Pop Smart - Additional Salman Rushdie viewing
In my interview with Salman Rushdie this week, I talk about how the Satanic Verses author and Emory professor has not just a rock star level of fame, but comes close to being an actual rock star. He’s not a musician (that I know of), but his novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet concerns a fictional Indian rock band that becomes as big as The Beatles. U2 took inspiration from the book to pen a song titled “The Ground Beneath Her Feet,” using the words from Rushdie’s own lyrics in the book, and giving him a “writer” credit. Here’s the video for “The Ground Beneath Her Feet” (from the soundtrack of Wim Wenders’ film The Million Dollar Hotel):
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