![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By then, songwriters had widened their scope, moving away from religious mythology to retell folk stories and pass on the news – sometimes simply taking newspaper headlines and turning them into songs.Īs rock music came of age, so its ambitions grew, with big ideas in literature influencing big ideas on record. Going back to the dawn of civilization, stories were songs: Homer’s celebrated epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, were initially performed to the lute and serve as the bedrock of the oral tradition only later were they written down and printed in some of the world’s first books. ![]()
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