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Swedish heavy metal man: 'I'm still addicted'
The Local (Sweden) ^ | January 11, 2013

Posted on 01/15/2013 7:20:18 AM PST by ConservativeStatement

A Swede who gained worldwide fame for having his love of hard rock classified as a disability says he remains addicted to heavy metal music five years after being granted social security benefits for his affliction.

"I'm still very addicted," Roger Tullgren, 47, told The Local this week from his home in Hässleholm in southern Sweden.

"I listen to heavy metal music 24 hours a day."

(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.se ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: ailments; music; rockandroll; socialsecurity
So this is what Van Halen meant by "Somebody Get Me a Doctor." But we were also told "I Don't Need No Doctor" by various artists.
1 posted on 01/15/2013 7:20:23 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

I’m addicted as well.

Where my bennies at?


2 posted on 01/15/2013 7:27:56 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Many here are addicted to FreeRepublic. Disability, anyone?


3 posted on 01/15/2013 7:32:25 AM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Feed the addiction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RBSkq-_St8


4 posted on 01/15/2013 7:53:31 AM PST by BipolarBob (Happy Hunger Games! May the odds be ever in your favor.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

metal health drove him mad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaivSqwgAvk


5 posted on 01/15/2013 8:33:24 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: ConservativeStatement
But we were also told "I Don't Need No Doctor" by various artists.

I simply love this cover of the Humble Pie rendition by Beth Hart. That girl can rock.

6 posted on 01/15/2013 10:53:24 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Humans have eliminated natural selection. Morons are now a protected species. They breed and vote.)
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7 posted on 01/15/2013 12:21:46 PM PST by 09Patriot (your freedom to be you, includes my freedom to be from you.--Wilkow)
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Here's something to feed the addiction:

Space Guitar--Young John Watson (1954)

8 posted on 01/15/2013 5:53:56 PM PST by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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