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Coming from the era of vinyl you could argue that everything went wrong in the music business the moment we went digital. The day the first CD came out, it all went downhill in the music industry. Digital destroyed everything.

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Andy Summers
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 31
Composer
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