RANDY NeWmAN
There are, it seems, limits for even the greatest satirists. “I did write [a song about Trump], but it was just too vulgar,” Randy Newman tells us on p22. The mind boggles at how vulgar it must have been, given this grandiose farce about Russia’s bare-chested supremo. A 70-piece orchestra, turning on the old Broadway ritz, makes “Putin” one of Uncut’s most dramatic opening tracks to date.