Footnotes to "Beat Crazy"

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In Every Dream Home (A Nightmare)

The song title probably refers to the Roxy Music song "In Every Dream Home (A Heartache)"

The Evil Eye

"I got a job in SE15 ..."
SE15 is the postcode for Peckham, an area in the south-east of London.

"I got the Cramps on the stereo ..."
That Cramps LP on the stereo would have been "Songs The Lord Taught Us" (released in March 1980) which contained the track "Zombie Dance". The Cramps were a US band formed in 1975.

Crime Don't Pay

"Crime doesn't pay" is/was a slogan of the FBI and the cartoon detective Dick Tracy, according to the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, revised 4th edition.

Battleground

(Dedicated to Linton Kwesi Johnson)
Linton Kwesi Johnson (1952- ), British dub poet.

Fit

"All ugly sisters must wear glass slippers ..."
References to the fairytale of Cinderella.