Never lend books

Shuffle threw up a lyric about "all the books that you read" and it struck me how often pop songs used to be about the printed word. Novels were a name-check: what you treasured, how you rated people, if they were cool. Bands were even named after books. Will we see/hear that again?

In another time an online search would have turned up the The Crucial Three's 'Read It Books' which is the original and best version. But here we are.

1. The Teardrop Explodes - 'Read It In Books'
2. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - 'Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken?'
3. The Sundays - 'Here's Where The Story Ends'
4. Lou Reed - 'Doin' The Things That We Want To'