Harrowdown Hill




Det går op for mig at sangen Harrowdown Hill på Thom Yorkes "The Eraser" er en særdeles politisk - og tragisk - sag.

"Did I fall or was I pushed? / Did I fall or was I pushed?"

Fra wikipeda-opslaget:
"Harrowdown Hill in Oxfordshire is notable for being the place where the body of Dr David Kelly was found in 2003. His evidence had raised questions about Saddam Hussein's possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction — the official justification for the UK government's decision to invade Iraq. In an interview with The Globe and Mail, Yorke said, "The government and the Ministry of Defence... were directly responsible for outing him and that put him in a position of unbearable pressure that he couldn't deal with, and they knew they were doing it and what it would do to him... I've been feeling really uncomfortable about that song lately, because it was a personal tragedy, and Dr Kelly has a family who are still grieving. But I also felt that not to write it would perhaps have been worse."^[2]

David Kelly. Husker folk stadig ham? Mere her