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Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.

Clarence Clemons

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Clarence Clemons
Age: 69 †
Born: 1942
Born: January 11
Died: 2011
Died: June 18
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Saxophonist
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