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Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.

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Robert Smith
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 21
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Brooklyn
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Robert James Smith
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