known from Greek mythology.
• "Dante's Prayer" by Loreena McKennitt, inspired by Dante's Inferno
• "Done with Bonaparte" by Mark Knopfler is based on "The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier" by Jakob Walter.
• "Dorian" by Demons & Wizards is based on The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
• "Dracula" by Iced Earth is about Dracula by Bram Stoker.
• "El Dorado" by Iron Maiden references an Edgar Allan Poe poem of the same name.
• "The End of The Universe" by S.P.O.C.K refers to The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams.
• "The Face of Dorian Gray" by Robert Marlow is based on Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
• "Flight of Icarus" by Iron Maiden is loosely based on the Greek myth of Icarus.
• "Footprints" by Half Man Half Biscuit is a parody of "Footprints" by Mary Stevenson, itself adapted from Psalm 77:19.
• "The Gladdest Thing" by Deb Talan incorporates as its chorus the poem "Afternoon on a Hill" by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
• "Heart Of Love" by Jamie Bond from The Heavenly Kid movie references the story of Scheherazade from One Thousand and One Nights.
• "The Highwayman" is a Loreena McKennitt song which recounts a poem by Alfred Noyes. Phil Ochs originally wrote the musical interpretation of the poem which was taken and extended by Loreena McKennitt, without attribution.
• "Home", by Breaking Benjamin, is based on The Wizard of Oz.
• "I Can't Let You In" by Hannah Fury is about Fiyero's tragic affair with Elphaba (told from her point of view) from Gregory Maguire's Wicked.
• "I Cheat the Hangman" by the Doobie Brothers is a song inspired by the story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce.
• "I Have Seen The Future" by The Bravery is a song inspired by Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
• "If I Die Young" by The Band Perry based on the poem "Lady of Shallot" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
• "If You'd Only Believe" by The Jacksons references Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables.
• "Indiana" by Meg & Dia is based on the George Sand 1832 novel of the same name.
• "Insener Garini Hüperboloid" by Vennaskond is about The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy.
• "Jekyll & Hyde" by Iced Earth is about The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
• "Jillian (I'd Give My Heart)" by Within Temptation is about Daggerspell by Katharine Kerr.
• "La cruz de Santiago" by Mägo de Oz is inspired by the adventures of Captain Alatriste and is dedicated to his writer, Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
• "The Lady of Shalott" by Loreena McKennitt is based upon the poem of the same name written by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Momus has a song based on the same poem.
• "Legend of Xanadu" by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich based on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan".
• "Let it Show" by Hannah Fury is based on Gregory Maguire's Wicked.
• "The List" by Hank Green is based on John Green's Paper Towns.
• "Lord of the Flies" by Elton John is based on Lord of the Flies by William Golding.{{cn}
• "Lord of the Rings" by Blind Guardian is about The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.
• "Love Song for a Vampire" by Annie Lennox is about Bram Stoker's Dracula.
• "Love Story" by Taylor Swift is loosely based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
• "Lullaby" by Lagwagon is based on Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk.
• "A Man for All Seasons" by Al Stewart was based on Robert Bolt's play.
• "Memory" from the musical Cats is based on lines from a poem by T. S. Eliot.
• "Midsummer Night's Dream" by Noe Venable speculates about the children's return from Narnia in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
• "Moonchild" by Iron Maiden is based on the novel of the same title by Aleister Crowley.
• "Monster" by Meg & Dia is based on Cathy Ames' character in John Steinbeck's "East of Eden".
• "Mrs. Bluebeard" by They Might Be Giants is told from the perspective of one of the wives of Bluebeard.
• "My Name Is Macbeth" by Mitch Benn is Shakespeare's Macbeth reworked in the style of Eminem.
• "Nescio" by The Nits is based on De Uitvreter by Nescio.
• "Never Come Down Again" by Hannah Fury is based on Gregory Maguire's Wicked, told from Elphaba's point of view.
• "Night ∞ Series" is a series of 4 songs by Hitoshizuku-P x Yama. It tells the story of Bad∞End∞Night: Volume 1 and 2 by Hitoshizuku-P. (It is worth noting that the songs and the books goes hand in hand and the fact that the songs came before the books).
• "Nights of Arabia" by Kamelot is based on the framing story of Scheherazade from One Thousand and One Nights.
• "O Médico e o Monstro" by Resgate is based on Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
• "Oedipus" by Regina Spektor refers to the tragedy of Oedipus Rex by Sophocles.
• "Oedipus Rex" by Tom Lehrer also refers to the Sophocles play.
• "Oh! You Pretty Things" by David Bowie contains lyrics that reference Anthem by Ayn Rand.
• "Omega Man" by Iron Savior is based on the novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson.
• "Out of the Silent Planet" by Iron Maiden is based on the movie Forbidden Planet and the science-fiction novel by C. S. Lewis.
• "The Pearl" by Fleming and John is based on the 1947 novella of the same name by John Steinbeck.
• "Penelope" by Robi Rosa is based on the character from Homer's Odyssey.
• "The Phantom of the Opera Ghost" by Iced Earth is also about Leroux's play.
• "A Picture of Dorian Gray" by The Television Personalities is about Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
• "Poet" by Bastille was inspired by Sonnet 81 by William Shakespeare.
• "Poor Little Rich Boy" by Regina Spektor refers to a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
• "Prick! Goes the Scorpion's Tale" By Emilie Autumn is based on the fable "The Toad and the Scorpion".
• "Prince in the Scarlet Robe" by Domine based on Corum Jhaelen Irsei, the main character in a series of books by Michael Moorcock.
• "The Prophecy" by Iron Maiden is based on the book Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card, and appears on the concept album Seventh Son of a Seventh Son.
• "Raistlin and the Rose" by Lake of Tears is based on Dragonlance Legends trilogy by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.
• "The Resistance" by Muse is based on 1984 by George Orwell.
• "Restless" by Elton John is based on George Orwell's novel 1984.
• "A Revolta dos Dândis" by Engenheiros do Hawaii mirrors the ideas present on "The Dandy's Revolt," a chapter of Albert Camus's The Rebel.
• "Ride a White Swan" by T.Rex refers to the plot of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.
• "Ride into Obsession" by Blind Guardian is inspired by the story of The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan.
• "Riki Tiki Tavi" by Donovan is a spoof on the mongoose character from The Jungle Book.
• "Roderigo" by Seven Mary Three is based on the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
• "Romeo and Juliet" by Dire Straits is inspired by William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
• "Sahara" by Eddie From Ohio retells Jon Krakauer's 1996 nonfiction book Into the Wild.
• "The Salesman, Denver Max" by The Blood Brothers is based on the Joyce Carol Oates short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
• "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" by Pink Floyd is based on the I Ching.
• "Sex Crime (1984)" by The Eurythmics based on George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four".
• "Shalott" by Emilie Autumn tells the story of "The Lady of Shallot" by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
• "The Sign of the Cross" by Iron Maiden appears to be partly based on Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose.
• "The Small Print" by Muse tells the story of Faust from the point of view of the Devil.
• "Someone Speaks Softly" by Hannah Fury is based on Wicked by Gregory Maguire.
• "Something Wicked That Way Went" by Vernian Process is based on Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury.
• "Somewhere Far Beyond" by Blind Guardian is based on The Dark Tower by Stephen King.
• "The Soulforged" by Blind Guardian talks about Raistlin Majere, a major character in the Dragonlance universe.
• "Space Is Deep" by Hawkwind is based on the Michael Moorcock book The Black Corridor.
• "Stormbringer" by Deep Purple is about Elric of Melniboné.
• "Sun and Steel" by Iron Maiden is about "Sun and Steel" by Yukio Mishima, which is in turn about Miyamoto Musashi.
• "Talk Shows on Mute" by Incubus is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as well as Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• "Tell Mary" by Meg & Dia is based on the 1926 novel Mary by Vladimir Nabokov.
• "Terror Train" by Demons & Wizards is sung from the perspective of Blaine the Mono, a character in Stephen King's The Dark Tower, and recalls part of the plot.
• "Thumbelina" by Nightmare of You is based on Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins.
• "To Be or Not to Be" by BA Robertson is based on William Shakespeare's plays.
• "To The End" by My Chemical Romance retells the gothic horror story "A Rose for Emily".
• "Toilet Tisha" by Outkast retells the 18th-century Russian short story "Poor Liza" by Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin.
• "Tom Joad, Parts 1 and 2" by Woody Guthrie retells The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
• "Tommyknockers" by Blind Guardian is about The Tommyknockers by Stephen King.
• "Traveler in Time" by Blind Guardian is about Dune by Frank Herbert.
• "A Trick of the Tail" by Genesis is based upon The Inheritors by William Golding.
• "The War I Survived" by Hawkwind refers to Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
• "Weight of Living, Pt. I" by Bastille is based on "The Rime of The Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
• "Wheel of Time" by Blind Guardian tells the story of The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan.
• "When Two Worlds Collide" by Iron Maiden tells the same story as When Worlds Collide by Philip Gordon Wylie and Edwin Balmer.
• "Where Eagles Dare" by Iron Maiden is based on Alistair MacLean's novel Where Eagles Dare.
• "Which Way, Robert Frost?" by Jacky Cheung references the poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost.
• "Wings" by BTS is based on Demian by Hermann Hesse.