EleMan CD


	*The CD*


	Composed during the autumn of 2004, this is the follow-up concept album to �Jack the Ripper� which was released in the previous spring. Here the sensitive subject of Joseph (John) Merrick, commonly known as `The Elephant Man` because of his terrible deformities, is tackled. Originally seen as a reviled Victorian circus freak, he has become loved, in retrospect, by a more sympathetic and educated 21st century public.


	© Mike Bradbury 2004

Track list . . .

1. The Workhouse - was a mile walk for Joseph, over the railway station bridge and up a steep hill to the Union
Workhouse.

2. On the Move - he is moved on again, trying to find lodgings but his terrible appearance puts people off.

3. The Match-Seller - after leaving his job at the cigar factory he is forced to hawk goods on the streets.

4. To Sleep Like Others - on his back, on a bed, a long-held dream.

5. Time to Move On - is there a better life to be found in London town?

6. Roll Up! Roll Up! - exhibited like a circus freak on Whitechapel Road.

7. Dreaming of Childhood - Joseph remembers his early childhood in the fields around his hometown of Leicester.

8. Cold Nights - as he is forced to sleep rough wherever he can, as the winter windsbite hard.

9. Chased - leaving Liverpool St station as he returns to London from an ill-fated but remarkable trip to Belgium.

10. Treeves - a surgeon at the London hospital, which eventually secured a safe haven for Joseph, takes him in.

11. Bedstead Square - alongside the hospital grounds where his basement room was no more than a cleared-out broom
closet.

12. My Beautiful Room - he rejoices in the simple joys of his own room, filled with small gifts from well-wishers.

13. Imaginary Waltz - in his mind it`s a fantasy world where pretty and famous ladies call for social visits.

14. Final Night - he has one tragic but fatal attempt to sleep on his back with his massive head on the pillow, as others do.

15. Sleep At Last - Joseph is found next morning by the nurse, dead from asphyxia.

Click the links above for sound samples

Click here for lyrics to tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11 & 12.

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