Friday night music is: Books

[Chromatic]

The Doors - The End

 

[C R]

And this is based on the book Johnny Got His Gun. The movie scenes in the video are from the 1971 film adaptation. Dalton Trumbo wrote the book and also directed the movie.

View: https://youtu.be/WM8bTdBs-cw

 

[the_mikey]

 

[Seevio]

 

[Seevio]

 

[newfhouse]

I Robot (based on the Isaac Asimov Robot Trilogy) - Alan Parsons Project

View: https://youtu.be/NQi-OSXznrY

 

[Poacher]

It's that time of night - Tom Waits time two or three from his Bastards: Book of Moses to start with:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7GwIvJhD8w


followed by On the Road (Jack Kerouac)

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiE0gz6o1Pc


and to end, Children's Story ( a lovely video by katmaidog

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYVlHqCC4Qo

 

[Poacher]

We've already had 1984; try some Roy Harper and Jimmy Page - Nineteen forty-eightish
"A million tons of printed sh1t comes through my door each day"

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eumlnmUCbyY

 

[Poacher]

In loving memory of Clive James - a would be author requests a writing implement to commence his career.
First off, Pete Atkin gives voice:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVewSRHeKSQ

But if you can't stand his rendition (it's not to everybody's taste), here's a beautiful a capella rendition from the Pocket Belles

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZXgG0c6RPs

 

[Poacher]

Continuing the a capella thread, Coral Island by R M Ballantyne, reinterpreted by the Flying Pickets

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3muMml_kA48

 

[netman]

Title is taken from Marvin the Paranoid Android from Douglas Adams' series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...

 

[netman]

Matthew Bellamy reveals the song to be inspired by "a book called The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski," explaining that "Brzezinski has the viewpoint that the Eurasian landmass, ie Europe, Asia and the Middle East, needs to be controlled by America to secure the oil supply." Bellamy goes on to suggest that the song is also influenced by George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, in which Eurasia is one of Earth's three super-states.

 

[iandg]

He's 70 today and was in 'The Book of Eli"

 

[raleighnut]

View: https://youtu.be/AhHrfXTBv2U

 

[Smudge]

Heard this on the radio today, title sorta fits even if the song doesn't.
Spandau's first and best single IMO.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE2sCISQmpE