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Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

Eric Clapton

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Eric Clapton
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: March 30
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