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I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.

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