Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie's sixth novel. Published in 1999, it is a variation on the Orpheus/Eurydice myth, with rock music replacing Orpheus's lyre. The myth works as a red thread from which the author sometimes strays, but to which he attaches an endless series of references.
Composition. The lyrics of "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" were written by Salman Rushdie, based on his book of the same name.The soundtrack version of the song is a different mix from the one used in the film, which was not released commercially.
The Ground Beneath Her Feet (song) " The Ground Beneath Her Feet " is a song by Irish rock band U2. It appears in the 2000 film The Million Dollar Hotel, which was produced by U2 lead vocalist Bono, and the song was included on the film's soundtrack. Author Salman Rushdie is credited as the lyricist, as the words are taken from his 1999 book ...
The Gaze of Orpheus. In ancient Greek religion, The Gaze of Orpheus is derived from the antiquarian Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. In the story of Orpheus, the poet descends to the underworld to retrieve his wife, Eurydice from premature death, only on Hades’ and Persephone's condition that he does not look at her during the process ...
In Japan, Australia, Ireland and the UK, "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" (3:44) is a bonus track at the end. Various limited edition copies included a bonus disc with either "Always", "Summer Rain", or "Big Girls are Best". The 7 EP was subsequently released in the US, collecting these B-sides previously unavailable in that region.
Kilgore Trout is a fictional character created by author Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007). Trout is a notably unsuccessful author of paperback science fiction novels. "Trout" was inspired by the name of the author Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985), Vonnegut's colleague in the genre of science fiction. Vonnegut was amused by the notion of a person with the ...
3 videos made (final edit with The Beatles images included) "The Ballad of Ronnie Drew" 2008 Non-album videos "I Believe in Father Christmas" 2008 "Get on Your Boots" 2009 No Line on the Horizon: 2 videos made "Magnificent" 2009 "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" 2009 2 videos made: one animated and one live "Even Better Than the Real ...
Veniss Underground. Veniss Underground is a 2003 fantasy novel by American writer Jeff VanderMeer, following the adult lives of three different protagonists across a short period of time in the decadent, surreal city of Veniss, which is situated above a vast underground labyrinth of hovels and mines ruled over by the amoral crime lord Quin.