Editing J. G. Ballard (section)

===In popular music===
Ballard has had a notable<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8008277.stm|title=What Pop Music Tells Us About J G Ballard|date=20 April 2009|publisher=BBC News|access-date=3 October 2009|archive-date=23 April 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423052125/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8008277.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> influence on popular music, where his work has been used as a basis for lyrical imagery, particularly amongst British [[post-punk]] and [[industrial music|industrial]] groups. Examples include albums such as ''[[Metamatic]]'' by [[John Foxx]] and ''[[The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A]]'' by [[Exodus (band)|Exodus]], ''[[The Burning World (album)|The Burning World]]'' by [[Swans (band)|Swans]], various songs by [[Joy Division]] (most famously "Atrocity Exhibition" from ''[[Closer (Joy Division album)|Closer]]'' and "Disorder" from ''[[Unknown Pleasures]]''),<ref name="bbc.co.uk">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8008277.stm|title=What pop music tells us about JG Ballard|publisher=BBC|access-date=3 October 2009|archive-date=23 April 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423052125/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8008277.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> "[[PXR5|High Rise]]" by [[Hawkwind]],<ref name="bbc.co.uk"/> "[[Miss the Girl]]" by [[Siouxsie Sioux]]'s second band [[The Creatures]] (based on ''Crash''), "[[Down in the Park]]" by [[Gary Numan]], "Chrome Injury" by [[The Church (band)|The Church]], "[[Drowned World/Substitute for Love]]" by [[Madonna]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/madonna-new-york-ny-july-25-2001|title=Madonna (New York, NY – July 25, 2001) – Feature|website=Slantmagazine.com|date=26 July 2001|access-date=21 May 2018|archive-date=4 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171004183503/https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/madonna-new-york-ny-july-25-2001|url-status=live}}</ref> "[[Warm Leatherette]]" by [[The Normal]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2009/apr/20/jg-ballard-music-inspired|title=JG Ballard: The music he inspired|last=Myers|first=Ben|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> and ''[[Atrocity Exhibition (album)|Atrocity Exhibition]]'' by [[Danny Brown]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Young |first=Alex |url=http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/07/danny-brown-has-named-his-new-album-atrocity-exhibition-after-the-joy-division-song/ |title=Danny Brown has named his new album Atrocity Exhibition after the Joy Division song |work=[[Consequence of Sound]] |date=18 July 2016 |access-date=30 September 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160925193537/http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/07/danny-brown-has-named-his-new-album-atrocity-exhibition-after-the-joy-division-song/ |archive-date=25 September 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/news/66881-danny-brown-announces-new-album-title-atrocity-exhibition/ |title=Danny Brown Announces New Album Title Atrocity Exhibition |work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=18 July 2016 |access-date=30 September 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160926195553/http://pitchfork.com/news/66881-danny-brown-announces-new-album-title-atrocity-exhibition/ |archive-date=26 September 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Renshaw |first=David |url=http://www.thefader.com/2016/07/18/danny-brown-new-album-atrocity-exhibition |title=Danny Brown Names New Album Atrocity Exhibition |work=[[The Fader]] |date=18 July 2016 |access-date=30 September 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921162416/http://www.thefader.com/2016/07/18/danny-brown-new-album-atrocity-exhibition |archive-date=21 September 2016 }}</ref>
Songwriters [[Trevor Horn]] and [[Bruce Woolley]] credit Ballard's story "[[The Sound-Sweep]]" with inspiring [[The Buggles]]' hit "[[Video Killed the Radio Star]]",<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/dec11/articles/classic-tracks-1211.htm |title=The Buggles 'Video Killed The Radio Star' |website=Sound on Sound |access-date=3 July 2014 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303180624/http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/dec11/articles/classic-tracks-1211.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> and the [[Adventures in Modern Recording|Buggles' second album]] included a song entitled "Vermillion Sands".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trevorhorn.com/horniculture/from_the_art_of_plastic_to_the.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613154405/http://www.trevorhorn.com/horniculture/from_the_art_of_plastic_to_the.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 June 2010 |title=Horniculture! • From the Art of Plastic to the Age of Noise |website=Trevorhorn.com }}</ref>
The 1978 post-punk band [[Comsat Angels]] took their name from one of Ballard's short stories.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gothtronic.com/?page=23&interviews=919 |title=Путеводитель по миру шоппинга – скидки, распродажи, акции – В мире модных брендов 23 |website=Gothtronic.com |date=21 November 2013 |access-date=3 July 2014 |archive-date=19 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091019121109/http://www.gothtronic.com/?page=23&interviews=919 |url-status=dead }}</ref> An early instrumental track by British [[electronic music]] group [[The Human League]] "4JG" bears Ballard's initials as a homage to the author (intended as a response to "[[2HB]]" by [[Roxy Music]]).<ref>{{cite web|title=The Human League's Phil Oakey is a man of letters – B is for Ballard|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/13082121.The_Human_League_s_Phil_Oakey_is_a_man_of_letters/|website=The Herald|location=Glasgow|date=24 November 2011|access-date=19 April 2018|archive-date=20 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180420010648/http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/13082121.The_Human_League_s_Phil_Oakey_is_a_man_of_letters/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Welsh rock band [[Manic Street Preachers]] include a sample from an interview with Ballard in their song "[[The Holy Bible (album)|Mausoleum]]".<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8008277.stm | publisher=BBC News | title=What pop music tells us about JG Ballard | date=20 April 2009 | access-date=5 May 2010 | archive-date=23 April 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423052125/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8008277.stm | url-status=live }}</ref> Additionally, the Manic Street Preachers song, "A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun", is taken from a line in the J. G. Ballard novel ''Cocaine Nights''. The English band [[Klaxons (English band)|Klaxons]] named their debut album ''[[Myths of the Near Future]]'' after one of Ballard's short story collections.<ref name="auto">{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8008277.stm|title=What pop music tells us about JG Ballard|date=20 April 2009|via=news.bbc.co.uk|access-date=12 October 2021|archive-date=20 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230620172404/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8008277.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> The band Empire of the Sun took their name from Ballard's novel.<ref name="auto"/> The American rock band [[The Sound of Animals Fighting]] took the name of the song [[The Ocean and the Sun|"The Heraldic Beak of the Manufacturer's Medallion"]] from ''Crash''. UK-based drum and bass producer Fortitude released an EP in 2016 called "Kline Coma Xero" named after characters in ''The Atrocity Exhibition''. The song "Terminal Beach" by the American band [[Yacht (band)|Yacht]] is a tribute to his short story collection that goes by the same name.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}} American indie musician and comic book artist [[Jeffrey Lewis]] mentions Ballard by name in his song "Cult Boyfriend", on the record ''A Turn in The Dream-Songs'' (2011), in reference to Ballard's [[cult following]] as an author.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jeffreylewis.bandcamp.com/album/a-turn-in-the-dream-songs-2011|title=A Turn in the Dream-Songs (2011), by Jeffrey Lewis|website=Jeffrey Lewis|access-date=4 November 2021|archive-date=4 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104190648/https://jeffreylewis.bandcamp.com/album/a-turn-in-the-dream-songs-2011|url-status=live}}</ref>