"I had a terrible, rotten childhood... My father made away with himself when I was eleven. I had no guidance, and Mom was six feet tall, bucktoothed and very tough. I was mean and rebellious and had a terrible, bitter temper. I got a job as an auto mechanic, and I would have stayed in that narrow kind of life if I hadn't discovered art. Music changed me completely."
-- Howard Keel, 1919-2004


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