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Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
Billy Joel
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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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