88. The song “Frankenstein” was written by Edgar Winter. This monstrous instrumental was the last song on the album They Only Come Out at Night by the Edgar Winter Group. According to Winter: “When we were editing it in the studio, back in those days when you edited something, you physically had to cut the tape and splice it back together, so it was all over the control room, draped over the backs of chairs and the couch. We were making fun of it, trying to figure out how to put it back together, saying ‘Here’s the main body; the leg bone’s connected to the thigh bone…’ Then Chuck Ruff, my drummer, says, ‘Wow, man, it’s like Frankenstein.’ As soon as I heard that, I went, ‘Wow, that’s it!’ The monster was born.”
The creature that was originally created in Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, is far from the monster as depicted in the 1931 Boris Karloff movie. The real monster in the Mary Shelley book was Dr. Victor Frankenstein, who created the creature using unorthodox scientific methods. The creature is a very sympathetic being whose troubled existence comes not from his nature but from his hideous appearance. People fear him because of his looks not because of his actions.