In these songs ... Funny in a Different Language, Fitzgerald's memoir evokes the confusion men who consider themselves beyond the strictures of traditional roles — gender, class, political ...

The Beatles often included bits of sophomoric humor as a way to leaven songs that might otherwise ... to Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, who were political leaders in Great Britain at the time ...

"It was funny seeing my song at the presidential debate ... He refutes that by saying his songs written about class such as "Doggonit" actually "defend the poor." Despite the exasperation ...