Hi! Do you perhaps know who the biggest influence were for The Libs put poetry wise? So like their fav poets and poems and poets which they used when creating songs and stuff? I know Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon but are there any others?
I’m not sure about “biggest influence”, but there are a lot of them. i’ll try to tell you what i know…
Of course as you said it’s Wilfred Owen (Anthem for Doomed Youth) ( and Siegfried Sassoon (Suicide in the trenches ) but also many more poets and writers. William Blake (He used term “Albion” many times, + Peter reads his poems in this documentary which we should not be talking about)
Oscar Wilde (Salome, Broken Love Song, Narcissist)Rudyard Kipling (Gunga din + The Man Who Would Be King)
+ also Arthur Rimbaud , Charles Baudelaire , Lord Byron , Jean Cocteau
Love On The Dole takes its name from the novel by Walter Greenwood, about working class poverty in the north of England during the depression of the 1930s.
The title of The Lust of the Libertines was taken from the novel with the same name by Marquis de Sade.Robert Graves ( The Last Post on the Bugle vs The Last Post by Graves)
+ Babyshambles’ songs:
References to Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevensonin Do You Know Me I Don’t Think So.
A’rebours was inspired by Joris-Karl Huysmans’ novel with the same name from 1884.
Thomas De Quincey’s essay from 1827 On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Artsvs Lost Art Of Murder (which also could contains a reference to Orwell’s Decline of the English Murder )
Emily Dickinson: “I took one draught of life, I’ll tell you what I paid, Precisely an existence, The market Price, They said”, vs Doherty’s At The Flophouse: “I took one draught of life. Paid only the market price”. There is also Emily’s portrait in the “Broken Love Song” video.
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene was quoted in Love You But You’re Green and unreleased song Colly Kibber.Peter told in one interview, that there is a quote from The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp in Sweet By and By.
Also i should add few facts about TV too.
“What became of the Likely Lads” contains a reference to the tvshow “The Likely Lads” from ‘60. Sequel from ‘70 was called “Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?” and there was a song with such lines in it: (sounds familiar, isnt it)Oh whatever happened to you? Oh whatever happened to me?What became of the people we used to be? Tomorrow’s almost over. Today went rather fast. It’s the only thing to look forward to – The past.
And of course Tony Hancock. “Up The Bracket” line is from his show («Are you looking for a punch up the bracket? I’ll give you a punch up the bracket»), Babyshambles’ tour in 2007 “Stone Me, What a Life!”.Lady Don’t Fall Backwards is a fiction novel from «Missing Page» episode of “Hancock’s Half Hour”.
Sorry for long post, i just couldn’t stop. But of course it is not full list.
