'While songs about eternal things like love and jealousy will always be around, an artist writing about a book that shaped their imagination offers insight into what makes a performer unique. Without it, artists tend to become homogeneous.' -markgjudge
by Paul Bowles., about three American expatriates in the Sahara desert, is a dour and depressing read. I read it when I heard"Tea in the Sahara," a song that Sting wrote that was based on Bowles’s novel. Further,the album was named after a concept explored by both Carl Jung and Arthur Koestler, whose anti-communist masterpieceIt wasn’t the first time rock had sent me to the library.
Then there were the space oddity explorations of David Bowie, which were often based on science fiction novels, and the work of Bruce Springsteen, heavily influenced by both Sherwood Anderson and pulp crime writers like Jim Thompson. At the top of the heap is"Mercy Street" by Peter Gabriel, which I consider the best pop song ever inspired by literature. It celebrates the work of the poet Anne Sexton. Sexton suffered from terrible depression, her poems about enduring the pain while trying to live a normal suburban life.
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