![]() ![]() And I have pictures there of me and Lou romping and one of me with the Thin White Duke… you know, pictures from various periods of what I've done. But I've also got a place where I go to be a shit. I live elsewhere, you know I'm married and have a lot of wonderful little animals and things like that. So you can understand the desire to hang this sort of rock art on your walls… "I actually have a small home here that I don't share with anyone. It must have felt like your life was flashing in front of you. I had somebody I wanted to be, a way I wanted to look, and a way I wanted to sound and it had nothing to do with having 10 quid in my pocket." So we were on a mission – partly to get people to get with it and partly to get there ourselves. The game was sewed up so that nothing any good could get in. These people peddling this horrible showbiz crap. "So we were living in Fulham and you'd turn on the TV or radio and I think it was Jimmy Savile, or this succession of awful creeps with insinuating voices, would come on and say, 'Hi mums, here's the new one from Elton' or whatever. Pop and his band, the Stooges, had ended up living in west London because David Bowie, a fan and friend, had encouraged him to try his luck in the UK after Pop had been dropped by the aforementioned Elektra, his American record label. At the time I really felt I had to convert the world, through the sword if necessary, and I was probably going to die one way or another in the process." I'm only now losing a little bit of the kamikaze sense of mission that that person had. It is a bright winter's day in Miami and Pop has agreed to this one interview because Foruli – a British publishing company that has carved out a niche in high-end books on rock'n'roll subjects – is commemorating the 40th anniversary of Raw Power by issuing a set of pictures of Iggy in his pomp, shot by Mick Rock, and hand-signed by the pair of them.Ĭan you still relate to the young man with the burning eyes in those shots? He greets you with a Joey-from-Friends-style "How you doin'?" and – unusual this from a bona-fide rock star – actually waits for an answer. Even now, just a few months shy of his 66th birthday, Iggy Pop is not a man who can be constrained. But Iggy is Iggy and within 15 minutes he has brought up both. ![]() He is, his people have insisted, not to mention either David Bowie's recent comeback or the new record he has been working on. It is 40 years since the British photographer Mick Rock shot the images that adorned the front and back covers of the legendary performer's stop-you-in-your-tracks album Raw Power. ![]()
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