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Hugh Omar Benjamin Ezekiel Laurie was born albino, on an unkown date, to poor sharecroppers, literally on the banks of the Mississippi River, just outside the hamlet of Oxford, Arkansas. In an accident that was to foreshadow the misfortune he suffered throughout his life, minutes after leaving the womb he tumbled into the river and was washed downriver. He managed to free himself from the rapids by clinging onto a stray branch, finding himself in the village of Eatin', Mississippi. Here the infant was brought up by a she-wolf until he was discovered by an aged minstrel show performer, Stephen "Big Nose" Fry, who taught young Hugh all he knew on the guitar: the chords G and C. This was not enough to play the blues, but thankfully Hugh was a natural on the instrument and by the age of 5 had

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rdfs:comment	Hugh Omar Benjamin Ezekiel Laurie was born albino, on an unkown date, to poor sharecroppers, literally on the banks of the Mississippi River, just outside the hamlet of Oxford, Arkansas. In an accident that was to foreshadow the misfortune he suffered throughout his life, minutes after leaving the womb he tumbled into the river and was washed downriver. He managed to free himself from the rapids by clinging onto a stray branch, finding himself in the village of Eatin', Mississippi. Here the infant was brought up by a she-wolf until he was discovered by an aged minstrel show performer, Stephen "Big Nose" Fry, who taught young Hugh all he knew on the guitar: the chords G and C. This was not enough to play the blues, but thankfully Hugh was a natural on the instrument and by the age of 5 had
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abstract	Hugh Omar Benjamin Ezekiel Laurie was born albino, on an unkown date, to poor sharecroppers, literally on the banks of the Mississippi River, just outside the hamlet of Oxford, Arkansas. In an accident that was to foreshadow the misfortune he suffered throughout his life, minutes after leaving the womb he tumbled into the river and was washed downriver. He managed to free himself from the rapids by clinging onto a stray branch, finding himself in the village of Eatin', Mississippi. Here the infant was brought up by a she-wolf until he was discovered by an aged minstrel show performer, Stephen "Big Nose" Fry, who taught young Hugh all he knew on the guitar: the chords G and C. This was not enough to play the blues, but thankfully Hugh was a natural on the instrument and by the age of 5 had laid the foundations for the unique style that was to make him semi-famous. Although he never learnt to read, Hugh was given basic schooling in classical civilisation, rugger and the literature of Oscar Wilde by his adoptive father. Soon Hugh began to play in juke joints in the Eatin' area, where he gained the name Whinin' Hugh Jr., a name which he was keen to shake off later in life. Hugh was never paid for his performances, but he didn't care, finding the joy of making music a sufficient reward. He was often paid to leave the joints anyway. Hugh was also determined to learn the piano, but since he had no money to buy one he realised he would have to make his own. He whittled the instrument's body out of a willow tree and the keys from the ivory tusks of a bison he killed. Finding few fans for his radical piano style, Hugh would sit by the banks of the river and play with the accompaniment of a lonesome whippoorwill, watched proudly by Fry (who, incidentally, was deaf from a young age). It was in 1978 that a drunken Hugh Laurie, lost at a crossroads, infamously traded his soul with the Devil in exchange for directions home.

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