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The first song "Stuck Between Stations" by The Hold Steady on the album Boys and Girls in America starts with the lyric, "There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right / Boys and Girls in America, they have such a sad time together." Sal Paradise was also the name of an indie rock band on Tooth & Nail Records in the mid 1990s, and he is mentioned in a song, "The Story of the Blues (part 2)", by singer-songwriter Pete Wylie, who quotes, "The city intellectuals of the world are divorced from the folk-bodied blood of the land and are just rootless fools." (In fact the quotation is from another of Kerouac's characters, Jack Duluoz - also based on Kerouac himself - in his 1968 novel Vanity of Duluoz).
In addition, Sal appears as "Sal Paradyse" in the Crazy Wide Forever section of Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier. He joins Dean Moriarty (who, in this story, is the grandson of Professor Moriarty), Mina Murray, and Allan Quatermain against Doctor Sachs.
The third track on the album The Holiday by English rock band Futures is entitled "Sal Paradise" and makes references to taking to the road and driving to L.A.
The English band The Crookes wrote a song called Sal Paradise, which appears in their second album "Hold Fast" (2012).
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