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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: ****

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

Comment by Nick Kent, NME, 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 ...

Iggy Pop, Stooges, The: 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 ...

Iggy Pop, David Bowie: Iggy Pop: A new career in a new town

Report and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 5 March 1977

Iggy Pop, touring Britain this week, speaks to MICHAEL WATTS from Berlin. David Bowie's saying nothing... ...

Iggy Pop: Lust For Life (RCA)

Review by Max Bell, NME, 27 August 1977

GOG AND MAGOG?! No, Dog And Maindog. A Pure Pop Person Pleads Sanity. MAX BELL Was At The Hearings. ...

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 ...

Iggy Pop: The Idiot (RCA APL1-2275)

Review by John Swenson, Rolling Stone, 5 May 1977

IGGY POP has always been the greatest rock comedian. As leader and frontispiece for that most extreme wing of rock nihilism represented by the Stooges, ...

Iggy Pop's Revenge

Report and Interview by Wesley Strick, Circus, 26 May 1977

The Return, In Relative Good Health, Of Rock's Ragged Edge ...

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 ...

Iggy Pop: The Idiot

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, Stooges, The: Iggy & the Stooges: Raw Power (CBS)

Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 2 July 1973

Teenage insanity ...

Iggy Pop: 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 ...

Iggy Pop: Lust For Life (RCA AFLI 2488)*****

Review by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 20 August 1977

"Yeah I'm through with sleeping on the sidewalk,no more beating my brains,no more beating my brains,with liquor and drugs,with liquor and drugs,well I'm just a modern ...

Iggy Pop: Dr Iggy and Mr Pop

Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, 24 March 1979

"I am totally into corruption." ...

Iggy Pop: Roseland, New York, NY

Live Review by Carol Cooper, Newsday, 11 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 ...

Iggy Pop: Doggie Style: Iggy Pop

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 ...

David Bowie, Elliott Murphy, New York Dolls, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Rolling Stones, The: Farewell Androgyny n. hermaphroditism (Gr. Gyne, woman)

Overview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 16 March 1974

Is it time to shut the closet door? OUR HERO SEES THROUGH THE SEE-THROUGHS AND COMES TO THE CONCLUSION THAT ELEGANCE IS MORE THAN A LIMP ...

Iggy Pop, Stooges, The: 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 ...