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Rocking wonderland sex, drugs, rock & roll ... and, believe it or not, reading: Book talks to Aerosmith's Steven Tyler about Lewis Carroll, J.R.R. Tolkien and Rumi--before tracking down a few connections between music lyrics and the world of books

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From: Book
Date: 20020301
Author:Quitkin, Megan

The song "Sunshine," from your latest album, Just Push Play, has a lot of references to rabbits, hatters and mushrooms. Was it influenced by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? Sunshine was a girl I made love to in my mom and dad's bed when I was seventeen on LSD. She was my ray of sunshine at that time. In my experiences, I was Alice for a couple of years, and the tea party was any band I was ever in.

What are musicians doing, exactly, when they borrow--or steal--a writer's ideas? It's a little tip of the hat to those you've learned from. If there's a deeper understanding that ...

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