Of course it's an autobiography; I thought that even a remotely knowledgeable person knows it, but I wanted to mention that album too.Originally Posted by Rarebird
Of course it's an autobiography; I thought that even a remotely knowledgeable person knows it, but I wanted to mention that album too.
Well, there are always people who think it's a fake.
Yeah you're right, I should noted in my post that's an autobiography.
The name changes are purely for legal reasons, they are the same characters. In fact it was similar enough to the book that it had a whole heap of legal problems. If I recall correctly the Stoker's won so we are lucky the film still exists at all.
Oh right, thanks for that, I had no idea at all about all this, that there were legal ramifications. I genuinely thought that the Nosferatu films were based on a unique book or screenplay.
I was tempted (since we are allowing OST) to nominate the Popol Vuh soundtrack for the 1970's remake but alas I think it is entirely instrumental.
Interestingly in the remake they revert to the characters original names not the ones used in the 1920's film. I suspect Dracula was out of copyright by then.
Just read a review of "The Lidless Room" by the new Dutch progressive rock-band Crescent Moon.
This album is based on Before The Law by Franz Kafka, while the title comes from the poem '' Insomniac '' of Sylvia Plath.
^ This reminded me of Mercy Street by Peter Gabriel. Biographical about poet Anne Sexton, but I'm sure it involves references to/from her poetry. Not necessarily fiction, but maybe kinda.
What a great band though, hey?
You raise an interesting point there, in that most or perhaps all poems tend to contain a germ of truth, of real events, that are then spun into verse or fantasy, as do many novels, and indeed many biographies. Everyone reading certain biographies by certain types of people knows that the pinch of salt is never far away, the size of the pinch varying greatly depending on the author.
In school one of the books we studied for Eng. Lit. was the Diary of Anne Frank.I've been in the Anne Frank museum/house in Amsterdam and have no reason to question the authenticity of her diary......but given the conditions, a young mind in that kind of isolation, lack of food, little communication, for so long, of course her writing was affected by it, as would anyone's be.
A longest Yugo-prog epic song Poema 1941. ("Poem 1941.") (1971) by Korni Grupa is based on A Hero's Mother the poem about WW2 written by former Yugoslav partisan, novelist and poet Branko Čopić.
Ben Button....
They did TWO albums?
Jefferson Starship's "Blows Against the Empire" is a concept album, based on Robert Heinlein's Methuselah's Children.
MCCCXX - Milletrecentoventi released in 1993.
Probably more of an EP. I believe it is about 25 minutes long.
And if there were a god, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence - Russell
Grace Slick is a massive Heinlen fan.
Maybe.
I understood Kantner was the one... but he probably turned Grace onto Heinlein while they were together.
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Tales from the Thousand Lakes by Amorphis is also based on The Kalevala and all the lyrics are lifted directly from its English translation. It's not really a work of modern fiction though, but it does have a named author (i.e. the guy who travelled around Finland in the 19th century collecting old folk stories, then arranged them into an organized whole).
It's a bit shorter 23:51, and also rather forgetable. An uninspired Intro track and two instrumental sketches of what ended up on the real album.
Only of interest if you want to hear who the songs developed.
Most of the band members (all but the keyboardist) still play in the Pink Floyd cover band "Another Pig in Florence".
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According to Wikipedia, Hackett's "Carry On Up The Vicarage" is a tribute to Agatha Christie.
Marillion - "Punch & Judy"
(I'll get me coat...)
Lou Reed - The Raven
Jeeze, I gotta come in and clean up after you....Don't forget on the same album, there's Narnia for C.S.Lewis - and a reference to mythology with Icarus Ascending
-=Will you stand by me against the cold night, or are you afraid of the ice?=-
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