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The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

Bruce Springsteen

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Bruce Springsteen
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: September 23
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Long Branch
New Jersey
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen
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