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People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world. Or the pop thing of: Hey, look at me, I'm sexy.

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Robert Wyatt
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 28
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