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Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

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Al Stewart
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: September 5
Poet
Recording Artist
Singer-Songwriter
Glasgow
Scotland
Alastair Ian Stewart
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Rest
Folks
Metals
Thing
Audience
Heavy
Cult
Kind
Attention
Image
Cents
Sound
Western
Lyrics
Tribal
Words
Rock
Rap
Cent
Three
Rocks
Beat
Metal
Else
Interested
Historical
Pays
Two
Pay
Beats
Folk

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