Odd Blood the late 1930s and early 1940s, was inspired to write "Ambling Alp" after reading about American boxer Joe Louis. The track's title comes from the nickname of one of Louis' adversaries, Italian Primo Carnera, while the lyrics, including the lines "Stick up for yourself son / Never mind what anybody else done", are from the perspective of Louis' father. Keating wrote "I Remember" as a love song about a woman—later to be his wife—he met and kissed on a plane; he has noted that for the time he overcame his fear of flying. "Mondegreen" is Keating's attempt to mix the
Achille Starace the "bersaglieri" pace, an Italian variant of goose-stepping. He is specially and more significantly remembered also for a policy of enrollment of the Italian people (either young or not) in fascist party-linked organizations that bore some semblance to the scout movement: "Opera Balilla", "Figli della lupa", "Avanguardisti", "Giovane fascista" and the labour-related "Organizzazione del Dopolavoro" (after-work sports). Sports were of particular importance in Fascist propaganda, heavily exploiting the successes of Italian athletes in international competitions (like boxer Primo Carnera or the Italy national football team), and Starace was quite instrumental in this field, tackling both the mass organisation and the