Sorted By Real World Inspiration

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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