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Songs Inspired By Literature

Can you match the song with the piece of literature that inspired it?


 

Quiz ID:#15054
Fun:*** (2.73)
Difficulty:** (1.28)
Category:Music
Created By:jppbl*us******

 

 



 



#1   In this hit, Elton John says "Goodbye" to a certain glittery path:






#2   This Jefferson Airplane song, riddled with drug references, is based on a character from "Alice in Wonderland".






#3   "Xanadu" is based upon the paradise in what Coleridge poem?






#4   "I Am the Walrus", by The Beatles, was inspired by a poem from this novel:






#5   This Dire Straits song was named after two "star crossed lovers":






#6   "The Ghost of Tom Joad", by Bruce Springsteen, is based on what novel?






#7   The song, "Turn, Turn, Turn", takes its lyrics from what book?






#8   Suzanne Vega's song "Calypso" is about a sea nymph from Homer's "The Odyssey".




#9   This song is inspired by a mythological story about a boy and his father who make wings of feathers and wax in order to escape a prison in Crete.






#10   The song "Among the Living", by Anthrax, is a reference to what Stephen King novel?






 

 


   



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