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'Weird Al's' Advice: Follow Your Muse To 'Grow Up'

Matthew Alfred Yankovic, better known as "Weird Al," has recorded 12 albums and won three Grammys. He once worked as an "accordion repo man," collecting rented accordions from children when they had stopped taking lessons at school.

February 27, 2011 In Grammy-award winning parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic's new children's book, When I Grow Up, Billy tells his teacher he wants to be a gorilla masseuse. When Yankovic himself was growing up, he wanted to be a writer for Mad magazine, he tells Liane Hansen on Weekend Edition Sunday.

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