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Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.
Robert Wyatt
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Robert Wyatt
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 28
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Ellidge Wyatt
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The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are already powerful and keeping everyone else back is a recipe for endless misery and conflict.
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People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.
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