Iggy: Always a Sucker for a Good Party
Cynthia Rose, NME, 18 July 1981
IGGY POP, American entertainer and war poet, has just issued an eleventh album, and the day we met he'd weathered ten promotional interviews. "So much bullshit that my mouth is brown," opines IP as he is wont to refer to his album-siring self offstage over a double Pernod.
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