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Having a slight interest in Jack the Ripper, though sorely lacking in any factual foundation, he came up with the basic structure of the plot: a fictitious diary that he would use to springboard a musical career and an album based on its content. To have a double strike blow against his hated nemesis: to best him in verse and song.
Let all Oz be agreed;
I need a better class of flying monkeys.
If what you're saying is true, then we all owe Steve Powell and great debt of gratitude, for it was the Diary that spurred Stephen Ryder's interest in Jack the Ripper and led to the creation of the Casebook.
Slipping easily into the persona of a woman-hating drug fiend, this oft-rejected, product of the early 70's had no trouble envisioning the thoughts of his misogynistic drug-crazed subject.
He had an old prized photograph album handed down from his mother containing photographs from the Victorian era. Realizing this was as close as he'd come to a suitable book upon which to pen his "opus", he removed the family portraits and began to pen the Diary of Jack the Ripper.
Let all Oz be agreed;
I need a better class of flying monkeys.
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