Cultural Influence
- Apart from creating the term "Stockholm syndrome", the robbery has inspired a feature film by Håkan Lindhé named Norrmalmstorg aired on Swedish television on August 29, 2003.
- Rapper Greydon Square has a song titled "Stockholm Syndrome" on his album The Kardashev Scale (album).
- Songwriter Derek Webb and Swedish rock band Backyard Babies have albums called Stockholm Syndrome.
- British rock band Muse and American rock band Blink-182 both have songs entitled "Stockholm Syndrome", the former on the album Absolution and the latter on its self-titled album. The American band Yo La Tengo also has a song of the same name on its album I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One.
- A short fictionalized story by Joe Meno, entitled "Stockholm 1973", chronicles these events. It was published in Issue 24 of Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern.
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