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Most of the time when we do a tune, Bad Blake, it's a tune no one's heard of to begin with.

George Thorogood

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George Thorogood
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: February 24
Baseball Player
Guitarist
Singer
Vocalist
Wilmington
Delaware
George Lawrence Thorogood
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As you get older the odds are against you that you are still going to be on the planet.
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Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.
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Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working you know what I'm saying?
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On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found.
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I make a rich woman beg, I'll make a good woman steal. I'll make an old woman blush, and make a young woman squeal.
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Pain I keep to myself my music is for entertainment purposes and I always have that in mind.
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Everybody funny, now you funny too.
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They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.
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I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.
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All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.
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There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.
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Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why.
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Radio is paid by advertising. They decide what songs to play that'll keep people listening. And that's what promoters and the Classic Rock people do.
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