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It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable...Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass...Music should never be harmless.

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Robbie Robertson
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: July 5
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City of Toronto
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