And finally, The City of London sings a song for Bob Diamond.

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Mink DeVille knows the truth of a city street and the courage in a ghetto love song.

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The song includes several references to the city of Berlin, where Bowie and Visconti produced a critically-acclaimed trilogy of albums - Low, Heroes and Lodger - in the 1970s.

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Since 2007, HGOco has commissioned 14 operas and two song cycles, most of them based on the stories of the city's immigrants.

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The song includes a lyric about shoes that might help travelers avoid one of the city's most venerable, if comic, hustles.

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I'll be expecting plenty of Man City shirts in the crowd and hopefully a few of the Americans have been practising (Hatton's entrance song) Blue Moon.

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