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I figured if you want to get to where John Hammond is or Billy Gibbons is or Peter Wolf is, you have to start listening to the same stuff they did, and learn from that, and that's what I did.
George Thorogood
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George Thorogood
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: February 24
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Wilmington
Delaware
George Lawrence Thorogood
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I'm a [Bob] Dylan freak, like everybody else.
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When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time. It is psychological. That's okay - I'm down with that.
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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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I swore under oath with the government not to give the whereabouts of my location.
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Everybody funny, now you funny too.
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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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Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working you know what I'm saying?
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I hate categories. Hank Williams is a great artist, period. Bob Dylan is a great artist, so is Marty Robbins. They just classify these people and put them in categories so they can sell the thing easier.
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My father had a couple of Mitch Miller records and a Spike Jones record, and that was it. My older brother had two or three Elvis Presley singles, and that was about it. The rest of it I did on my own.
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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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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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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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