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- The Raven | Alan Parsons Project. The Raven by Alan Parsons Project was first released in 1976 as part of their debut album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination.
- Don’t Stand So Close to Me | The Police. Released in 1980, “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” by The Police is a rock classic that still resonates with audiences today.
- Sympathy for the Devil | The Rolling Stones. Sympathy for the Devil is a classic rock song by The Rolling Stones, released in December 1968. The song was inspired by the famous poem “The Master and Margarita” by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov.
- Killing Me Softly | Roberta Flack. “Killing Me Softly”, a mesmerizing song by Roberta Flack, was released on January 21, 1973. The song is an incredible fusion of soul, folk, and pop music which makes it a classic even today.
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The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death".
Man of La Mancha is a 1965 musical with a book by Dale Wasserman, music by Mitch Leigh, and lyrics by Joe Darion. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervantes and his 17th-century novel Don Quixote.
- Dale Wasserman
- 1964
‘A Musical Instrument’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a seven-stanza poem that is separated into sets of six lines, or sestets. Each of these sestets conforms to a consistent and structured rhyme scheme, following the pattern of abaccb. From stanza to stanza only the fourth and fifth lines change end sounds.
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5 days ago · Tom Waits - Nirvana - Orphans (Bastards). Watch on. Nirvana was originally a poem by Charles Bukowski. Waits’s version is simply his reading of that poem, set to some minimalist music. Bukowski’s influences on Waits is apparent in his lyrics focusing on the underclass.
Mar 2, 2019 · Leonard Cohen translated Federico García Lorca’s poem “Pequeño vals vienés” (“Little Viennese Waltz”) into English and made it into a song entitled “Take This Waltz,” which came out on his 1988 album I’m Your Man.
