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So I bought a forty-four magnum, it was solid steel cast, and in the blessed name of Elvis, well I just let it blast 'til my TV lay in pieces.

Bruce Springsteen

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Bruce Springsteen
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: September 23
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