Echoes the great Sam Cooke song "Wonderful World," but with a brilliant patina of irony, since the lyrics of "Mayor of Simpleton" could only have been written by an extraordinarily clever lyricist. Truly one of the best pop songs of the 1980s.
Echoes the great Sam Cooke song "Wonderful World," but with a brilliant patina of irony, since the lyrics of "Mayor of Simpleton" could only have been written by an extraordinarily clever lyricist. Truly one of the best pop songs of the 1980s.