This is a concept album of original music and comprises 20 tracks musically depicting the story of the infamous Jack the Ripper, performed and composed by Mike Bradbury

© Mike Bradbury 2004

Track List:

1. The Last Victim - rock intro outlining the events

2. Ripper Emerges - sounds of the Ripper stalking his last victim

3. Secret Marriage - did Prince Edward secretly marry Annie Crook?

4. Whitechapel; Black Nights - dark atmospheric music sets the scene

5. Seagull Swoops - did the Masonic Grand Masters orchestrate the whole
                                              plot?

6. Waters of the Thames - do the waters of the Thames hold a dark secret?

7. Gin-Queen Alley - visualise a group of prostitutes late at night...

8. Sixpence My Dear - “Sixpence at the wall my dear?” That`s all they needed
                           daily to pay for lodgings, food and alcohol

9. Victims Remembered - the mood turns to melancholy as we remember the Ripper's
             list of female murder victims who were no more than the wrong people in the wrong
                                                       place who shared a secret

10. Safe In Their Beds - London folk can sleep peacefully tonight

11. The Ripper....Revealed - dark clues from the Ripper

12. The Boast - 5 were killed but only 4 intended- should we feel any remorse for Jack
                        and his cronies? Were they just following Masonic orders?

13. Escape to France - did Jack flee the country across the Channel to the French coast
               to avoid capture, returning a week later when the searcheshad been called off?

14. Dawn....and Peace - as dawn breaks, the city's inhabitants awake to start their daily
                                                           business

15. London Sleeps Tonight - as gas lamps dim and wisps of sooty smoke rise above
           London’s silhouetted skyline, its inhabitants are in no danger while Jack's abroad

16. Taunting - Jack's back in London, taunting the Metropolitan police withmore clues to
                                    his identity

17. On The Run - Jack finds himself cut off from his Whitechapel hide-awayand is forced
                 south through the streets towards a Freemasons’lodge by theThames

18. Secret Trial - a Masonic court issues swift justice to mad Jack

19. Retribution - the Masonic Lodge proves to be no safe harbour; instead he’s held
          captive whilst they decide what to do with the man who went out of control. To
                 eliminate the women? Yes - but were the mutilations necessary?

20. Incarceration - thrown into a dark, dank cell somewhere in the bowels of London’s
                               backstreets, Jack is left to rot in hell until his death

                                 Click on the links above to hear sound samples

                                                          Click here for lyrics

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