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Sometimes, literally within a few minutes, you'd be off this amazing roaring scene and back at your hotel room, staring at the patten of the wallpaper. It's very surreal. You're back in your room, and it's dead quiet and really weird.
Andy Summers
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Andy Summers
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 31
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