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There's a place in the world for the angry young man With his working class ties and his radical plans He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl He's always at home with his back to the wall And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost And he struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross And he likes to be known as the angry young man.

Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
Composer
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
New York City
New York
William Martin Joel
William Martin Billy Joel
BJ
William M. Joel
Always
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Bend
Men
Working
Refuse
Battles
World
Known
Angry
Struggles
Lost
Battle
Scar
Bleeds
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Ties
Crawl
Young
Wall
Radical
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Home
Proud
Cross
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Back
Struggle
Crosses
Scars

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