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“I felt that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to do certain things, and one of them was to have a hit in my own right. At least one.” quote by Nick Lowe — Download Open image

“I felt that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to do certain things, and one of them was to have a hit in my own right. At least one.”

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