Posted: Friday, 18th May 2007
Scott Walker鈥檚 most recent album The Drift, contains songs inspired by real events, or political ideas. One song, Jesse, seems to juxtapose the death of Elvis鈥檚 twin brother Jesse with the destruction of the twin towers.
Watch Walker in rehearsal for the track Clara, which features a percussionist punching a slab of raw pork. The song's based on the execution of the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, when the fascist leader鈥檚 mistress, Claretta Petacci insisted on dying with him, and Walker recounts memories of seeing newsreel footage of their bodies strung up by their heels as a child. But as Scott himself warns; 鈥淵ou shouldn鈥檛 take the songs too literally鈥.
