The soundtrack to David and Samantha Cameron’s marriage is an album of Depression-era US folk music, the PM’s wife has disclosed.
Time (The Revelator) is a 2001 collection of austere narratives by Nashville singer Gillian Welch.
Peter Mensch, manager of rock stars such as Metallica and husband of ex-Tory MP Louise, discussed the Camerons’ tastes at a Tory function.
“I asked Samantha Cameron, ‘Why Gillian Welch?’,” said Mensch, who manages the singer and invited the couple to her Hammersmith concert in 2011.
"She said, ‘There was a record store in Notting Hill where David and I used to live. I would say to the guy with the purple mohawk “What should I be listening to?”
He sold me Time (the Revelator). For the past 10 years David and I listened to it all the time’ .”
