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‘I owe Iron Maiden my English A-level!’ The great literature our writers discovered through pop music


Ahead of World Book Day on Thursday, Guardian music writers pick out the musicians whose literary references illuminated them – from Adam Ant on Joe Orton to the National on Grace Paley

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