Produced by Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard, Stevie Nicks‘ seventh solo album, In Your Dreams, also features a a musical ode to Poe’s posthumous tale. The last poem that Poe completed within his lifetime, “Annabel Lee” was published just after his death in 1849 and has been set to everything from classical music to songs by artists, including Joan Baez, Black Rebel Motorcycle Jacket, Bright Eyes, and Josh Ritter. To the tintinabulation that so musically wellsįrom the jingling and the tinkling of the bells What a world of merriment their melody foretells! Telling the tale behind the different states of chiming bells, his four-part, onomatopoeic stanzas increasingly develop from the lighter jingling and tinkling of bells around holidays and weddings through the more dreadful throbbing bells of death.įor his first album, All the News That’s Fit to Sing, the late folk singer Phil Ochs pulled from real-life stories in pieces of journalism, historic events and was inspired by excerpts from classic books and poetry, including “The Bells,” which he set to music. Published after his death, “The Bells” became one of Poe’s most well-known poems. Here’s a look into five songs that credit Poe.
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