songs inspired by books

[Chuffy]

How about Can We Fix It - Neil Morrissey, Inspired by Bob the Builder, is that more straightforward

I think you’ll find that Bob the Builder was a TV series first and the song was directly inspired by that, rather than the spin-off book….

Has anyone mentioned Wuthering Heights yet?

 

[Disgruntled Goat]

Wuthering Heights

 

[Disgruntled Goat]

But...that still means overall the book will have influenced that song.
And London Fields (the place) is referenced in "London Fields".

How about Can We Fix It - Neil Morrissey, Inspired by Bob the Builder, is that more straightforward

I will still cling to London Fields the park because it is where I used to live. In a house nearby, not actually in the park.

 

[Disgruntled Goat]

There's a lyric which refers to L.Ron Hubbard but I'm buggered if I can recall it.

 

[Chuffy]

I will still cling to London Fields the park because it is where I used to live. In a house nearby, not actually in the park.

Did you get rudely awakened by the dustman?

 

[Fnaar]

Which book was this inspired by? There's a book titled This Charming Man writen by Marian Keyes, but it seems to be a chick book. Also it was published in 2008.

From Wikipedia article:

As with many of Morrissey's compositions, the song's lyrics features dialog borrowed from a cult film. The line "A jumped-up pantry boy who never knew his place" is borrowed from the 1972 film adaptation of Anthony Shaffer's 1970 homoerotic play Sleuth, in which Laurence Olivier plays a cuckolded author to Michael Caine's 'bit of rough'.[8][2]