Literary and Other References
In Graham Greene's novel Brighton Rock, the character Ida says, "It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton."
British music-hall entertainer and film star George Formby helped write and perform the song "With My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock".
"Floating", a whimsical Moody Blues song from their album To Our Children's Children's Children, has the lines "The candy stores will be brand new, and you'll buy rock with the Moon right through!", referring to rock being sold at a resort on the Moon.
Brian May, lead guitarist of the British rock band Queen wrote the song "Brighton Rock", which appeared on Queen's 1974 album Sheer Heart Attack. It concerns a young couple's illicit weekend away without their parents' knowledge in a seaside town and became the basis for May's famous "Brighton Rock" guitar solos which became a standard feature of the group's live shows.
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Famous quotes containing the word literary:
“I went to a literary gathering once.... The place was filled with people who looked as if they had been scraped up out of drains. The ladies ran to draped plush dresses—for Art; to wreaths of silken flowerets in the hair—for Femininity; and, somewhere between the two adornments, to chain-drive pince-nez—for Astigmatism. The gentlemen were small and somewhat in need of dusting.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)