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The Ripper has also been referenced in other ways in popular culture.
 
Artists as varied as [[Motörhead]], [[Macabre (band)|Macabre]], [[Roland Kirk]], [[Morrissey]], [[Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds]], [[LL Cool J]], [[The White Stripes]], [[Judas Priest]], [[Grim Reaper]], [[Queensrÿche]], [[Falconer]], [[My Chemical Romance]], [[Link Wray]], [[The Legendary Pink Dots]], [[Kanye West]], [[Iced Earth]], [[Screaming Lord Sutch]], and [[Nationalteatern]] have recorded songs thattitled or mentionabout Jack the Ripper. Chicago-based pop-rock band [[Spitalfield]] took its name from what members describe as a village where Jack the Ripper came from. The name for this ___location is actually [[Spitalfields]], and it is not a village but a section of London's East End.
 
A number of companies also produce Jack the Ripper figurines or toys, sometimes leading to public protest, as when the family of victims of serial killer [[Robert Pickton|Robert William Pickton]] objected to the sale of Ripper dolls at the [[Vancouver]] [[Virgin Megastore]]. [http://www.missingpeople.net/family_of_missing_woman_wants_se.htm]