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The American president is no “ordinary adversary” who can be wined, dined and reasoned with, he said, but someone who “stands far outside the bounds of diplomacy and the rule of law between civilized nations.”

This push and pull between wilderness and civilized life, or wildness versus timidity, has preoccupied Brown for the duration of his career, and it is what brought Brown to his robot.

He was used to producing Genesis and other civilized, well-behaved, respectful musicians not to be stuck on an island with three a— going at it.

In surrendering their dignity and self-respect by kowtowing to Trump, he gives them something in return: a permission slip to break the moral code of civilized society.

This wild and impolitic work startled civilized Parisian salons with what sounded like sheer ugliness.