| The Clash – The Magnificent Seven Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The Magnificent Seven were the 7 public cemeteries built outside Victorian London because the city graveyards got too full. This song is about busting your butt only to have your final rest in one of the Seven.. In 1832 Parliament passed a bill encouraging the establishment of seven private cemeteries in a ring around outer London, to provide ample space for burial. These are known today as the Magnificent Seven. The first to open, in 1832, was Kensal Green, followed by West Norwood (1837), Highgate Cemetery (1839), Nunhead (1840), Brompton (1840), Abney Park (1840), and Tower Hamlets (1841), The Magnificent Seven appealed in particular to the newly emerging middle class, keen to distance itself from the working class and to present to the public its social status. Graves were seen as a public extension to the family’s property, and cemeteries such as the Magnificent Seven provided a secure, well-maintained, costly place for families to establish permanent monuments to themselves — an immortality of sorts. |
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| The Clash – The Magnificent Seven Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The Magnificent Seven were the 7 public cemeteries built outside Victorian London because the city graveyards got too full. This song is about busting your butt only to have your final rest in one of the Seven.. In 1832 Parliament passed a bill encouraging the establishment of seven private cemeteries in a ring around outer London, to provide ample space for burial. These are known today as the Magnificent Seven. The first to open, in 1832, was Kensal Green, followed by West Norwood (1837), Highgate Cemetery (1839), Nunhead (1840), Brompton (1840), Abney Park (1840), and Tower Hamlets (1841), The Magnificent Seven appealed in particular to the newly emerging middle class, keen to distance itself from the working class and to present to the public its social status. Graves were seen as a public extension to the family’s property, and cemeteries such as the Magnificent Seven provided a secure, well-maintained, costly place for families to establish permanent monuments to themselves — an immortality of sorts. |
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