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Rock Rues Roles

By Warren Rojas
Posted July 25, 2012 at 4:18pm

Ian Hunter, formally of Mott the Hoople and now fronting Ian Hunter and the Rant Band, wants you to know exactly how he’d run the free world.

The British singer may be ineligible to actually occupy the Oval Office (damn birthplace requirements), but that hasn’t stopped him from airing his grievances about the daunting job in his latest single, “When I’m President”:

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