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I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!

Ken Hensley

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Ken Hensley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1945
Born: August 24
Died: 2020
Died: November 4
Composer
Guitarist
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Lyricist
Multi-Instrumentalist
Pianist
Singer-Songwriter
Kenneth William David Hensley
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