»La Gazza Ladra« (»Die diebische Elster«) ist eine Oper von Gioacchino Rossini. Die Band Marillion beginnt mit der Ouvertüre aus dieser Oper ihr Live-Album »The Thieving Magpie«.

Aus dem Song »Childhood's End?« stammen die folgenden Zeilen:

And it was morning.
And I found myself mourning,
for a childhood that I thought had disappeared.
I looked out the window,
And I saw a magpie in the rainbow, the rain had gone
I'm not alone, I turned to the mirror,
I saw you, the child, that once loved.
The child before they broke his heart,
Our heart, the heart that I believed was lost.