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Black Flag's Henry Rollins on Aging Gracefully, Angrily

"If you don't laugh at getting older, all you can do is bemoan your aging carcass."
Rollins performs at Festival Supreme 2015 at The Shrine Auditorium on October 10, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.
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Henry Rollins, one of the greatest punk frontmen of all time, was infamous in the 1980s for beating the crap out of unruly fans at Black Flag shows. Now, at 56, Rollins said he’s feeling the wear of all those mosh pits on his body, and he can’t condone violence anymore.

“If you don’t laugh about getting older,” Rollins told , “all you can do is bemoan your own aging

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