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If I weren't in Radiohead I'd be working at a grocery store, I'd be that creepy guy who lives in an efficiency apartment and collects salted, cured meats.

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Thom Yorke
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: October 7
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Thomas Edward Yorke
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