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TIL Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers wrote the bass lines for Bust a Move and You Oughta Know and has written songs with Jewel, Warren Zevon, Jane's Addiction, Slash, Alice Cooper, Mars Volta, Patti Smith and Tom Waits

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