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Iggy Pop: Iggy Said It, Iggy Had The Power, Iggy Had The Disease

Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 12 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 in Detroit the night before the David Bowie Station To Station tour hit the Motor-City and the lines were buzzing with hot rumours 'bout the Pop coming in with the Thin White Duke – the two apparently being thick as thieves once more – well, you could hang five on the merest taste of a rumour of Iggy being close at hand and I'd be moving in hot to trot for a rendezvous.

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