234 By The Book, Chapter 3
The third in our occasional series of music with literary inspirations, assembled by Hugh with some new performances for our ears. The preshow tracks all had “book” in the title, and the postshow ones “read”.
Preshow
| Title | Artists | Album | Year |
| My Little Red Book | Manfred Mann | What’s New Pussycat? [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] | 1965 |
| Books Of Moses | Tom Waits | Orphans: Bastards | 2006 |
| You Can’t Judge A Book | Ben Sidran | Ben Sidran Live Around The World 1975-2015 | 2018 |
| I Could Write A Book (Edit) | Betty Carter | Betty Carter’s Finest Hour | 2003 |
| Picture Book | The Kinks | To the Bone | 1994 |
| Book Of Lies | Saga | Contact: Live In Munich [Disc 1] | 2009 |
| Books Are Burning | XTC | Nonsuch | 1992 |
| The Book Of Love | Peter Gabriel | Scratch My Back | 2010 |
Main show
| Chapter 24 | Pink Floyd | Piper at the Gates of Dawn | 1967 |
| Hallelujah | John Cale | Fragments of a Rainy Season | 1992 |
| Alucard | Gentle Giant | Gentle Giant | 1976 |
| Moon Over Bourbon Street | Sting | The Dream Of The Blue Turtles | 1985 |
| Bridge Across Forever | Transatlantic | Bridge Across Forever | 2001 |
| Sailing To Philadelphia | James Taylor | October Road | 2001 |
| Crown of Creation | Jefferson Airplane | Crown of Creation | 1968 |
| Hey Pretty (Drive-By 2001 Remix) | Poe | Haunted | 2000 |
| Nimrodel/The Procession/The White Rider | Camel | Mirage [Japan Bonus Tracks] | 1974 |
| Rhayader / Rhayader Goes to Town | Camel | Coming of Age | 1999 |
| Tomorrow Never Knows | Phil Collins | Face Value | 1981 |
| Legend Of A Mind | The Moody Blues | A Night At Red Rocks | 1992 |
| Venus In Furs (Version 1) | The Velvet Underground | The Complete Matrix Tapes | 2015 |
| Macbeth | John Cale | Paris 1919 | 1973 |
| I Wanna Know (The Pit and the Pendulum) | Lou Reed | The Raven | 2003 |
| 1984 | Anaïs Mitchell | Hymns for the Exiled | 2004 |
| 1984/Dodo | David Bowie | Sound + Vision | 1989 |
| Mother Road | Camel | Paris Collection | 2001 |
| The Ghost Of Tom Joad | Bruce Springsteen | High Hopes | 2014 |
Postshow
| Please Read Me | Bee Gees | Bee Gees’ 1st | 1967 |
| I Can Read Your Mind | The Doobie Brothers | Cycles [Expanded] | 2002 |
| If You Could Read My Mind | Gordon Lightfoot | If You Could Read My Mind | 1970 |
| Read My Lips | Mary Chapin Carpenter | State Of The Heart | 1989 |
| Read About Love | Richard Thompson | Rumour and Sigh | 1991 |
| Do You Read Me | Rory Gallagher | Calling Card | 1976 |
| Please Read the Letter | Alison Krauss + Robert Plant | Raising Sand | 2007 |