Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier

It's about a statue of Elvis that is located on blackpool pier well literally anyway. It's also a comment on the americanisation of britain or so I read somewhere. The irony of having an american hero built out of lancashire pottery.

you would never expect something this harsh to feature a harp as a significant part of it

but what's with the line "all american trilogy"?

"American trilogy" was a medley of songs performed by Elvis. Anyway, the meanings's clear. One of my favorite album openers ever.

I think it's about a guy who's about to commit suicide by jumping of Blackpool Pier, because he feels 'overweight and out of date'

We take so much from America but what have they got to give? Elvis Presley, Mickey Mouse, Playboy Magazine and McDonalds. 'It's so fucking funny, it's absurd'.

Yes, just the way that Britain is just trying to become a smaller version of America, right down to the tiniest detail. I think this applies to now more than it did when it came out.

although it is not very likely (according to nicky wire enola/alone is a melancholic song inspired by looking at a picture taken at his wedding of several people of whom two - richey edwards and philip hall - were not in his life anymore), mirroring 'alone' to 'enola' may partly have been inspired by the fact that THE PLANE THAT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB ON HIROSHIMA WAS CALLED 'ENOLA GAY'. At 2:45 a.m. on Monday, August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber, the 'Enola Gay', took off from Tinian, a North Pacific island in the Marianas, 1,500 miles south of Japan. The twelve-man crew were on board to make sure this secret mission went smoothly. Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot, nicknamed the B-29 'Enola Gay' after his mother. Just before take-off, the plane's nickname was painted on its side.

Americana in Britain-very relevant!

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