![]() ![]() "Have you read The Screwtape Letters?" he asked, name-checking another Lewis favourite. She wanted to know where the God-fearing young Bono had gone. She was rather confused by the singer's stage behaviour, with his devil's horns and his irony and all those cynical pronouncements on the world. During a concert at Cardiff Arms Park in 1993, Bono pulled a girl out from the audience for a dance. They were all big CS Lewis readers and the name was adapted from his science fiction books, Perelandra and Voyage To Venus.īut U2 are probably the most famous admirers of the Belfast writer. Meanwhile, Liam Gallagher from Oasis claims that he's only ever read one book in his life, The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe.īefore they settled on the name Queen, Freddie Mercury and his mates wanted to call themselves either The Grand Dance or The Great Dance. American rockers Phish have recorded a track called Prince Caspian, and apparently there's a band of the same name out there somewhere. ![]() ![]() There's a Dublin band called Aslan, as well as the Australian grunge act Silverchair. ![]() His Narnia books are, naturally, the most popular sources. His idea of a good night was a smoke of his pipe, a glass of beer at the Eagle And Child pub, and perhaps a couple of chapters of Beowulf before bedtime.Įven so, his stories are constantly referred to in stadium rock sets, in the middle of billowing concept albums and in roaring choruses throughout the western world. CS Lewis wasn't really a rock and roll sort of a guy. ![]()
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