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You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.

John Lydon

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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
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