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• "I Am the Walrus" by The Beatles includes lines from a recording of a performance of William Shakespeare's King Lear.
• "I Can't Let You In" by Hannah Fury is about Fiyero's tragic affair with Elphaba (told from her point of view) from Gregory Maguire's Wicked.
• "I Cheat the Hangman" by Doobie Brothers is a song inspired by the story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce.
• I Robot is an LP by The Alan Parsons Project which retells several Isaac Asimov stories.
• "I Have Seen The Future" by The Bravery is a song inspired by the story Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
• "I Robot" by the UK Subs is based on I, Robot by Isaac Asimov.
• "If I Die Young" by The Band Perry based on the poem "Lady of Shallot"
• "Indiana" by Meg & Dia is based on the George Sands novel of the same name.
• "In Like a Lion (Always Winter)" by Relient K is about C. S. Lewis's The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.
• "Insener Garini Hüperboloid" by Vennaskond is about The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy.
• "Into the West" by Annie Lennox is about The Lord of the Rings
• "Invisible Monsters" by Motion City Soundtrack is about Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk.
• "Time to Dance" by Panic! at the Disco is also based on Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters.
• "Ion Square" by Bloc Party uses part of i carry your heart with me by E. E. Cummings as its chorus.
• "It Was Her House That Killed Nessarose" by Hannah Fury is about Elphaba's perception of Dorothy from Gregory Maguire's Wicked.