Beautiful South cover (Don't Fear) The Reaper

[Tim]

According to the new BOC book, it's how many people they thought died everyday, but only a guess by the lyricist. (If you owned the book, you'd know that)
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Tony wrote:
 >
 > http://www.beautifulsouth.co.uk/bs/album.php
 > (Don't Fear) The Reaper
 >
 > "The bleakly toe-tapping light metal classic re-imagined as a Latin
 > salsa. No, really
 >
 > "Dave Rotheray was playing the riff in the studio and Damon, our
 > keyboardist, joined in and, to be honest, I don't think he knew what the
 > song was. So he just began to play this very Latin piano riff and Steady
 > fell in and I wanted to say, no, let's stop this right here but it sort
 > of suits it. Alison [Wheeler - co-vocalist] had no idea what the song
 > was. I always thought they were German because of that umlaut in the
 > name but they were from New York. Great lyrics but no idea what he's
 > singing about. '40,000 men and women every day'. What does that mean?""