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The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.

David Coverdale

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David Coverdale
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 22
Guitarist
Singer
Songwriter
Saltburn
David Jack Coverdale
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