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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
Song
Fall
Mind
Falls
Rare
Complete

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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
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