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Tom's Wild Year: The Story of Swordfishtrombones

Barney Hoskyns, Classic Rock, June 2013

HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU it was not. Tom Waits did, however, have news for fellow guest Ian Hislop, rounding on the latter after he suggested that Waits promote his new album more audibly, and snarling that he would "promote it in my own damn way".

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