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Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.
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Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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There's quite a few people getting into that - new acts coming along that are using a lot of stuff that happened in the 50s and 60s. They're completely ignoring the 70s which is kind of a turn on because to me nothing has really gone down in the 70s.
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See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.
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If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
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I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.
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In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think that this particular song sounds like Jo Blow. Or like a Bo Diddley record that he heard six years ago. But the artist who made the record may never have even heard the Bo Diddley song. We all respond differently.
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Britain is not the same anymore of course. It's never the same.
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If you never hear from me that just means I would rather not.
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