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When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

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Iggy Pop
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 21
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James Newell Osterberg
James Newell Osterberg Jr.
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