Rock bands who read
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How many literary references can you find in rock and roll? A lot. For purposes of this list, we stuck with band names.
If you think of any we missed, leave it (with literary citation) in the comments.
• We start with an obvious one: Shakespeare's Sister.
• Airborne Toxic Event — name refers to Dom DeLillo's "White Noise"
• Augie March — Saul Bellow's novel of the same name
• Belle & Sebastian — is the title of a French children's book by Cécile Aubry.
More after the jump.
• The Boo Radleys — Radley, of course, was the recluse in "To Kill A Mockingbird," by Harper Lee.
• Clem Snide, Steely Dan[1] — both references to William Burroughs' "Naked Lunch"
• Rollerskate Skinny — a line from "Catcher in the Rye": "She's quite skinny, like me, but nice skinny, rollerskate skinny."
• The Russian Futurists — taken from a broad literary and art movement at the beginning of the 1900s.
• Joy Division — From "House of Dolls," Joy Division is the name of a group of prostitutes in a Nazi concentration camp.
[1]Let me take this opportunity to remind you of the Steely Dan principle.
