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Iggy Pop on the Stooges (1977)

Interview by Stuart Grundy, Rock's Backpages audio, March 1977

Iggy Pop looks back on the Stooges: on Ann Arbour and Detroit; putting the band together; not being part of the White Panther scene; James Osterberg v Iggy Stooge; the first album, 'Not Right', 'I Wanna Be Your Dog', and John Cale; his relationship with his audience; writing Fun House; being dropped by Elektra; reforming the Stooges in 1973 with James Williamson, and Raw Power; living in the UK, meeting Bowie and recording The Idiot.

File format: mp3; file size: 29.5meg, interview length: 30' 47" sound quality: ****

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The Stooges: The Pavilion, Flushing Meadow Park, Queens

Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 8 September 1969

Stooges, Rock Group, Prefers To Accent Roll – and Squirm ...

Doors' Soft Parade leads US underground LP releases

Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 13 September 1969

THE DOORS: The Soft Parade — 'Tell All The People'; 'Touch Me'; 'Shaman's Blues'; 'Do It'; 'Easy Ride'; 'Wild Child'; 'Runnin' Blue'; 'Wishful Sinful'; 'The ...

The Stooges: The Stooges (Elektra)

Review by Lenny Kaye, Fusion, 19 September 1969

I WAS ONCE thinking of doing a piece on Blue Cheer where I wanted to show, through all sorts of diagrams and convoluted logic, that ...

The Stooges: The Very New "Iggy" Approach To Rock Music

Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 21 September 1969

"On Saturday, Iggy appeared onstage wearing only sneakers and dungarees cut down to shorts. Iggy, who was a high school valedictorian back home, seeks to ...

Albums from Spooky Tooth and the Stooges

Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 7 December 1969

Spooky Tooth: Spooky Two (A&M SP 4194) This is quite representative of the latest albums by unfamiliar British rock groups (in which category Free, ...

Watch the Freak: Iggy Pop

Report by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 3 April 1970

IGGY POP – magnificent name, much better than Jim, which is really his name – is on national television. He is lead singer in a ...

The Incredible Story Of Iggy & The Stooges

Special Feature by Dave Marsh, Creem, May 1970

THIS IS A story about the Stooges. I've taken some time to check it out and it seems that there's really only one way to ...

The Ig Unbound: Some of the Real Truth About Iggy Stooge

Profile and Interview by John Mendelssohn, Entertainment World, 29 May 1970

FOR THIS ridiculously typical young swinger doing the whole, you know, number right there in the center of the Whisky dance-floor the last 45 minutes ...

Stooges Storm Sin City

Live Review by Anne Moore, Creem, July 1970

(While the Stooges were out on the West Coast to do their second album, they decided to play a couple of gigs. The first was ...

The Stooges: Ungano's, New York NY

Live Review by Bob Merlis, Record World, 29 August 1970

Club Review Stooges Score ...

The Name is Iggy

Profile by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 1 November 1970

AMERICA'S NEWEST Rock idol is probably only about 5ft tall. His stage "costume" is a pair of badly ripped blue jeans — and elbow length ...

The Stooges: Funhouse (Elektra)

Review by Lester Bangs, Creem, December 1970

Of Pop And Pies And Fun: Part Two A Program For Mass Liberation In The Form Of A Stooges Review Or, Who's The Fool? ...

The Stooges: The Incredible Story

Special Feature by Dave Marsh, ZigZag, December 1970

THERE'S A SAD possibility that people are on the verge of discovering, exploiting and generally going on about the Detroit Sound (like they did with ...

The Stooges: Fun House (Elektra).

Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 26 December 1970

NEXT TO GRAND Funk Railroad, this is the worst album I've heard this year. In truth it's a muddy load of sluggish, unimaginative rubbish heavily ...

The Stooges: Electric Circus, New York NY

Live Review by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 6 June 1971

IGGY IS THE ACT ...

Aesthetics of Outrage

Overview by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 26 November 1971

Update, 2020. "Perverted, outrageous, violent, repulsive, ugly, tasteless. A travesty. That's what's good about them". This was a quote about the Rolling Stones, recorded around ...

Night of the Iggy

Report and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 12 February 1972

WHO IS IT who smashes a microphone in his teeth, tears flesh from his bare chest, leaps into the audience busting bones in all directions, ...

Lock Up Your Daughters, Iggy's Here

Profile and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 1 April 1972

AS MARC BOLAN swung his hips for the benefit of Ringo Starr's camerawork, did any of the 9,000 upturned faces notice the auburn-haired American fifth ...

Iggy & The Stooges: Kingsound (King's Cross Cinema), London

Live Review by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 22 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 ...

An Initiation Into Iggy Pop

Profile by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 29 July 1972

For those who think Bowie a trifle lame... ...

Detroit's Rock Culture

Overview by Lester Bangs, Phonograph Record, December 1972

DETROIT, FOUNDED in 1736 by a turncoat (to both sides) halfbreed Indian named Quazimodo from the Kuitee tribe which dwelled circa 1670-1777 on the shores ...

Iggy & The Stooges: Raw Power (Columbia)

Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, March 1973

Iggy in Exile: Love in the Fire Zone ...

The Stooges: Raw Power

Review by Ben Edmonds, Phonograph Record, March 1973

ONE OF MY EARLIEST and most special memories is of sitting in front of a big television on a very early weekend morning watching a ...

Ray & Iggy: A Pair of Rock Aristocrats

Profile by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 8 April 1973

IN THEIR own ways, they are both aristocrats. Last week belonged to both of them, with Ray Davies and the Kinks playing two colleges in ...

Iggy Pop: Raw Power

Review by Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, 10 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: Raw Power (Columbia KC 32111).

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 1973

The Genuine Depravity of Iggy ...

Iggy and the Stooges: Raw Power (CBS 65586, £2.17) ****

Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 9 June 1973

Iggy gives power to the people... ...

Iggy and the Stooges, Rufus: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 1973

Iggy and the Stooges —Theater of Cruelty ...

Iggy and The Stooges: Raw Power (CBS); Dean Martin: Sittin' On Top Of The World (WEA)

Review by Jonathon Green, International Times, 28 June 1973

Punk drunk junk ...

The Stooges: The Apotheosis Of Every Parental Nightmare

Profile by Lester Bangs, Stereo Review, July 1973

THE BIGGEST TREND on the rock circuit this year is decadence. ...

Iggy & the Stooges: Raw Power (CBS)

Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 2 July 1973

Teenage insanity ...

Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells; Iggy And The Stooges: Raw Power

Review by Simon Frith, Let It Rock, August 1973

SOME RECORDS GET so much critical attention that I can’t listen to them blind, can’t ignore other opinions. So, according to John Peel Tubular Bells ...

The "Fun City Sound" Is What's Happening in Rock

Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 5 August 1973

SO THEY'RE saying rock and roll is dead? Not this week, they aren't! What a week! While every newspaper, radio and TV station was telling ...

New York Confidential: Iggy Pop

Report by Ed McCormack, Rolling Stone, 30 August 1973

HIS PLATINUM hair was ratty; his polo shirt was wrinkled and a big plastic hairbrush-handle stuck out of the back pocket of his Midwestern Prole ...

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, 6 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 & The Stooges: Pop Loses Sparkle: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles

Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 3 November 1973

LOS ANGELES: How low can rock and roll sink? This is a question that can never be answered as new depths will always be found ...

The Stooges: The Academy of Music, New York NY

Live Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 14 February 1974

N.Y. – Certainly not Kiss, a local band who remind of Black Sabbath, not Teenage Lust despite the scanty garb of the Lustettes, not even ...

Open Up and Bleed: Stooges in New York

Report by Lenny Kaye, Rock Scene, March 1974

IGGY IS hurt, he's down there on the floor, he's picking up these pieces of broken glass and tossing them down again, pissed at the ...

The Stooges, Dolls et al: First Annual Hollywood Street Revival & Trash Dance, Hollywood Palladium

Live Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, December 1974

THAT'S WHAT THEY called it, and if one were to believe the advance publicity, which spread by word of mouth through the Hollywood environs like ...

MC5/Stooges: Panic in Detroit

Report by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 14 December 1974

THOSE FUN lovers from the motor city, the Stooges and the MC5, are winding up for another rampage. Of course, we've heard tales like this ...

Iggy Pop: The Mighty Pop vs. the Hand of Blight

Special Feature by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 3 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 ...

Iggy And The Stooges: Metallic K.O. (Skydog) ****

Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 18 September 1975

Crass, conceited, vulgar and unpleasant. Also quite unique.  ...

Iggy & The Stooges: Metallic K.O. (Skydog)

Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 16 October 1976

Iggy — still burning his brain at both ends. ...

Iggy Pop on the Stooges (1977) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Stuart Grundy, Rock's Backpages transcripts, March 1977

This is a transcript of Stuart's audio interview with Iggy. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

IG and Super IG — Iggy Pop: The Idiot (RCA); The Stooges: The Stooges/Fun House (Elektra)

Review by Max Bell, Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 2 April 1977

Igs past and present collide in sonic fury as NICK KENT & MAX BELL once more grasp for the identity of the enIGma, quest for ...

Danny Fields: The Fields Connection

Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 9 July 1977

The Doors, MC5, Iggy & The Stooges, John Cale, Lou Reed, Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers and The Ramones — without them the last ten years of ...

James Williamson: Real Time Musician From Kill City

Interview by Jon Savage, Sounds, 25 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 ...

Lou Reed: From Genius to Jerk and Back

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 12 March 1978

LOU REED has been called everything from genius to jerk, and in the course of his career he's lived up to it all. With New ...

The Stooges: No Fun (Elektra)

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 9 August 1980

POINTLESS, PERHAPS so late as to be irrelevant, maybe. An opportunity missed, certainly. No Fun is all these things, I guess, but it does provide ...

Stooges Reissues

Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 1994

The Stooges (Elektra)Fun House (Elektra) FUN HOUSE is, no contest, the greatest rock'n'roll album of all time. And its prequel, The Stooges, is the tremor ...

Nick Kent: Hack From The Brink

Interview by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 28 May 1994

Wanna find out where MM acquired its taste for livid purple prose? Then let PAUL LESTER introduce you to legendary rock journalist NICK KENT, whose ...

The Stooges: Night of the Iguana

Retrospective by Paul Trynka, MOJO, May 1995

When Iggy Pop fled to New York in 1971, he was a rock pariah. Then came a notorious photoshoot and a rebirth. ...

Iggy & The Stooges: Raw Power

Retrospective by Jon Savage, Dazed & Confused, 1997

ONE HUGE problem with 1997 is not that rock groups are everywhere but that they are almost without exception over-promoted, overindulged and half-baked. ...

Iggy Pop: Coming Through Slaughter

Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, 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 ...

From The Vaults: A Look Back at Bad-Boy Pioneers MC5, Stooges

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 25 March 2000

RECORDINGS OF THESE TWO MIDWEST REBEL BANDS REVEAL THE HUGE INFLUENCE THEIR LANGUAGE AND SOUND HAVE HAD ON CURRENT ACTS. ...

The Stooges Deliver A Real Cool Time

Live Review by Edward Helmore, The Independent, 15 August 2003

The Stooges, Jones Beach Theatre, New York ...

Iggy & The Stooges: Wild Love (Bomp!)

Review by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, April 2004

BOMP RECORDS' exquisitely lo-lo-fi Iguana Chronicles proudly soldiers forward with this hour's-plus of rehearsal tapes from the Stooges' glory daze pre- (and possibly even post-) ...

Mike Ross-Trevor: "Are We Rolling?"

Interview by Paul Gorman, The Word, May 2004

In forty years of recording everyone from Dylan and Hendrix to Abba and Lena Zavaroni, a studio engineer sees a lot of strange things. ...

Little Steven's International Underground Garage Festival: Randall's Island, N.Y.

Live Review by Ben Edmonds, MOJO, October 2004

Forty-five bands plus Van Zandt's Boss defy failing weather and technology for New York's biggest garage rave-up. ...

The Stooges: Raw Power Revisited

Interview by Fred Mills, Detroit Metro Times, 10 August 2005

Warning: The following article does not constitute an endorsement of current phonographic products. – Editor ...

The Stooges: Real Cool Time

Retrospective by Fred Mills, Harp, September 2005

"MUDDY, BRUTAL, ecstatic music that grabbed anyone in its path roughly by the scruff of the neck and hurled them headlong into the very wilderness ...

Iggy Pop And The Stooges: Hammersmith Apollo, London

Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 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 ...

The Stooges: Heavy Liquid (Easy Action)

Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, October 2005

ASSEMBLED FROM a back catalogue of previously released sessions, rehearsals and various recording ephemera circa (1972–74) from what many believed to be The Stooges' last ...

The Stooges: Hammersmith Apollo, London

Live Review by Paul Trynka, MOJO, November 2005

For the first time since 1970, the Stooges play their legendary Fun House album. Paul Trynka gets loose. ...

The Rock Snob's Dictionary: An Introduction

Book Excerpt by David Kamp, Broadway Books, February 2006

2021 AUTHOR'S NOTE: This was written in 2005 and does not entirely hold up today. (But most of it does.) ...

The Stooges

Retrospective and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, March 2007

It's 2007, OK! Got a war across the USA! What better time, then, for Iggy Pop and the Stooges to return to their first album ...

Iggy Pop: Meet Ze Monster

Retrospective by Paul Trynka, MOJO, April 2007

How shy, preppy James Osterberg built himself an alter ego that would allow him to dominate, ingest and fornicate at will. And how, in turn, ...

The Stooges: Return To The Fun House

Retrospective and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, April 2007

SCENES OF PRIMAL rock'n'roll hoopla are not the normal preserve of a Butlins holiday camp. Yet behind the stage of the Reds ballroom, next door ...

"Come on, Ronnie, tell em' how I feel!"

Special Feature by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 14 January 2009

IT WASN'T always this way. Years ago, TV commercials and film soundtracks didn't feature the guitar sound Ron Asheton pioneered with the Stooges. Even in ...

The Stooges: Kill City Dreaming

Interview by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 7 October 2009

Iggy Pop and James Williamson talk Raw Power, their rift and reunion, Ron Asheton and the glory that (still) is Detroit ...

Gimme Danger …

Retrospective by Don Waller, Detroit Metro Times, 7 April 2010

Raw Power finally gets its due ...

Iggy and the Stooges: Raw Power

Review and Interview by David Quantick, Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, June 2010

Fine 3-CD reissue with live bootleg and much more ...

A Trip To Oya In Oslo Via Pavement, Munch & MIA 


Report by Chris Roberts, The Quietus, 20 August 2010

IF YOU GO for a cigarette on the fourth floor balcony of the hotel, you see cruise-ships and boats flanking a floating stage, upon which ...

Iggy & The Stooges: Gimme Danger

Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), March 2013

IT'S 7,000 KILOMETRES from Michigan Palace, Detroit, to The Prince's Palace, Monaco, but for Stooges guitarist James Williamson, the emotional distance is even greater. One ...

Iggy and the Stooges: Ready To Die

Review by John Lewis, Metro, 26 April 2013

ONE MIGHT mock Iggy Pop for advertising car insurance, but the truth is that being a rock legend doesn't come with a guaranteed stipend: his ...

Scott Asheton, 1949-2014

Obituary by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 17 March 2014

All-action drummer who was a mainstay of the Stooges both in their early years and during later reunions   ...

Gimme Danger: A Fun House Story of the Stooges

Film/DVD/TV Review by Betsy Sherman, The Arts Fuse, 4 November 2016

The documentary is a highly enjoyable musical and social history of the group and its times, showing how the Stooges went against the grain of ...

Farewell to Marc Zermati

Memoir by Nick Kent, unpublished, 15 June 2020

IT'S BEEN FIVE hours now since I received the news that Marc Zermati died in his sleep and — as with all deaths of those ...

Between Fun House & 'Funtime': Iggy Pop in the '70s

Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, TIDAL, 7 July 2020

Brilliantly out of step, the rock provocateur architected revolutionary sounds with the Stooges and Bowie. ...

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