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Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, April 1977
IT'S TWO O'CLOCK in the morning and I'm playing The Idiot for the fifth time running. Can't stop, it's so compelling...but very VERY strange. ...
Iggy Pop: Roseland, New York, NY
Live Review by Carol Cooper, Newsday, April 1996
In 1967, when The Doors released their first LP, a young ex-drummer named James Osterberg formed the Psychedelic Stooges to voice the primal urges of ...
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Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, June 1999
Barney Hoskyns talks to Iggy Pop, New York NY, 24 June 1999 File format: MP3 ; File size: 20.9mb; Interview length: 45 minutes; Sound quality: ***
Interview by Chris Roberts, Rock's Backpages Audio, August 1999
Iggy ruminates on growing old, marriage and divorce, and the various aspects of his life that informed his album Avenue B
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 52.9mb, total interview length: 57' 23" sound quality: ***
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Iggy & The Stooges: Kingsound (King's Cross Cinema), London
Live Review by Rosalind Russell, Disc and Music Echo, July 1972
IGGY AND the Stooges made their first performance in over a year on Saturday night, Sunday morning. Despite the event happening in the dead of ...
Profile by Nick Kent, NME, July 1972
For those who think Bowie a trifle lame... ...
Iggy & The Stooges: Raw Power (Columbia)
Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, March 1973
Iggy in Exile: Love in the Fire Zone ...
Review by Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, May 1973
THE IG. Nobody does it better, nobody does it worse, nobody does it, period. Others tiptoe around the edges, make little running starts and half-hearted ...
Iggy and the Stooges: At the Whisky a Go Go, Hollywood
Live Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Phonograph Record, October 1973
The Stooges have made the Comeback of the Year, no doubt about it, and their energized stay at the Whisky sealed it. The night before ...
Iggy Pop: Iggy Breaks Out Of His Cage
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, October 1973
IGGY POP swam out to sea, his wiry frame floating over the waves of Manhattan Beach, his dyed blonde head bobbing along the ripples, his ...
Iggy Pop: The Mighty Pop vs. the Hand of Blight
Special Feature by Nick Kent, NME, May 1975
Never before told! The story of a brilliant monster called IGGY POP, whose life and countless near-demises have provided Rock with one of its most ...
Overview by Phast Phreddie Patterson, New York Rocker, February 1976
IN THE BEGINNING... ...
Bowie Now: New Songs for Day and Night
Report and Interview by Wesley Strick, Circus, February 1977
THESE ARE the facts:David Bowie's latest album, Low, is two-sided. Side One contains seven crypto-disco tracks, no track shorter than 1:42 or longer than 3:26. ...
Iggy Pop: Iggy Said It, Iggy Had The Power, Iggy Had The Disease
Comment by Nick Kent, NME, March 1977
THINKING BACK, IT WAS almost a year ago to this very day when I last ran into Iggy. An assignment had got me holed up ...
Iggy Pop: The Idiot (RCA Victor)
Review by Wesley Strick, Circus, May 1977
IN 1974, RAY Manzarek invited Iggy Pop to front for the Doors. It's said that Iggy dyed his hair jet black to suit the part. ...
Report and Interview by Wesley Strick, Circus, May 1977
The Return, In Relative Good Health, Of Rocks Ragged Edge ...
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, June 1977
LET'S SEE, 1977 minus 1973 is four; it's been four whole years since Iggy and the Stooges' milestone Raw Power was released. Four years can ...
Review by Max Bell, NME, August 1977
GOG AND MAGOG?! No, Dog And Maindog. A Pure Pop Person Pleads Sanity. MAX BELL Was At The Hearings. ...
Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, September 1977
WHILE countless young groups do weak imitations of the Ig of five years ago Jimmy Osterburg himself moves on at a rate of revitalised progress ...
Live Review by Lester Bangs, NME, November 1977
Iggy suffers metallic KO, Ramones rule OK? ...
Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, January 1978
SO, NO RAW POWER retreads – it's only possible to live that once – but afterburn: the Ig goes right TO THE EDGE; LOSES CONTRACT/band/sanity/life ...
Iggy Pop and James Williamson: Kill City (Radar Records)
Review by Nick Kent, NME, January 1978
WELL, IT'S finally out and yup, disregarding the shoddy cover, it's a great album. ...
James Williamson: Real Time Musician From Kill City
Interview by Jon Savage, Sounds, February 1978
A PHONE CONSERVATION with James Williamson at his present home in Claremont, half-an-hour outside Los Angeles. Mainly to talk about the newly released 1975 Pop/Williamson ...
Iggy Pop: Pure Pop……For Iggy People
Live Review by Ian Penman, NME, June 1978
Iggy Pop: Music Machine, London ...
Essay by Cynthia Rose, Harpers & Queen, 1979
Cynthia Rose looks at artist/musicians David Bowie, Brian Eno and Iggy Pop (touring Britain this month) and the risks they are taking with electronics, Expressionism ...
Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, March 1979
"I am totally into corruption." ...
Review by Paul Morley, NME, April 1979
WHAT WE have here is James Osterberg in control. What we have here is the cunning Osterberg using the sensual Iggy, isolating personal standards and ...
Iggy Pop: Metallic J.C.'s Consciousness-Raising Wrap Session
Report by Richard Riegel, Creem, May 1979
TURIN, ITALY – In a surprise announcement this week, it was revealed that the so-called "Shroud of Turin," long believed to be the cloth in ...
Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, November 1979
REEMERGENCE OF IGGY POP ...
Interview by Cynthia Rose, Viz, 1980
Some Facts About Madness, Rape, Zombies, And Other Intense Human Behaviour ...
The Discreet Charm of Iggy Pop
Interview by Roy Trakin, New York Rocker, January 1980
Mr. and Mrs. Osterberg's favorite (and only) son learns 'tis better to consume than to be consumed, or "They call me Mister Pop." ...
Iggy Pop/Psychedelic Furs: Friars, Aylesbury
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, February 1980
THREE BANDS shaped up as good value but that wasn't all. There was an unannounced surprise star guest – all the way from Vegas let's ...
Iggy Pop: I Can't Stand to be Alone
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, February 1980
TO OPEN A DOOR and find Iggy Pop behind it is like opening a well shaken-up can of lager unawares. ...
Iggy: Always a Sucker for a Good Party
Interview by Cynthia Rose, NME, 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 ...
Iggy Pop: Zombie Birdhouse (Animal Records/Chrysalis) ***
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, September 1982
IGGY POP is a man of honour. Not for him the Lou Reed path of self-mockery; the one time he tried it for money's sake ...
Interview by Glenn O'Brien, Interview, 1985
Iggy Pop is the greatest. He was metal before metal. He was punk before punk. He was and is poetry in motion. He's a wild ...
Review by Don Watson, NME, October 1986
"I'M A real wild one." Iggy Pop, 1986. ...
Iggy Pop: Iggy Stardust – His Lust For Life
Interview by Chris Roberts, Sounds, October 1986
"I think I am a little different upstairs, yeah. But so are a lot of people," admits the former King Stooge to one of his ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 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 ...
Iggy Pop: The Madcap Laughs Again
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, September 1988
Iggy Pop "The Prophet Of Punk" — has ricocheted through some combustible times. There were fleeting stabs at bona fide rock celebrity, then prolonged bouts ...
Reading '91: Reading, Writhing And Riffmatic
Live Review by Keith Cameron, NME, September 1991
FRIDAY: IT WAS obvious, really – he had to say it. Who better than His Supreme Iggyness Of Pop, the Godfather of (s)punk rock, to ...
Interview by Paul Gorman, Music Week, January 1996
IT’S BEEN SAID before but bears repeating once Iggy Pop is witnessed at the close quarters of his cramped bedroom in London’s Halcyon Hotel: If ...
Iggy And The Stooges: Raw Power
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, June 1997
LOOK OUT, honey, cos they're using technology. Or rather, remixer Iggy Pop is. ...
Iggy Pop: London, Shepherds Bush Empire
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, 1999
HE WALKS through the cones of striped, sick-white lights, shirt off, a graceful, sinewy man with an impossible six-pack and road-map veins. He sits down ...
Iggy Pop talks to Barney Hoskyns
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, August 1999
What impact did the breakup of your marriage have on Avenue B? Curiously, once my back was up against the wall and I was really ...
Iggy Pop: Message From Under The Rock
Interview by Edward Helmore, Interview, September 1999
IGGY POP could have become a sacred rock dinosaur, giving benedictions and receiving ring-kisses on the nostalgia circuit. Instead, he's still rattling the cage and ...
Review and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, October 1999
Named after the NY street where Iggy and the ex Mrs Pop lived. Ten songs and three spoken word pieces recorded in a former East ...
Iggy Pop: Coming Through Slaughter
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Wire, The, November 1999
Where lesser rock gods have become overweight and obsolete, Iggy Pop endures. In Miami, prompted by the bitter-sweet musings of his 13th album, he reflects ...
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 2001
THE ICON flexes his implausibly limber, scar-studded torso and un-focuses his piercing blue eyes for a few seconds as he casts his mind back over ...
Iggy Pop: The Importance of Being Iggy
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Rolling Stone, July 2001
JAMES NEWELL OSTERBERG, a.k.a. Iggy Pop, once billed himself as the "world's forgotten boy," but that is no longer the case. From fronting the proto-punk ...
The Stooges Deliver A Real Cool Time
Live Review by Edward Helmore, Independent, The, August 2003
The Stooges, Jones Beach Theatre, New York ...
Iggy Pop And The Stooges: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Independent, The, 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 ...
Where the Debris Meets the Sea: Iggy Pop and James Williamson in Kill City
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, eMusic.com, September 2006
IGGY POP remains rock’s ultimate protopunk – the "world’s forgotten boy" who took the menace of the MC5 and the demonic danger of the Rolling ...
The Stooges: Kill City Dreaming
Interview by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, October 2009
Iggy Pop and James Williamson talk Raw Power, their rift and reunion, Ron Asheton and the glory that (still) is Detroit ...
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