His drug habit varied in intensity during this time, but persisted. Returning to the Rolls, he said, What I like about it is, it makes me feel like everythings O.K. Though he lives with his wife, Nina Alu, a former flight attendant, in Coconut Grove, an upscale neighborhood opposite Key Biscayne, he spends a few afternoons or evenings a week at a small bungalow that he owns north of Miami, in El Portal. Pop yowled through a fierce, rumbling version of TV Eye, it was more than clear that in the 33 years since the song was recorded, the genre has largely been variations on a theme. Basically, everybody's dead except Iggy and I. He took all the monotony and frustration and made it great.. He has a son, Eric Benson, born in 1970 from a relationship with Paulette Benson. Bowie re-recorded and performed many of Pop's songs throughout his career. Dave Alexander had been fired in 1970, for showing up too drunk to perform. It was the first time I ever saw someone dance and interpret the music to the degree he was able to, live onstage. He added, The music wasnt pop, it wasnt rock, it was something else. Eric was brought up by his mother, in California, and lives in Berlin now.) Pop also voiced a cameo in the American Dad! He got the idea to do it after an advertising agency asked him to read the poem for a commercial voice-over. Then he bought an electric-blue 1984 Ferrari 308 GTS, which he described as a motorcycle with a top on it. That one caught fire every once in a while. I hit my cuestheres certain blocking to remember, like in a play. He refers to the property as his spirit house, and he does the bulk of his thinking and writing there. His voice sounds rich and heavy, with a depth and fragility reminiscent of Jacques Brels. Afterward, they moved into an apartment on a tree-lined street in West Berlin. We spent the next two days cruising around like this. Its stripped-back, guitar-based sound leaned further towards the sound of the Stooges than any of his solo albums to date. By the time that they made Raw Power, James Williamson was playing lead guitar and Ron Asheton was on bass, and they had rebranded themselves as Iggy and the Stooges. There wasnt much that happened that wasnt conceived of as a performance, he said. Pop is in the middle, wearing a T.Rex shirt and holding a pack of Lucky Strikes between his teeth. In 2009, James Williamson rejoined the band after 29 years. Pop wrote the lyrics. I had crashed that party, innocently, and there I was, so uncool that I was grinning, Pop said. Loves absent, he sings. He took all the monotony and frustration and made it great. In the eighties and nineties, young and discordant indie-rock bands were equally shaped by the Stooges music. From afar, Pop resembles a bronze statuette. Pop had "about two hours of a strong emotional reaction" to the news.[55]. Iggy Pop turned 73 on Tuesday and he celebrated by unearthing a cover of the Sly and the Family Stone classic "Family Affair" that he recorded with funk icon Bootsy Collins back in 1985. 8 in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV. Pop released Lust for Life, co-produced by Bowie, in August of that year. The film was to be directed by Nick Gomez and Elijah Wood was to play Pop.[113][114][115]. Pop has appeared in many television series, including Tales from the Crypt, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, where he played Nona's dad in the second and third season, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, in which he played Yelgrun in the episode "The Magnificent Ferengi". The Prime Movers gave him the nickname "Iggy" for having played in The Iguanas. Josh Homme, the front man of Queens of the Stone Age, co-wrote and produced Pops most recent album, Post Pop Depression, from 2016; it was Pops first record ever to chart in the Top Twenty in the United States. (In 1969, when Pop was twenty-one and living in Ann Arbor, he had a son, Eric, with Paulette Benson. Eventually, Pop got bored doing British Invasion covers. And the first two Stooges albums are the theme.. And the kids were jumping and having so much fun. "[17] He was inducted as part of the Stooges into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. He and his assistant, Spencer, planted most of the trees on the property: Dade County pines, royal palms, coconut palms. With Williamson signed on as guitarist, the search began for a rhythm section. In 2021 Pop appeared with Nico Rosberg - 2016 Formula One champion - in a video advert for the German State Railways' (Deutsche Bahn) high speed train services. Pop guested on Profanation, the new album by the Bill Laswell-helmed group Praxis, which was released on January 1, 2008. He is one of the bodyguards, along with Klaus Nomi, of David Bowie, who is "The Sovereign" of the Guild of Calamitous Intent. It was way more than a band. He was talking about things as they are, rather than in pop conventions, Hell said. He is not currently considering retirement: I always wonder, if I stopped doing music, would I really start drinking tea instead of coffee, and, you know, brush my teeth more, and all that? However, he did so on three occasions at a concert in Madrid, Spain on April 30, 2010,[62] and did similarly at London's Hammersmith Apollo on May 2, 2010. Also in 1992, he collaborated with the New York City band White Zombie. [94] Pop announced a tour to promote the album. Pop has some unclear super-powers, which he uses when he and Nomi turn against Bowie. Maybe you find one little thing that you can improve, but youre not desperate about it. In the same year, Pop sang a leading role in the John Moran opera The Manson Family. A member of the audience got to do the countdown for the new year with Pop as part of a competition to guess Pop's new year's resolution (it was "To do nothing and make a lot of money!"). In 1976, a recording of the show was released, titled Metallic K.O. In 1977, Lester Bangs wrote about the record for the Village Voice: Nobody gets killed, but Metallic K.O. is the only rock album I know where you can actually hear hurled beer bottles breaking against guitar strings., Pop was strung out. James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer, musician, radio broadcaster, songwriter and actor. Iggy Pop was born James Osterberg, Jr., in 1947, and brought up in Ypsilanti, about forty miles west of Detroit. Pop and the Stooges played at Bam Margera's wedding and Pop appeared on the single "Punkrocker" with the Teddybears in a Cadillac television commercial. [18], James Newell Osterberg Jr. was born in Muskegon, Michigan, on April 21, 1947, the son of Louella (ne Christensen; 19171996)[19] and James Newell Osterberg Sr. (19212007),[19] a former high school English teacher and baseball coach at Fordson High School in Dearborn, Michigan. Pop took down the top, and turned the air-conditioning to high. [54], On December 15, 2009, it was announced that the Stooges would be inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 15, 2010. They have toured regularly since 2004. LSD wasnt criminalized in the United States until the end of 1968, and drugs more generally were not particularly difficult to come by on campus. Lyrically, it is about the COVID-19 pandemic. After a March 2010 stage diving accident, Pop claimed he would no longer stage dive. [18] In April 2020, he released an alternate mix of his "China Girl", as part of a seven-disc deluxe box set, due to feature expanded remastered versions of The Idiot and Lust for Life (Iggy Pop album)|Lust for Life. Pop was antagonizing the room, and being pelted with beer, whiskey bottles, bras, and shoes. The Stooges' last show in 1974 ended in a fight between the band and a group of bikers, documented on the album Metallic K.O. Bowie is gone. Not in a vague, something-explosive-is-starting-here way but in a spilled-blood way. He's really pissing people off and he's lurching around making these guys angry." Yes, in places it sounds more like Bowie than Iggy . Im a little high, but not dizzy, and my voice has widened. [101], Pop hosts a weekly radio show and podcast titled "Iggy Confidential" on BBC 6 Music. Thats lonely. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories, In late July, in a brief window between professional appointments, Iggy Pop drove to the mouth of Biscayne Bay, so that he could bob in its tropical waters. He was inducted as part of the Stooges into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 15, 2010. Ron Richardson, a friend of Ron Ashetons who later became the Stooges first manager, was involved in psychedelics experiments at the University of Michigan, and the band often partook of his supplies. Meiert Avis recorded Sakamoto while at work on the score for The Last Emperor in London. [21] The family lived in a trailer park in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The stage was tiny and it was really low. The footwork, the tongue-in-cheek humor. Meanwhile, he told me, Charlotte Moorman did this thing where she was nakedI dont think she was really naked, maybe she was toplessand played the cello. There are elements of both traditions in Pops music: longing, rage, depravity, dissonance, showmanship, charisma, a little bit of old-fashioned song and dance. In 2012, Pop was voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame. Iggy's phenomenal cover of this Sly & the Family Stone classic. He played James Mecklenberg, Nona Mecklenberg's father. Thomas wrote the poem in 1947, when he was thirty-three; he died six years later. Throughout his career, he is well known for his outrageous and unpredictable stage antics, poetic lyrics and distinctive voice. I was expecting a band. He is an only child, and was brought up by his mother, Louella, who worked for Bendix, a manufacturer of automobile and airplane parts, and his father, James, who taught English at Fordson High School, in Dearborn. Simple is not easy. The single was a Top 10 hit in the UK and was successful around the world, especially in Australia, where it has been used since 1987 as the theme music for the ABC's late-night music video show Rage. The Stooges, which was produced by John Cale, of the Velvet Underground, is the band at its most economic. Photograph by Ryan McGinley for The New Yorker. In 1995, he had bought what he described as a very seedy condo in Miami, and he has had a home in the city ever since. The bands final performance of the nineteen-seventies was at the Michigan Palace, in Detroit, in 1974. [37] While in Australia, Pop was also the guest on a live late-night commercial TV interview show on the Ten Network. I had a date with a girl who became my wife, and I took her somewhere nice, and on the way home she said, I think the cars on fire!. I tried to build myself back up from twenty years in harnessNew York City, the modern American record industry, gruelling economy touring. He was raised by supportive parents who encouraged him to explore his interests. So one morning I was up early and she was thereit was just her and me, and I said, Would you take my picture?. The other half of it was that I thought, "If they've got a hit record out and they can get away with this, then I have no fucking excuse not to get out on stage with my band." People think hes this wild, shirtless, Dionysian man, running around the stage like a pony on amphetamines, and they overlook the incredible depth that he has, and his interest in history and art, Jarmusch said. 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Bowie is gone. "The big event of the week was Thursday night. Drug abuse stalled Pop's career again for several years. His father's name is James Newell Osterberg Sr., and his mother is Louella Christensen. It was a work of art. Stories about Pops misbehavior are lewd, captivating, and plentiful. In 1985, Pop recorded some demos with Jones. Atlantic Records and Andrew Watt's Gold Tooth Records have launched a joint venture with Iggy Pop as their first signing; his first single under the label, ' frenzy', is due on October 28. Mixed at Orange Music Studio, West Orange, NJ Produced & Mixed by Bill Laswell Coordination: Yoko Yamabe Mastered by Mickal Rangeard QDS Mastering, Paris. and Grand Theft Auto IV,[56] which also included the Stooges song "I Wanna Be Your Dog" (though the game's manual credited Iggy Pop as the artist). They also began work on a new album, The Weirdness, which was recorded by Steve Albini and released in March 2007. [33] Pop's career received a boost from his relationship with Bowie when Bowie decided in 1972 to produce an album with him in England. His father was a former high school English teacher and baseball coach at Fordson High School. (Pop was borrowed from an acquaintance named Jimmy Popp. In August 2006, Pop and the Stooges performed at the Lowlands pop festival in the Netherlands, Hodokvas in Slovakia and in the Sziget Festival in Budapest. He is an only child, and was brought up by his mother, Louella, who worked for . I didnt really use drugs for the next couple of years, except for the normal amounts of coke that everybody did at that time. But he credits his addictionsheroin, cocaine, pills, psychedelics, boozewith permitting him, for a time, to be stranger and more flamboyant onstage. Yet if you can shake off its familiarity the central ideathat a person should live vigorously, unapologeticallyremains germane. I didnt have his riffage, but I could write something simple, Pop said. So I was unhappy in general and vice versa". Pop's 2003 album Skull Ring featured collaborators Sum 41, Green Day, Peaches, and The Trolls, as well as Ron and Scott Asheton, reuniting the three surviving founding members of the Stooges for the first time since 1974. Additionally, a portion of the music video for Pop's "Butt Town" was featured on an episode of Beavis and Butthead. https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iggy_Pop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iggy_Pop [10] Morrison's extreme behavior, while performing in a popular band, inspired the young Pop to push the boundaries of stage performance. Now, Pop told me, his skeleton is the weak area. Occasionally, he uses a cane. Photograph: Tom Copi 'Iggy dived. In January 2015, it was announced that Pop contributed the theme song to Alex Cox's film Bill, the Galactic Hero. The support from Bowie enabled Pop to take a three-year break, during which he overcame his resurgent heroin addiction and took acting classes. The song also plays over the end credits of the film, with a compilation of clips from the A Nightmare on Elm Street series running alongside the end credits. He has been married three times: to Wendy Weissberg (for several weeks in 1968, the marriage was annulled shortly thereafter), to Suchi Asano (1984 to 1999), and most recently, to his longtime partner Nina Alu. In 2005, Pop appeared, along with Madonna, Little Richard, Bootsy Collins, and The Roots' Questlove, in an American TV commercial for the Motorola ROKR phone. And how would I feel if I was going to die tomorrow, and I looked at what I was doing with my life today? He added, My only thing is, to spite those who dont like me, I want to make eighty.. Additional inspiration was drawn from Jean Baudrillard, Edvard Munch's 1894 painting Puberty, and Roland Barthes Death of the Author. Pop sang on the 1999 Death in Vegas UK Top-10 single Aisha. While in Chicago, he played drums in blues clubs, helped by Sam Lay (formerly of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band) who shared his connections with Pop. [92] The album was produced by Andrew Watt. Iggy Pop is celebrating his 73rd birthday today (21) by offering fans a free download of his 1980s cover of Sly & The Family Stone's 'Family Affair.'. Look Away, a documentary about sexual abuse in the rock music industry, is named after an Iggy Pop song about Starr. Pops selections that morning included songs from contemporary acts such as FKA Twigs, Bill Callahan, Cate Le Bon, and Tyler, the Creator, along with Hot Chile, a single that James Brown and his band released in 1960, using the pseudonym Nat Kendrick and the Swans. [64] In June 2010, Pop appeared at Yonge and Dundas Square in Toronto with the reformed Stooges on the NXNE main stage. Hes a real Midwestern gentleman, no matter that wildness that he celebrates, the filmmaker Jim Jarmusch told me. If he is touring, his preshow ritual takes eight or nine hours. At the time, this seemed like a dicey ideamost of these guys were in their fifties, and so much of the Stooges power had to do with a kind of lunatic vitalitybut somehow the band sounded as exhilarating as it did in 1969. He enrolled at the University of Michigan, and, soon after, he left the Iguanas for a blues band called the Prime Movers. Pop played a Vorta in an episode based upon the film The Magnificent Seven, titled "The Magnificent Ferengi". In 2017, Pop composed and performed vocals on the Oneohtrix Point Never song "The Pure and the Damned" on the soundtrack for the crime film Good Time. In September, Pop will release Free, his eighteenth solo album. [9][10] Pop, who traditionally (but not exclusively) performs bare-chested, also performed such stage theatrics as rolling around in broken glass and exposing himself to the crowd.[10]. Also in 1990, Pop sang the role of "The Prosecutor" for the POINT Music/Philips Classics recording (released in 1992) of composer John Moran's multimedia opera[45] The Manson Family. "I . [39] At first, I resistedIm not in junior high, he said. [38] Williamson left the project. Husband of Private He co-produced his 1999 album Avenue B with Don Was, releasing the single "Corruption". James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally by his stage name Iggy Pop, and designated the "Godfather of Punk," is an American singer, songwriter, musician, producer and actor. Youve got to fill out this form, and talk about this, and come down, and get manhandled and assaulted, and Whats your job? and Who employs you? He prefers to buy his cars used. Thomas wrote lyrics for half of the tracks on Free, including Dirty Sanchez, a lewd, tense meditation on contemporary sexuality that includes the lines Just because I like big tits/Doesnt mean I like big dicks. I was thinking, How do I explain to this guyThomasthat this is career suicide? Pop told me. Pop's song "China Girl" became more widely known when it was re-recorded by co-writer Bowie, who released it as the second single from his most commercially successful album, Let's Dance (1983). Iggy Pop Josh Homme on Iggy Pop: 'Lemmy is gone. Iggy Pop attended junior high in Ann Arbor, alongside wealthy children from powerful families, such as the son of the President of the Ford Motor Company. He began playing drums in fifth grade. EPs [ edit] Live albums [ edit] Compilation albums [ edit] Box sets [ edit] Singles [ edit] Anyone who was still alive and able to crawl to the sofa would watch Starsky & Hutch. So you start to think, Well, O.K., what are my probabilities? Shaw said the four wore matching rings depicting a skull, and all but Pop received a similar skull-and-crossbones tattoo.[130]. Iggy PopLust For Life 1977 Thousand Mile, Inc., under exclusive license to Virgin RecordsReleased on: . Youd see the paint bubble first, he said. On Bandcamp, Iggy has dropped a cover of "Family Affair," Sly & The Family Stone's psychedelic soul-funk classic. [84] In December, Pop featured on a rework of Elvis Costello's song "No Flag" from Costello's 2020 album Hey Clockface. Pop and Ron Asheton wrote most of the tracks. I have taken pains to diversify outside of the music industry., In 2003, the Stooges reunited, with Ron Asheton on guitar and Mike Watt, of the Minutemen, on bass. Connect to the World Family Tree to find out, https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/iggy-pops-trail-of-destruction-20031211, Oct 4 2004 - Miami, Miami-Dade, Florida, United States, Apr 1 1950 - Cinely, Pittsfield Township, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States, Muskegon, Muskegon County, Michigan, United States, singer, songwriter, musician, producer and actor. The song has also been used in TV commercials for Royal Caribbean and as the theme music to The Jim Rome Show, a nationally syndicated American sports talk show. Other influences on Pop's vocals and persona were Mick Jagger and James Brown. The same year he appeared on Hashisheen, The End of Law, a collaborative effort by Bill Laswell, reading on the tracks The Western Lands and A Quick Trip to Alamut. The Polar Music Prize 2022 is awarded to American rock icon James Newell Osterberg, better known as Iggy Pop. I allowed the humor to come in where a lot of people wouldnt have, he said. In January 2020, Pop received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Scott died the same way, in 2014. After he moved to Miami, he started swimming every day. On Tonight in 1984, Bowie recorded five more of their co-written songs (2 from Lust for Life, 1 from New Values, and 2 new songs), assuring Pop financial security, at least for the short term. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Bowie also played keyboards in Pop's live performances, some of which are featured on the album TV Eye Live in 1978. With the Stooges, he was featured in an episode of MTV's Bam's Unholy Union as the main band performing at Bam Margera's wedding. B. Smith singing No More Good Time in the World for Me, Robert Johnson worrying over the hellhound on his trail. And there was a beach photographer who came every day with her giant camera, and she was photographing peoples kids. On October 28, 2016, Pop released the double live album Post Iggy Pop Depression: Live At The Royal Albert Hall on Eagle Rock Entertainment (on DVD+2CD and digital formats). He played these demos for Bowie, who was sufficiently impressed to offer to produce an album for Pop: 1986's new wave-influenced Blah-Blah-Blah, featuring the single In 1970, in Cincinnati, he got his hands on a jar of peanut butter, smeared it all over himself, and began chucking gobs of it at the crowd. Pop appears as a character in the Adult Swim animated comedy/adventure series The Venture Bros.. This culminated in their evacuation from the master bedroom in the trailer, because that was the only room big enough for my drum kit. When the traffic necessitated quick braking, he shot his arm in front of my chest. 191 in Rolling Stone's '500 Greatest Albums of All Time' in 2003. Three hours before, I lie down on the floor and do something called wu chi breathing, where I breathe very deep into my gut for almost a half hour. The P.A. That show was a big, big, big influence on me. The center wont hold the ends., He doesnt want to re-tread ground that hes covered before, Wayne Kramer, the guitarist and co-founder of the Detroit rock band the MC5, told me. The Stooges played their first public show at Detroits Grande Ballroom, in March, 1968. Chicago blues is rowdy and licentious, but it carries some of the lonesomeness of the genres country forebears: J. In downtown New York, in the mid-seventies, Hell developed a counterpart to the Detroit sound, performing with the punk bands Television and Richard Hell and the Voidoids. However, since neither Pop nor Williamson were satisfied with any players in England, they decided to re-unite the Stooges. But he eventually decided that he liked it, re-recorded the vocal, and asked Leron Thomas and Noveller to improvise around it. [26], Osterberg eventually dropped out of the University of Michigan[27] and moved to Chicago to learn more about blues. was cranked to inhumane levels. You have the two pillars of the new alt industry there, and in the middle you have this sort of shaky proposition., Some of Pops most interesting and idiosyncratic work has been made in the past decade, including two recordsPrliminaires, from 2009, and Aprs, from 2012inspired by Dixieland jazz, French chanson, mid-century American standards, and the books of Michel Houellebecq, Pops favorite living novelist. Bowie released Low in January, 1977, the first album in his celebrated Berlin trilogy. Iggy's maternal grandparents were also both of part Swedish heritage. Pop sang four of the songs: In the Deathcar, TV Screen, Get the Money, and This is a Film. Though it seems clear that Pop was working, in part, by instinct, he was also being intentional. Meanwhile, I was crazy as a loon myself.. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life [RCA, 1977] There's the eerie Neighborhood Threat, the Stones-y freak anthem Some Weird Sin, the slinky Fall In Love With Me, and the rollicking gypsy swing of The Passenger, to say nothing of Turn Blue, a seven-minute nervous breakdown disguised as white-boy soul. A critic from the Guardian called the performance superhuman.. And, you know, theres always my Apple stock, he said, and laughed. [14] Pop was unable to control his drug use and checked himself into a mental institution, the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, to try to clean up. Geni requires JavaScript! Groups like the . Pop opened his acceptance speech by blasting two middle fingers at the crowd, and then reading from a stack of index cards, declaring who and what he believed was cool: his wife, his bandmates. On June 22, 2016, Stooges guitarist James Williamson made an official statement saying that the Stooges were no more: The Stooges is over. He climbed into my front seat, and politely said nothing about the fact that my cell phone had automatically synched to the cars stereo, and was now blasting Pump Up the Volume.. People were rushing the stage and Morrison's going "Fuck you. One shoe had been customized with a platform sole, to correct for an inch-and-a-half difference in the length of his legs, a condition he attributes to arthritis combined with an old football injury. 18: Real Wild Child. This is a favorite picture, he said. Earlier in the day, at a small studio in Coral Gables, Pop had recorded two episodes of Iggy Confidential, the BBC Radio 6 music program he began hosting in 2015, after finding that he enjoyed the experience of acting, as he put it, as a kind of atmospheric bartender. His broadcasting voice is deep, slow, and pleasantly wobbly. This box set contains the Prliminaires album, a collector "Les Feuilles Mortes" b/w "King of the Dogs" 7inch, the cover of which is Pop's portrait by Marjane Satrapi, and a 38-page booklet of drawings also by Marjane Satrapi. In conversation, he is nearly guileless, and he listens intently and carefully. [11][12] Though his popularity has fluctuated, many of Pop's songs have become well known, including "Search and Destroy" and "I Wanna Be Your Dog" by the Stooges, and his solo hits "Lust for Life", "The Passenger" and "Real Wild Child (Wild One)". Im a little gnarly. [106] Also during 2016, Jim Jarmusch directed Gimme Danger, a documentary movie about the band. Pop seemed to regard violence as a kind of absolution. The seeds of Pop's stage persona were sown when he saw the Doors perform in 1967 at the University of Michigan and was amazed by the stage antics and antagonism displayed by singer Jim Morrison. Its gotta be fucking good, he said. [86] That year, he also collaborated with Morrissey on his upcoming album Bonfire of Teenangers. In a 1995 interview with Bust, he relates: And the other thing was we went to New York. Most of Pops bandmates were as stoned and as disobedient as he was. [117], The project appears to have been shelved.[118]. I think theres some sort of betting pool out there on when Im gonna croak, he said. 75 on the Billboard 200 chart. [155], "Looking remarkably healthy for a man who nurtured a world-class drug habit for many years, the "Godfather of Punk" Iggy Pop is set to close the Other Stage on Saturday night." He reminds me a little of Bruno Mars and Sal Mineo. Between shows, Pop emerged from the cool, dark booth, shirtless and looking for sunshine. [66] He is also featured on Kesha's song "Dirty Love" on her second album Warrior. 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