Bands linked to Books

[CoCoa]

Bands named after book titles or taken from books

Yeah, it's a lonely thread ain't it and tried to do a picture, but keeps going wrong

Happy Birthday Bobby Z

 

[CoCoa]

Bands named after book titles or taken from books

Yeah, it's a lonely thread ain't it and tried to do a picture, but keeps going wrong

Happy Birthday Bobby Z

oophs forgot to start 1!

Eyeless in Gaza

 

[Johnny Crumplin Football]

Primal Scream

Mind-blowing book by headshrink Dr. Arthur Janov. An enthralling read. Tears for Fears was also from that book and the song Shout was about the controversial methods Janov uses to cure people of major neuroses.

Happy Friday to one and all from Nippon!

 

[Kosh]

Being anti Roger Dean you aint going to like this list, but hey it's a free world baby and that's all the matters to Kosh!

1= Fuschia (as in Lady Fuschia, Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake)
2= Titus Groan (as above)
3= Beggars Opera (John Gay, it's a play, but published nonetheless!)
4 = Magna Carta (Legal charter, but who cares!)

Four top prog bands, what else!

Kosh

 

[The Large One]

Pink Floyd's 'Piper At The Gates of Dawn' is the seventh chapter in 'The Wind in the Willows'

Level 42 named themselves after Douglas Adams' answer to Life, the Universe and Everything.

 

[CoCoa]

the boo radleys

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

joy division?

 

[CoCoa]

the boo radleys

to kill a mocking bird

 

[CoCoa]

joy division?

Nazi prostitutes

 

[Kosh]

Joy Division, has links to the Germans in the war, nasty band, nasty name.

Kosh

 

[Woodingdean Gull]

The group Duran Duran got their name from the film "Barbarella"

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Uriah Heep is a character in David Copperfield

Oh, and Genesis

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Heaven 17 from a band in the Anthony Burgess novel A Clockwork Orange

 

[Pondicherry]

The Doors

 

[Benny Seagull]

Joy Division, has links to the Germans in the war, nasty band, nasty name.

Kosh

correction: great band, great name.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

The Thomson Twins from the Tin-Tin books

 

[CoCoa]

Heaven 17 from a band in the Anthony Burgess novel A Clockwork Orange

also Human League

 

[The Large One]

also Human League

and Moloko

 

[Acker79]

draco and the malfoys
harry and the potters

 

[coventrygull]

The Fall. Novel by Albert Camus