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I got into the music business thinking it was really radical, that it wasn't really a business at all, that it was a lot of people being artistic and creative. Not true, and it made me very depressed.

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