Daß Mick Jagger vor dem Beginn des 69er Hyde-Park-Brian-Jones-Memorial-Konzertes einige Verse (Cantos XXXIX ff.) aus Shelleys "Adonais" vorgetragen hat, gehört zur Pop-Folklore. Diese Pointe war mir jedoch neu:

The next day a British newspaper, grudgingly impressed but slightly misunderstanding Jagger's pronunciation of "Shelley," duly reported a memorable reading from the works of the Cuban revolutionary "Che" Guevara, and ironically praised Mick for his political correctness. Among much other commentary, no one remarked that the ecstatic cloud of butterflies[released by Jagger] had slowly drifted across the adjacent Serpentine, where Shelley's first wife had also drowned.
Zitiert nach Richard Holmes: "He Doth Not Sleep" (NYRB, eAbo nötig), einem Artikel von 1992, in dem damals aktuelle Sekundärliteratur zu Shelley besprochen wird (und wo ein kleiner Faux-Pas bezüglich Brian Jones' Funktion bei den Stones passiert ist).

Weiters erfährt man - ich achte wirklich obsessiv auf solche Dinge:

[Shelley] translated from German, Spanish, Latin, Arabic, and Greek, including Plato's Symposium;