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South West Armstrong, or Southwest Armstrong, is part of the crew around Khujo Goodie. He is credited (as S.W. Armstrong) in just a single song.

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‘Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant’, a famous Roman phrase reported to have been by desperate captives condemned to die in mock battles that were organized for the enjoyment of the Roman emperor.

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The doctor in question maintains he has sold his soul to the British National Health Service, not to the Devil like in the famous German legend.

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Reference to Shakespeare, The Tempest Act 5 Scene 1, where an insect sings about sucking nectar from a flower. Tarquinius of Romford subverts the line to bloodsucking – literal as a medieval medical procedure and metaphorically for modern quackery, importing a sense of modern pharmaceutical pill prescription.

Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat’s back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough

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Romford is a town in East London, probably picked by Momus for its homophone with ‘Rome’.

Lucius Tarquinius Superbus was the last king of Rome before the rape of noblewoman Lucretia by his son Sextus resulted in the overthrow of Roman monarchy, and subsequently Rome’s transition to a republic, around 495 BC.

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This song relates the much-dramatized rape of Lucretia to the Faust legend, anachronistically set in 80s London.

Lucretia was a noblewoman in Ancient Rome whose rape by the son of the king (Sextus Tarquin) generated so much anger that it resulted in a rebellion which overthrew the Roman monarchy.

The song takes place as a dialectic between Dr. Faust, the legendary doctor who famously sold his soul to the devil in exchange for unlimited knowledge, representing (corrupted) good sense, and Tarquinius, who cannot help himself but follow his fleshly lusts.

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Likened to the young superpower of the United States, which asserted its hegemony in the re-building of the world after World War II.

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Europe’s wave of peace and democracy during the interbellum ended soon, as the fascists rose to power. Likened to the man who himself becomes an authoritarian figure after gaining his independence.

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Probably a reference to the Christmas truce in 1914, an unofficial ceasefire where warring factions lay down weapons, shared seasonal greetings and ate meals together. This represents the good nature with which Europe had started the war, which became more gruesome as time dragged on.

The truces were not unique to the Christmas period and reflected a mood of “live and let live”, where infantry close together would stop fighting and fraternise, engaging in conversation or bartering for cigarettes

Likewise with the family theme: it is a trope for broken homes to only come together in peace during Christmas, which often results in explosive argument.

as any advice column published around the holidays can attest to, as relatives who can get along when they keep a respectful distance from one another can end up uncomfortable with one another if they have to be in the same room, especially if the stress of major holidays and the social pressure to present a joyful facade reach a boiling point

Dinner and a Show, TV Tropes

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According to the Ethiopian mythology, Sheba born a son with Solomon which continued into the Ethiopian royal lineage.

She did not immediately agree to let Solomon take her virginity. According to legend, he tricked her into visiting his bed. After a parting feast in her honor, where much alcohol was served, Solomon ordered his court to hide all sources of water except one glass of water next to his own bed. When Sheba woke up in the middle of the night, craving water, she found the glass next to his bed, fulfilling a covenant that Solomon could take her if she appeared next to his bed while he was lying there.

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