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Putin takes Trump for a ride
Song of the Day: After Rocky Mountain Mike's humour take on Donald Trump and the far right, another great satirist focuses on the Russian leader's ego through the prism of musical hall and ragtime
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Tom Waits – always in business
Song of the Day: After some sleep and dream songs, a lugubrious song by the inimitable raspy-voiced one is somewhere between surreal dream and nightmare, except it matches the chaos of recent events
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Howling, growling, tenderly looming: Tom Waits is a moon poet
Song of the Day: On this day of this rare astronomical eclipse event, and after a series of other lunar-related songs, we come to an artist who has, across the course of his career, described this celestial body in around 100 different ways
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The Tiger Lillies, with Martyn Jacques (centre)
Song of the Day: After yesterday's songs by Nick Cave from The Boatman Calls album, let's take an more macabre journey down river with the Brechtian punks from their first recordings in 1994
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Randy Newman
Song of the Day: Narcissism takes a different style now with the award-winning film score writer tripping gently along with a typically crisp and gentle irony. And yet he is really is different too …
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