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Iggy Pop: Decline Of The Dork

Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 25 October 1986

BACK IN the bleak wastes of the early ‘70s – when, of course, things were really no more bleak than they are now – there was one crazed and chaotic cult figure who went further than all the other camp, glam-rock, heavy-metal poseurs simply because he made it look natural.

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