Purportedly inspired by a television transmission of the Joy Strings Salvation Army band's "Love That's All Around", the song was first released as a single in the UK in October 1967.

The apparent secrecy and the initiation rites performed on new members were purportedly inspired by Rosicrucianism and the Freemasonry.

The theme of this drama is purportedly inspired by the life of the emperor himself.

The choice was purportedly inspired by the first stanza of Lord Byron's The Destruction of Sennacherib:

In 1895 Almirante, then just a small logging and farming community, was platted and renamed Laurel Hill, the name purportedly inspired by a large laurel tree which grew in the center of the community.

They were purportedly inspired by the wife of a Buick executive who always drove convertibles, but never lowered the top.

The cartoon character, Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks in the Little Orphan Annie series, was purportedly inspired by Warburg's life and times.

Formed in November 1990, Candlebox originally went by the name Uncle Duke; they changed their name the following year, purportedly inspired by lyrics from the Midnight Oil song "Tin Legs and Tin Mines".

He also produced poetry about Lenin, purportedly inspired by his Soviet education at the time.