Tilting at windmills album features the song "Windmills." The first lyric reads, "I spend too much time raiding windmills We go side by side laughing until it's right...". The lyric may reflect how Don Quixote, true to his romantic tendencies, puts Dulcinea on a pedestal. As such, the reality of the character Dulcinea does not correspond to Don Quixote's fantasy of her. The US punk band ALL, on their 1988 album Allroy Sez, released a track titled "Don Quixote" written by singer/songwriter Dave Smalley featuring the line "tilting at windmills". Australian folk rock band Weddings Parties Anything released the album Roaring Days in
Windmills of the Gods Windmills of the Gods Windmills of the Gods is a 1987 thriller novel by American writer Sidney Sheldon. Mary Ashley, a professor at Kansas State University, is offered an ambassadorship by Paul Ellison, the US president. She rejects the offer because her husband, Dr. Edward Ashley, does not want to leave his medical practice, and she is not willing to be separated from him. She also feels that it is harder to find a good doctor for a small Kansas town than an ambassador to a foreign country. When her husband suddenly dies in a suspicious traffic accident, Ashley accepts