Iggy Pop, Punk and the Vietnam War

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Above Photo: A Search and Destroy raid on a Vietnamese hamlet

Since the mid-1970s I have been a massive Iggy Pop fan, and the only time I saw him, at Eric's Club in Liverpool in 1979, I managed to come away with a haul of swag including silk buttons he'd ripped off his shirt when he came onstage, plectrums dropped by the guitarists and the set list I took off one of the PA monitors, which I still possess today.

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What fascinates me about Iggy, as I shall call him, is that he has been in business since the time of the Vietnam War and he's still going strong, spann

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ing three generations - those who fought in the war, those who were too young and those who weren't even born when the war finally ended.

His album Raw Power contained a track called Search and Destroy, which he named after he saw an article in Time about such operations during the Vietnam War. This is it:

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