The filth and the führers

We reveal which artists fill up the iPods and Spotify playlists of the world's most evil menBlame spin doctors or the inevitability of baby boomers coming to power, but today, nearly every politician seems to be a pop and rock aficionado. Gordon Brown claimed that listening to the Arctic Monkeys "really wakes you up in the mornings" while David Cameron and George Osborne were described by Anne McElvoy as being part of "the Jam generation". The Thrills and Jay-Z gained the presidential seal of ap...

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