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The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.'

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