Quote #22

Yes I can, mate, I can take your awful CD out of the machine & throw it as far away from this studio as is humanly possible.' (Responding to the title of a Chris Isaak single, Can't Do A Thing To Stop Me, he was required to play when standing in for a sick colleague in 1993.)

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