Golden Hair - Syd Barrett (James Joyce's poem set to music)

I Am The Walrus - Beatles (It is speculated that this song was inspired by Finnegans Wake)

The Sensual World - Kate Bush (Lyrics are adapted from Molly's soliliquoy in Ulysses)

Rejoyce - Jefferson Airplane (song from After Bathing At Baxters, lyrics are a stream of consciousness exploration around themes and characters taken from Ulysses)

Eve - Dream Theater (Dream Theater's keyboardist ia a Joyce fan and when they perform the instrumental "Eve", the group incorporates recorded readings from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man into the music.

It's also speculated that the video from R.E.M.'s Losing My Religion is full of Joycean allusions, particularly from Portait as well.

White Ship and At The Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft are bases on stories by H.P. Lovecraft.

I am the Walrus was inspired by the poem, The Walrus and The Carpenter, which was part of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.

Lennon however, did take the line Goo Goo Ga Joob from Joyce's Fininnegans Wake




You can find a decent list of songs/recordings influenced by books here.

http://www.artistsforliteracy.org/famous.html