Mr. MARTIN TRIMBLE (Lead Singer, 22-20s): You know, I never listened to Zeppelin.

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"He never really listened to it before, but the other day I brought one home and I read it to him, " Hanks says.

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He never lost his accent, he never voted in an election or listened to American music, but he became a devout Yankees fan.

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With this year's album Country Club, the punk veteran dove headlong into a genre he'd always listened to, but was never quite ready to make his own.

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At Calais, he wandered for an hour through the deserted streets, and in the silent shops listened in vain to telephones that never rang.

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He worked at the public-radio station, and she listened to his jazz program, even though he never spoke during it, except to mention call letters and megahertz.

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"He just sat in Madrid, listened to well-known detractors of Rwanda and based on their falsehoods, which he never tried to cross-check, just went ahead and issued indictments, " a statement says.

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