On That Note: Every Day I Sing the Book
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Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by British author James Hilton. Hilton describes Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. Shangri-La has become synonymous with any earthly paradise, particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia – a permanently happy land, isolated from the world. In the novel, the people who live at Shangri-La are almost immortal, living hundreds of years beyond the normal lifespan and only very slowly aging in appearance. The name also evokes the imagery of the exoticism of the Orient.
Used ironically here...
Used ironically here...
"Hurricane" by Bob Dylan, inspired by The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472 by Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter worked tirelessly from jail to prove his innocence after he was accused of gunning down three people in Paterson, New Jersey in 1966. His cause attracted the attentions of a writer who helped him to publish his autobiography. Rubin sent a copy to Bob Dylan. The artist was so moved after reading Carter's stirring account of his innocence, and mistrial, that he visited the boxer in jail, and raised $100,000 for Carter's defence at a Madison Square Garden concert featuring Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and Roberta Flack. Not only that, he co-wrote this eight-minute-plus protest song as the opening track for his album Desire, with Jacques Levy.
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter worked tirelessly from jail to prove his innocence after he was accused of gunning down three people in Paterson, New Jersey in 1966. His cause attracted the attentions of a writer who helped him to publish his autobiography. Rubin sent a copy to Bob Dylan. The artist was so moved after reading Carter's stirring account of his innocence, and mistrial, that he visited the boxer in jail, and raised $100,000 for Carter's defence at a Madison Square Garden concert featuring Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and Roberta Flack. Not only that, he co-wrote this eight-minute-plus protest song as the opening track for his album Desire, with Jacques Levy.
Reference to For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
"Walk on the Wild Side" by Lou Reed, inspired by Walk on the Wild Side by Nelson Algren
"I Am the Walrus" has references to Lewis Carroll and a live BBC radio feed of King Lear in the background in the outro. So I guess that counts for Shakespeare?
"Serviceable villain" is a favorite quote from the Bard of mine.
EDGAR
I know thee well—a serviceable villain,
As duteous to the vices of thy mistress
As badness would desire.
"Serviceable villain" is a favorite quote from the Bard of mine.
EDGAR
I know thee well—a serviceable villain,
As duteous to the vices of thy mistress
As badness would desire.
The Song: “Ramble On,” Led Zeppelin
The Novel: Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien.
“'Twas in the darkest depths of Mordor
I met a girl so fair.
But Gollum, and the evil one crept up
And slipped away with her.”
The Novel: Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien.
“'Twas in the darkest depths of Mordor
I met a girl so fair.
But Gollum, and the evil one crept up
And slipped away with her.”
Cheat sheet for everybody...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_that_retell_a_work_of_literature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_that_retell_a_work_of_literature
Literally the first reply.
https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/threads/on-that-note-every-day-i-sing-the-book.247368/#post-6615668
Well ****.
I saw the Chronicles cover and didn't read the song title.
My version is better anyways. It's "Official" and look like it was filmed in some dudes ski lodge.
Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah
Book: THE BIBLE
References to : King David and his affair with the married Bathsheba
Samson and Delilah. Delilah cutting Samson's hair
Book: THE BIBLE
References to : King David and his affair with the married Bathsheba
Samson and Delilah. Delilah cutting Samson's hair
