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By Hannah Nepilova\n <\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 16 January 2024 at 16:07 PM<\/p>

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‘Money makes the world go round,’ shriek Sally Bowles and the MC in Cabaret<\/em>. It’s a fact of which many a composer and lyricist has remained keenly aware, with scores of hit songs hingeing on the emotional impact of money, its possession, or lack of it. Here are ten of the best examples of songs about money, plucked from the world of classical music and beyond.<\/p>

Best songs about money<\/h2>

Giacomo Puccini: Che gelida manina (La boh\u00e8me<\/em>)<\/h3>

Love, class and money are inextricably linked in Puccini<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s La boh\u00e8me, <\/em>focusing, as it does, on the emotional lives of poor, struggling artists in 19th-century Paris. <\/em>This Act I aria, sung by Rodolfo on first meeting Mimi, makes the point neatly. For all its tenderness and soaring passion, couched in some of the opera\u2019s most ravishing music, he makes no bones about his poverty: \u201cI am, I am a poet. What’s my employment? Writing! Is that a living? Hardly!\u201d He goes on to insist that\u00a0 \u201cIn dreams and fond illusions or castles in the air \/ Richer is none on earth than I!\u201d Still, we get the message: without the backstop of upper middle class wealth, this particular love story is unlikely to be the most plain-sailing. This is a song about having very little money…<\/p>