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Songs about book
Sunday, November 6, 2005 | 22:00 to 00:00 | Specialty

Artist Song Album Comments
David Bowie Can You Here Me? Young Americans based on the Great Gatsby
the Pretenders Message of Love Pretenders II based on Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermiere's Fan
the Cure Killing an Arab Boys Don't Cry based on Albert Camus' The Stranger (The Outsider)
Bruce Springsteen The Ghost of Tom Joad the Ghost of Tom Joad based on the Grapes of Wrath
Kate Bush Sensual World The Sensual World based on James Joyce's Ullysses
Laurie Anderson Language is a Virus Home of the Brave Based on william S. Burroughs' The Adding Machine
They MIght Be Giants I Should Be Allowed to Think John Henry Based on Allen Ginsberg's Poem The Howl
Leonard Cohen Take This Waltz I'm Your Man base don Federico Garcia Lorca's The Viennese Waltz
Bob Dylan Along the Watchtower Unplugged based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Rufus Wainwright Grey Gardens Poses based on thomas mann's Death in Venice
Jefferson Airplane Rejoyce After Bathing at. . . based on James Joyce's Ullysses
Sting Moon Over Bourbon Street Bring on the night based on Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire