Just remember what he told Ratso Sloman when the sidekick complained about leaving “Blind Willie McTell” (another would-be epitaph) out of Infidels 25 years ago:
“Aw, Ratso, don't get so excited... It’s just an album. I’ve made thirty of them.”
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