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I guess I am narcisstic, but only in the sense that I am brilliant and tortured as well

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Thom Yorke
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: October 7
Composer
Ecologist
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Thomas Edward Yorke
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