Crash (J. G. Ballard Novel) - References in Popular Music

References in Popular Music

The Normal's 1978 song "Warm Leatherette" was inspired by the novel, as was "Miss the Girl," a 1983 single by The Creatures. Gary Numan's hit "Cars" was also inspired by this book. The Manic Street Preachers' song "Mausoleum" from 1994's The Holy Bible contains the famous Ballard quote about his reasons for writing the book.

The singer Glenn Danzig sings about this in his band Samhains song "Kiss Of Steel" on the album "November-Coming-Fire"

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