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• "One" by Metallica is based on the novel Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo.
• "Oor Hamlet" by Adam McNaughtan retells Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
• "Out of the Silent Planet" by Iron Maiden is based on the movie Forbidden Planet and the science-fiction novel by C. S. Lewis.
• "Oedipus" by Regina Spektor refers to the tragedy of Oedipus Rex by Sophocles.
• "Oedipus Rex" by Tom Lehrer also refers to the Sophocles play.
• "The Odyssey" by Symphony X is based on Homer's epic of the same name.
• "Ol' Evil Eye" by Insane Clown Posse is based on Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart.
• "Omega Man" by Iron Savior is based on the novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson.
• "Owen Meaney" by Lagwagon is based on the novel A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving.
• "Oh! You Pretty Things" by David Bowie contains lyrics that reference Anthem by Ayn Rand.
• "Ozymandias" by Jean-Jacques Burnel is a setting of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem.