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There was a clown that tried to eat me as a boy, in my nightmares. Years later I found a clown for booking online who resembled him named Patches. Needless to say, Patches is dead now.

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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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