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I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
Al Yankovic
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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that.
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones'?'
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