Earlier this year The Waterboys released the full cd, An Appointment With Mr. Yeats, which features the poetry of W B Yeats set to music composed by the band. The record wasn't released in North America, but you can purchase it as an import. If you're interested at all in this project, read this interview with the band's singer and main songwriter Mike Scott to learn how the concept came about and how exactly he went about composing music to marry with Yeats' poetry.
Mike Scott (@MickPuck) also dug through some of his early music and found this cover of David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold The World" recorded in 1982 by his pre-Waterboys band The Red & The Black. Check out the cover below:
The Man Who Sold The World (1982) by mickpuck