Iggy Pop And The Stooges: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Nick Hasted, Independent, The, 1 September 2005
SEEING THE STOOGES' name on the one-time Hammersmith Odeon's marquee, 30 years after they split, feels like an eerie warp in time. When the band made their London debut at another legendary Seventies venue, the Scala, in 1972, their singer Iggy Pop's violent glamour helped throw down seeds for British punk.
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