Which Songs Or Pieces Of Music Are Inspired By Shakespeare?
Answer:
Not surprisingly, Shakespeare's work has influenced song writers all over the world and mentions of his work, himself and his characters are found across the world of music. Obviously there are those operas which thieve their names or stories from Shakespeare, but there are other mentions:
Band - Shakespeare Sister
Song - Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
Song - Romeo and Juliet - Indigo Girls
Song - I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor - Arctic Monkeys (mentions Romeo and Juliet)
Song - I am the Walrus - The Beatles - part of an audio reworked copy of King Lear are featured on this track.
Song -Summer Girls by LFO the lyrics read 'Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole lot of sonnets'
Song - The King Must Die - Elton John, Shakespeare mentioned a lot
Song - Let's Get It On contained by Public - Kelis featuring Nas - I can't write the lyrics, they are practical po*n!
This is just a short scan, the man gets everywhere!
Comment: The tie Shakespeare's Sister was named after the Smiths' song "Shakespeare's Sister", rather than directly influenced by the Bard himself.
Answer: Shakespeare have inspired numerous musical works.
Several of his tragedies and a few comedies, including ROMEO AND JULIET and OTHELLO have been turned into operas and ballets. For example, Verdi wrote OTELLO. and FALSTAFF, You probably know Tchaivovsky's theme for the bop ROMEO AND JULIET.
Felix Mendelssohn composed incidental music for A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, including a rather famous wedding pageant.
ROMEO AND JULIET was also the basis for the musical WEST SIDE STORY, although no songs specifically mention Shakespeare or the play. A few other plays have be made into musicals, including TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA and COMEDY OF ERRORS (which became THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE).
KISS ME KATE by Cole Porter is a musical about a musical version of THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. This is the show that have the great number "Brush Up Your Shakespeare." ("They'll think you're a helluva of a fellow/If you quote a few lines from OTHELLO")
Other songs:
"Just Like Romeo and Juliet" - this song was originally done by a band call the Reflections, but has been covered a couple of other times. My favorite version is by Scott Kempner.
"Romeo's Tune" by Steve Forbert be actually a hit in 1979.
"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult was a hit song in the order of making a suicide pact with your love. ("Romeo and Juliet are together through eternity/We can be like they are")
Lou Reed's "Legendary Hearts" makes a set-up of "Romeo, Romeo Wherefore art thou Romeo?" Unfortunately, he makes the same mistakes a LOT of people bring in, and he mixes up the word "wherefore" (which means "why") with "where."
Speaking of Lou Reed, his brilliant album NEW YORK opens near the song "Romeo Had Juliette," which is a sort of an updating of ROMEO AND JULIET set in contemporary NYC.
"Prince Hal's Dirge" by Loudon Wainwright III is based on the two HENRY IV plays.
"Hamlet Meets John Doe" by the Rave-Ups is a very cool song, even though I don't infer half the lyrics.
"Suicide Is Painless," the title song from the movie M*A*S*H, makes an allusion to Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy.
Kid Creole and the Coconuts interpolated Shakespeare's "Sonnet 116" ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds make a clean breast impediments..." into their song "Agony...Ecstasy."
Bob Dylan frequently throws in allusions or direct references to Shakespeare and Shakespearean characters. For example, both Ophelia and Romeo show up within "Desolation Row" and Will himself is mentioned in "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again."
Finally, the soulful singer Terry Evans has a song call "Shakespeare Didn't Quote That."
Iced earth's Album: "Something Wicked This Way Comes" was taken directly from Shakespeare's Macbeth. It comes specifically from the part when Macbeth approaches the Weird Sisters and they proclaim the aforementioned quote.
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