Album: Lord Sutch & the Savages (1981)
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  • The anonymous serial killer Jack The Ripper is often portrayed as a Victorian gentleman in suit and top hat; Screaming Lord Sutch portrayed him like this in his stage act.

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  • Paul from Livermore, CoThis song appears to be based on Alley Oop written by Dallas Frazier.
  • Cjniya from Detroit, MiOne of the most famous murderers in the history we know is Jack the Ripper. As he walked along the street in the19th century, with his black wind coat and top hat, he became more mythic and charming than the modern Zodiac. Neither Zodiac nor Jack the Ripper kills people now. And it is believed that Jack the Ripper stopped killing since November 9th, 1888. I just wonder whether Jack the Ripper is still alive in this world. As a human being, he could not live as long as over one hundred years. But I believe that his spirit could stay. It is said that no one knows who the Jack the Ripper was and no one knows what happen to him on November 9th, 1888. What stopped him killing? Was he enough for the human bodies? Or he is the evil from Hell and after that date he just returned home?
    I believe that someone knew something about him. No one could be totally individual in this world. As an old saying, what is done by night appears by day. Maybe some victims were killed because they knew who Jack the Ripper was. It is horrible as I think that Jack the Ripper might come back and might be the ordinary people among us. You would never know that the shy man in your company or live next door---- you even dance together and wear the same rubber wristbands in the ball---- would be the cold blood killer at night. At the thought of he was a human being; I would be scared to wake up from the deepest sleep. But that is human being---- we could kill the creature of our kind, we could even eat the meat of our kind and in the daily life we just try our best to rob the creature of our kind. Sometime the city could be bloody than the jungle.
  • Matthew from Milford, Ma Gee, I wonder why no radio stations play this...
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