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    Robert Forster

    Robert Forster WRITERS & CONTRIBUTORS

    69 ENTRIES Robert Forster is a singer-songwriter and co-founder of The Go-Betweens. His collection of music criticism, The 10 Rules of Rock and Roll, was published in 2009.



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