5/9/2023 0 Comments The king must die![]() ![]() ![]() This time, the characters range from King Lear’s Cordelia to Macbeth. The Inspiration: Here’s another song inspired by characters featured in multiple Shakespeare plays. Before that, the line was used for one of the band’s live albums, 1976’s All the World’s a Stage. The lyrics, which were written by the quiet-but-undeniably-smart drummer Neil Peart, came after the band’s success with albums like 2112 and Permanent Waves. ![]() “Limelight,” opens up with a paraphrase of a speech in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. The Inspiration: Rush may no longer be filling stadiums, but in its heyday of 1981 the band wrote a song about battling with success. Lines Most Inspired by Shakespeare: “All the world’s indeed a stage and we are merely players.” Today, the day rumored to be his birth date and one that surely is the day of his death, we’re taking a look at some of the more modern takes on his work in music. Greats ranging from Lou Reed to Bob Dylan have drawn from the writer as an influence, and new blood like Titus Andronicus have even taken their name from one of his works. With his mastery of meter and an indisputable way with words, it’s no surprise that musicians flock to William Shakespeare for inspiration. ![]()
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