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The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold

Andy Partridge

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Andy Partridge
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: November 11
Guitarist
Musician
Record Producer
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I'm really interested in bands that sound nothing like anything I do or can do. That's what interests me.
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Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder.
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