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Goo Goo Dolls Finally Make a ‘Name’ for Themselves : Pop music: After a decade of touring, the group has a Top 10 hit in the folk-tinged ballad
Interview • November 18, 1995 • Los Angeles TimesBy RICHARD CROMELIN“You really question how you feel when you’re a teen-ager, and how intense every single move you make is,” says Johnny Rzeznik. “And then there’s the feeling you get when you’re 28, going, ‘My God, life is so different, I’m such a different person now than I was when I was 15.’“Almost everyone I know has to get up and do something that they’d rather not be doing every day. I really feel for them.”Rzeznik’s ability to snag that feeling and distill it into an aching, folk-tinged ballad called “Name” has transformed his band, the Goo Goo Dolls, from a long-term almost-there int
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