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When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty? I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap.

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Nick Lowe
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: March 24
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Nicholas Drain Lowe
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