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Dr Robert, leader of the Blow Monkeys, took his name from a Beatles song. The comparison with the Fab Four ends there, but this is also fab.

You may think it sounds a like a pop/soul love song, but in fact it is a critique of the socio-economic conditions in Britain at the time.

Sometimes you have to let rip.

What happens when you combine writer's block, African polyrhythms, funk, electronics, stream of consciousness lyrics and Brian Eno as producer?

This happens. It was pretty crazy (and fantastic) for those of us just listening to punk and new wave.

Louis Thomas Hardin, better known as Moondog, was a blind avant-garde American musician who worked in a variety of genres including jazz and classical, invented a series of his own instruments, influenced a bunch of other composers including the American minimalists, made a lot of his living by begging and briefly appeared in a cloak and horned helmet (he loved Norse mythology) on Sixth Avenue in New York. 

But never mind that.

Every song needs a hook and rapper KRS-One nailed it with his siren whoops. Careful or you'll be 'whooping' too.

The song, with its attack on generations of police behaviour, is part of a rap tradition which arguably began with NWA's 'Fuk tha Police' in 1989. Not that all police were offended. Apparently in 2014 two Essex policemen were caught blasting it out of their patrol car.

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If, like your Bulletin editor, you can't remember what was in the Bulletin last week, you can now access previous Bulletins via a link at the bottom of each week's Bulletin. I would put the link here as well, but you might miss Song of the Week if I did.

Thanks to marvellous Dave Miller in IT for setting it up.

Cormac McCarthy write a novel, later a film, entitled No Country for Old Men. He can't have had music country in mind. Eightysomethings the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney has just released new albums and Tom 'the Voice' Jones is still going strong at 86. Do eightysomethings in the audience still throw their underwear at him?

This is his two-minute masterpiece. Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin says he played as a session musician on the track.

Jamaican reggae star Gregory 'the Cool Ruler' Isaacs was prolific with over 500 albums including compilations. He was also prolific at being arrested - 27 times prior to a 1982 jail sentence, and he was blighted by cocaine. But that voice.

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