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I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

Don McLean

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Don McLean
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: October 2
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New Rochelle
New York
Donald McLean III
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