The Divine Comedy are an obvious one in the books/band name thing. Not only is the name borrowed, but large chunks of the lyrics are taken from literary types - "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" is an F Scott Fitzgerald short story shortened further, "Lucy" is a Wordsworth poem set to music and so on. This is either theft or genius. I go for the latter.
There's also Woman Of The World which is about Holly Golightly from Breakfast At Tiffany's. It's based on the film rather than the book, but... well, it's kind of a link. And When the Lights Go Out All Over Europe is another film one (lots of French films mentioned such as Jules et Jim and Claire's Knee) - anyone know where the bit of French dialogue is from? And there's one where he lists lots of authors - obviously a book influence there. And becoming more like Alfie is again more the film than the play. Any others? Mark ___________________________________________________________________________ Mark Iles, Tel: +44 (0113) 2065042 Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Fax: +44 (0113) 2340183 Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Ashley Wing, Email: iles@boreas.leeds.icnet.uk St James's University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, "Libraries gave us power" LS9 7TF Manic Street Preachers U.K. ____________________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------