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There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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