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Friday, August 22, 2008, 12:15
The rock star checked in to the institution to kick his heroin habit in 1975.
And according to the Daily Mirror, the 61-year-old now apparently prefers to get his kicks from much softer substances: coffee and wine.
"I needed to get out of the culture," Iggy apparently said. "That wasn't going to happen in a drug facility. I knew I needed to get locked up away from my life and who I'd become."
Iggy, whose Lust for Life song featured on the soundtrack to the hit film Trainspotting, added: "I'm really partial to a good strong espresso in the morning and particular about red wine with my dinner."
The singer also revealed that he enjoys reading and soaking up the sun in his Florida home - a far cry from his days of rock and rock hedonism with his band Iggy And The Stooges in the late 1960s and 1970s.
The band haven't lost their old fire yet though. They appear in Get Loaded in the Park on London's Clapham Common on Sunday August 24.
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