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I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.

Robyn Hitchcock

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Robyn Hitchcock
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 3
Film Actor
Guitarist
Recording Artist
Singer-Songwriter
London
England
Robyn Rowan Hitchcock
Extraordinary
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People

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I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other.
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