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Iggy Pop: The Madcap Laughs Again

Mat Snow, Q, September 1988

Iggy Pop "The Prophet Of Punk" — has ricocheted through some combustible times. There were fleeting stabs at bona fide rock celebrity, then prolonged bouts of drug-fuelled despair, sudden upswings, further disgraceful slumps... "I'm not a joke," he tells Mat Snow. "I want some dignity."

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