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I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar

Robert Wyatt

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Robert Wyatt
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 28
Composer
Drummer
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Ellidge Wyatt
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