This page lists the artists that we believe inspired a fictional work, in alphabetical order, with any associated works below.
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1
13th Floor Elevators/ Roky Erickson
Stone Arabia - Dana Spiotta
A
Abba
The Exes - Pagan Kennedy
AC/DC
Appetite for Corruption: A Rockline Novel - Hilary Mortz
Ryan Adams
Off the Record - David Menconi
Alice Cooper
Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill
Ghoul - Michael Slade
Louis Armstrong
Dead Man's Blues - Ray Celestin
The Axeman's Jazz - Ray Celestin
The Animals/ Eric Burdon
Groupie - Jenny Fabian and Johnny Byrne
Aynsley Dunbar's Retaliation
Groupie - Jenny Fabian and Johnny Byrne
B
Babes In Toyland
I Wanna be Your Joey Ramone - Stephanie Kuehnert
Joan Baez
Never Mind the Pollacks - Neal Pollack
Chet Baker
Blue Bossa - Bart Schneider
The Band
The Band's Music from Big Pink - John Niven
Charles Beckman
Honky Tonk Girl - Charles Beckman
Stiv Bators /Lords of the New Church
Chelsea Horror Hotel: A Novel - Dee Dee Ramone
The Beach Boys
Glimpses - Lewis Shiner
The Beatles
The Carpet Frogs: Music After Tomorrow - Alan Arlt
Carry That Weight: The Story of the Beatles - Ernst Schultze
Everyone's Gone to the Moon - Philip Norman
Soul Music - Terry Pratchett
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
Paperback Writer - Mark Shipper
Up Against It: A Novel: A Screenplay For the Beatles - Joe Orton
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
All Night Stand - Thom Keyes
Big Star
Stone Arabia - Dana Spiotta
Blondie/ Debbie Harry
Blonde Ambition - Annette Burget Bailey
Chartbreak - Gillian Cross
Death of a Punk - John P. Browner
Platinum Logic - Tony Parsons
Blue
Fallen Star - Ian Barker
David Bowie
To Major Tom: The Bowie Letters: Concepts to Cult - Dave Thompson
Confessing the Blues - Anson Cameron
Gabriel's Gift - Hanif Koureshi
I Am Still The Greatest Says Johnny Angelo - Nik Cohn
The Thrill of it All - Joseph O’Connor
The Lonely Planet Boy - Barney Hoskyns
Brody Dalle / The Distillers
I Wanna be Your Joey Ramone - Stephanie Kuehnert
Bucks Fizz
All The Rage - Paul Magrs
C
The Cadillacs
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
The Capricorns
I Wanna be Your Joey Ramone - Stephanie Kuehnert
The Cardigans
Kill Your Friends - John Niven
Caravan
The Dwarves of Death - Jonathan Coe
Camper Van Beethoven
Boy Island - Camden Joy
Johnny Cash
Baby, Would I Lie? - Donald Westlake
Circle Jerks
Beige - Cecil Castellucci
Costello, Elvis
Hype - Robert Calvert
Cracker
Boy Island - Camden Joy
Crotch
Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer - Jen Sincero
Curtis Mayfield
Please Step Back - Ben Greenman
D
Dantalian's Chariot
Groupie - Jenny Fabian and Johnny Byrne
Day Action Band
You Think You Hear - Matt O'Keefe
Dimmu Borgir
Voice - Joseph Garraty
Pete Doherty
Sick of Being Me - Sean Egan
The Doors/ Jim Morrison
Bright Midnight - Chris Formant
Glimpses - Lewis Shiner
Jim Morrison's Adventures in the Afterlife - Mick Farren
Passing Through the Flame - Norman Spinrad
The Texts of Festival - Mick Farren
Ungrateful Dead: Murder at the Fillmore - Patricia Morrison
Bob Dylan
Juliet, Naked: A Novel - Nick Hornby
The Band's Music from Big Pink - John Niven
Never Mind the Pollacks - Neal Pollack
Great Jones Street - Don DeLillo
The Texts of Festival - Mick Farren
E
The Edsels
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
El Diablo
Rebecca Rocks - Anna Carey
The El Dorados
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Royston Ellis
Myself For Fame - Royston Ellis
F
Marianne Faithful
Gimme More - Liza Cody
False Prophets
Exit 25 Utopia - Steven Wishnia
When the Drumming Stops - Steven Wishnia
Family
Groupie - Jenny Fabian and Johnny Byrne
Fish
Espedair Street - Iain Banks
The Flaming Lips
Gary Benchley, Rock Star - Paul Ford
Flat Duo Jets
Off the Record - David Menconi
Fleetwood Mac
Espedair Street - Iain Banks
The Exes - Pagan Kennedy
The Flying Burrito Brothers
Diamond Star Halo - Tiffany Murray
Connie Francis
The A&R Man - Robert Hancock
Aretha Franklin
The Gangster of Love - Jessica Hagedorn
Fugazi
Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing - Abram Shalom Himelstein and Jamie Schweser
The Fugs
Groupie - Jenny Fabian and Johnny Byrne
Funkadelic
The Gangster of Love - Jessica Hagedorn
G
The Gangster Choir
The Gangster of Love - Jessica Hagedorn
Garbage
Guitar Girl - Sarra Manning
Marvin Gaye
Please Step Back - Ben Greenman
George Clinton and Parliament
The Gangster of Love - Jessica Hagedorn
The Go-Gos
Blonde Ambition - Annette Burget Bailey
The Golden Palominos
The Original 1982 - Lori Carson
Goldie
Kill Your Friends - John Niven
Grateful Dead
Dead Tour - Alan Izumi
Guided by Voices
Stone Arabia - Dana Spiotta
H
Happy Mondays
The Art of Falling Apart - Mark Dawson
PJ Harvey
I Wanna be Your Joey Ramone - Stephanie Kuehnert
Jimi Hendrix
Bright Midnight - Chris Formant
The Second Coming - John Niven
The Gangster of Love - Jessica Hagedorn
Glimpses - Lewis Shiner
Groupie - Jenny Fabian and Johnny Byrne
The Scene - Mike Jahn
The Hives
Kill Your Friends - John Niven
Buddy Holly
Soul Music - Terry Pratchett
Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede - Bradley Denton
Hüsker Dü
Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
I
The Indigo Girls
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
J
Wanda Jackson
Never Mind the Pollacks - Neal Pollack
Jandek
Stone Arabia - Dana Spiotta
Robert Johnson
Reservation Blues - Sherman Alexie
Janis Joplin
Bright Midnight - Chris Formant
Jefferson Airplane
Passing Through the Flame - Norman Spinrad
Jimmy Eat World
Dead Girl Walking - Chris Brookmyre
Joy Division
From Blue to Black - Joel Lane
K
The Killers
Gone Wild - Robert Muchamore
Boot Camp - Robert Muchamore
Rock War - Robert Muchamore
Kid Creole and the Coconuts
The Gangster of Love - Jessica Hagedorn
The Kinks
Waterloo Sunset: Stories - Ray Davies
L
John Lennon
Etc Etc Amen - Howard Male
Led Zeppelin
The Armageddon Rag - George R. R. Martin
Black Dogs (The Possibly True Story of Classic Rock's Greatest Robbery) - Jason Buhrmester
Boot Camp - Robert Muchamore
California Screamin': Murder at Monterey Pop - Patricia Morrison
Go Ask Malice: Murder at Woodstock - Patricia Morrison
Gone Wild - Robert Muchamore
A Hard Slay's Night: Murder at the Royal Albert Hall - Patricia Morrison
Rock War - Robert Muchamore
Love Him Madly: Murder At The Whisky - Patricia Morrison
Scareway to Heaven: Murder at the Fillmore East - Patricia Morrison
Let's Active
Cloud Cuckoo Land - Lisa Borders
Lightyears
Mockstars - Christopher Russell
Little Richard
I Am Still The Greatest Says Johnny Angelo - Nik Cohn
Lone Justice
Cloud Cuckoo Land - Lisa Borders
Courtney Love
Cherry Bomb - Jenny Valentish
Gimme More - Liza Cody
Girl - Blake Nelson
I Wanna be Your Joey Ramone - Stephanie Kuehnert
Lucid Nation
I Wanna be Your Joey Ramone - Stephanie Kuehnert
M
The Masters of Reality
Beer Goggles and Amplifiers: A Rock 'n' Roll Novella - Jeff Muendel
Joni Mitchell
Baroque-A-Nova - Kevin Chong
The Scene - Mike Jahn
The Mr. T Experience
King Dork Approximately - Frank Portman
King Dork - Frank Portman
The Monkees
Daydream Bereaver: Murder on the Good Ship Rock 'n' Roll - Patricia Morrison
N
Willie Nelson
Baja Oklahoma - Dan Jenkins
New Order
The Art of Falling Apart - Mark Dawson
New York Dolls/ Johnny Thunders
Chelsea Horror Hotel: A Novel - Dee Dee Ramone
The Nice
Groupie - Jenny Fabian and Johnny Byrne
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The Singer - Cathi Unsworth
Nirvana
Artificial Light - James Greer
Never Mind the Pollacks - Neal Pollack
Never Mind Nirvana - Mark Lindquist
The Dead Beats - Doug Johnstone
NOFX
Beige - Cecil Castellucci
Northern Alliance
The Ossians - Doug Johnstone
O
Old 97s
The Bad Decisions Playlist - Michael Rubens
Yoko Ono
Gimme More - Liza Cody
Ours
How to Kill a Rock Star - Tiffanie DeBartolo
P
Liz Phair
The Last Rock Star Book or: Liz Phair, A Rant - Camden Joy
Pink
I Wanna be Your Joey Ramone - Stephanie Kuehnert
Pink Floyd/ Syd Barratt
Groupie - Jenny Fabian and Johnny Byrne
A Piece of My Heart - Peter Robinson
The Pixies
Gary Benchley, Rock Star - Paul Ford
I Wanna be Your Joey Ramone - Stephanie Kuehnert
Karine Polwart
Dead Girl Walking - Chris Brookmyre
Iggy Pop
Never Mind the Pollacks - Neal Pollack
Elvis Presley
Almost Graceland - Steve Carlson
Such Vicious Minds - Daniel Klien
Viva Las Vengence - Daniel Klien
Blue Suede Clues - Daniel Klien
Elvis in the Morning - William F. Buckley Kill Me Tender - Daniel Klien Biggest Elvis - P.F. Kluge
Soul Music - Terry Pratchett
Elvissey - Jack Womack Graced Land - Laura Kalpakian
I Am Still The Greatest Says Johnny Angelo - Nik Cohn
PJ Proby
I Am Still The Greatest Says Johnny Angelo - Nik Cohn
R
R.E.M.
Cloud Cuckoo Land - Lisa Borders
Rage Against the Machine
Gone Wild - Robert Muchamore
Boot Camp - Robert Muchamore
Rock War - Robert Muchamore
The Ramones
Chelsea Horror Hotel: A Novel - Dee Dee Ramone
Death of a Punk - John P. Browner Long Way Back - Brendan Halpin
Never Mind the Pollacks - Neal Pollack
Rancid
Beige - Cecil Castellucci
The Reivers
Cloud Cuckoo Land - Lisa Borders
The Replacements
The Carpet Frogs: Music After Tomorrow - Alan Arlt
Smokey Robinson
The Gangster of Love - Jessica Hagedorn
The Rolling Stones
Evening's Empire: A Novel - Bill Flanagan
Never Mind the Pollacks - Neal Pollack
The Texts of Festival - Mick Farren
S
Scritty Pollitti
Faithless - John L. Williams
Sex Pistols
Chelsea Horror Hotel: A Novel - Dee Dee Ramone
The Shiffons
Happy Never After - Kathy Hogan Trocheck
The Shirelles
Happy Never After - Kathy Hogan Trocheck
Frank Sinatra
Platinum Logic - Tony Parsons
The Skunks
Boiled in Concrete - Jesse Sublett
Tough Baby - Jesse Sublett
Sleater-Kinney
I Wanna be Your Joey Ramone - Stephanie Kuehnert
Sleeper
Goodnight Steve McQueen - Louise Wener
The Sleepers
A Visit From The Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
Patti Smith Death of a Punk - John P. Browner
I Wanna be Your Joey Ramone - Stephanie Kuehnert
The Smiths
How Soon Is Never? - Marc Spitz
The Social Deviants
The Tale of Willy's Rats - Mick Farren
The Soft Machine
Groupie - Jenny Fabian and Johnny Byrne
Sonic Youth
I Wanna be Your Joey Ramone - Stephanie Kuehnert
Soundgarden
The Dead Beats - Doug Johnstone
Britney Spears
Star Island - Carl Hiaasen Britney Spears is a Three-Headed Alien - Mel Gilden
Phil Spector
Fuel-Injected Dreams - James Robert Baker
Ronnie Spector
Fuel-Injected Dreams - James Robert Baker
The Spice Girls
Kill Your Friends - John Niven
Spooky Tooth
Groupie - Jenny Fabian and Johnny Byrne
Bruce Springsteen
The Second Coming - John Niven
The Stone Coyotes
Be Cool - Elmore Leonard
Sly Stone / Sly and the Family Stone
The Gangster of Love - Jessica Hagedorn
Please Step Back - Ben Greenman
T
Talking Heads
Death of a Punk - John P. Browner
Television
Stone Arabia - Dana Spiotta
Hank Thompson
Crazy Heart - Thomas Cobb
Ike and Tina Turner /Tina Turner
The Scene - Mike Jahn
Goodbye Without Leaving - Laurie Colwin
U
U2
How to Kill a Rock Star - Tiffanie DeBartolo
Spotlight - Carole Bellacera
The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie
V
The Velvet Underground
I Play Drums in a Band Called Okay - Toby Litt
Never Mind the Pollacks - Neal Pollack
Passing Through the Flame - Norman Spinrad
The Veronicas
Cherry Bomb - Jenny Valentish
The Verve
Powder: An Everyday Story of Rock 'n' Roll Folk - Kevin Sampson
W
Roger Whittaker
Birdy Jones - EW Hildick
The Who
Horse’s Neck - Pete Townsend
Wilco
The Bad Decisions Playlist - Michael Rubens
The Wishniaks
Cloud Cuckoo Land - Lisa Borders
X
X Factor
Chart Throb - Ben Elton
Y
The Youth of Today
Ten Thousand Saints - Eleanor Henderson
Z
Mia Zapata/ The Gits
I Wanna be Your Joey Ramone - Stephanie Kuehnert
Frank Zappa
America the Beautiful : A Novel - Moon Unit Zappa
Warren Zevon
Basket Case - Carl Hiaasen
Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction
Get Your Cock Out - Mark Manning
Zoot Money's Big Roll Band
Groupie - Jenny Fabian and Johnny Byrne
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