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Nickname · #1 Post by **Nickname** » Fri 30 Sep 2005, 1:10 pm

Can someone tell me what thing Neil told about the song (and the book which one inspired the song) a few months ago or a link to see the interview?

Very · #2 Post by **Very** » Mon 03 Oct 2005, 6:09 am

good question. any answers?

lucienchardon · #3 Post by **lucienchardon** » Mon 03 Oct 2005, 5:14 pm

I think he mentioned that in Word magazine but I don't have it. From what I remember the book is about grave robbers in London in the 1800s who used to steal corpses and sell them for medical research/training.

lucienchardon · #4 Post by **lucienchardon** » Mon 03 Oct 2005, 5:32 pm

Actually, the article is here:

viewtopic.php?t=7518

Hmmm · #5 Post by **Hmmm** » Mon 03 Oct 2005, 6:04 pm

Little bit about the Book:

Towards the end of 1831, the authorities unearthed a series of crimes at Number 3, Nova Scotia Gardens in East London that appeared to echo the notorious Burke and Hare killings in Edinburgh three years earlier. After a long investigation, it became known that a group of body snatchers - two men in particular, John Bishop and Thomas Williams, called the 'London Burkers' - were supplying the anatomy schools with fresh 'examples' for dissection.

The case became known as 'The Italian Boy' and caused a furore which led directly to the passing of controversial legislation which marked the beginning of the end of body snatching in Britain. The case revealed something else as well: some extremely unpleasant aspects of life in London, a city that had increased in size by one-third to over one-and-a-half million inhabitants between 1801 and 1831, and which was continuing to expand at a phenomenal and unprecedented rate. In The Italian Boy, Sarah Wise not only investigates the case of the London Burkers but also, by making use of an incredibly rich archival store, the lives of ordinary lower-class Londoners.

Miracle · #6 Post by **Miracle** » Mon 17 Oct 2005, 4:02 am

sounds intersting...

Niall · #7 Post by **Niall** » Mon 17 Oct 2005, 7:39 am

I am chuffed as it is a case I have been interested in for a long time.

Decisional · #8 Post by **Decisional** » Mon 17 Oct 2005, 4:30 pm

But how DO you write a song about it? And from whose point of view? The body snatcher's? The authorities'? The family and friends of the corpse? The corpse itself?

Will there be any morale to this tale at all?

Hmmm · #9 Post by **Hmmm** » Mon 17 Oct 2005, 4:45 pm

The Chorus could be "The Italian Boy,The Italian Boy", sung to a disco beat with a bit of "In the dead of night when the moon was bright somebody got a fright"..
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