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What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.

Ken Livingstone

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Ken Livingstone
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 17
Autobiographer
Broadcaster
Former Mayor Of London
Politician
Kenneth Robert Livingstone
Kenneth Robert Ken Livingstone
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