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Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage.

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Chris Cornell
Age: 52 †
Born: 1964
Born: July 20
Died: 2017
Died: May 17
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