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Tom Waits: A Mellower Prince Of Melancholy

Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 15 September 1992

HE MIGHT STILL dress as though he staggers around sniffing under dustbin lids, but now the self styled Oddball Kid refuses to play his old role of roughneck rock 'n' roller.

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