Eric was brought up by his mother, in California, and lives in Berlin now.) The bassist was just the guy who couldnt play guitar as well as the other guy. The recording sessions produced the rock landmark Raw Power. Osterberg became interested in Ron Asheton after seeing him perform in the Chosen Few (a covers band), believing "Ive never met a convincing musician that didnt look kind of ill and kind of dirty, and Ron had those two things covered! I was on a tour break at a fairly snobby hotel near Nice. To all Poptimists! [6][7][8] He was one of the first performers to do a stage-dive and popularized the activity. When Post Pop Depression got good reviews, across the board, he got emotional, because that had never occurred before, Homme said. Members of the MC5 were also in attendance. Working with rock attorney Stann Findelle, Pop scored more movie soundtrack inclusions in 1989: "Living on the Edge of the Night" in the Ridley Scott thriller Black Rain; and "Love Transfusion", a song originally written by Alice Cooper (who does backing vocals) and Desmond Child,[44] in Wes Craven's Shocker. Pop has some unclear super-powers, which he uses when he and Nomi turn against Bowie. Late in the day, Pop and I walked down a short stone path and sat in a pair of sea-foam-green Adirondack chairs by the edge of the Little River. Pop and Ron Asheton wrote most of the tracks. Pop played himself as the DJ of the fictional rock station Liberty Rock Radio 97. James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer, musician, radio broadcaster, songwriter and actor. [4], Initially playing a raw, primitive style of rock and roll (progressing later towards more experimental and aggressive rock), the Stooges sold few records in their original incarnation and gained a reputation for their confrontational performances, which often involved acts of self-mutilation by Pop. I kind of like it. The rock critic Lester Bangsa fanwrote, in Creem, in 1970, Antisocial art simply dont fit in, brothers and sisters. Scott died the same way, in 2014. Pop and Underworld had both contributed tracks to Danny Boyle's 1996 movie Trainspotting. [34], Bowie and Pop relocated to West Berlin to wean themselves off their respective drug addictions. While visiting New Zealand, Pop recorded a music video for "I'm Bored", and attended a record company function where he appeared to slap a woman and throw wine over a photographer. The interior was a creamy-white leather. [84] In December, Pop featured on a rework of Elvis Costello's song "No Flag" from Costello's 2020 album Hey Clockface. Pop lent his image to PETA's campaign against the annual Canada seal hunt. During a live performance in Brooklyn in 1981, Pop smashed a microphone into his own face, knocking out a front tooth. In 1983, Pop's fortunes changed when David Bowie recorded a cover of the song "China Girl". He paused. Earlier in the day, at a small studio in Coral Gables, Pop had recorded two episodes of Iggy Confidential, the BBC Radio 6 music program he began hosting in 2015, after finding that he enjoyed the experience of acting, as he put it, as a kind of atmospheric bartender. His broadcasting voice is deep, slow, and pleasantly wobbly. [111], Pop also appears as a zombie in the 2019 Jim Jarmusch film The Dead Don't Die.[112]. Pop has also collaborated with the composer Jamie Saft, the producer Danger Mouse, and the experimental musician Oneohtrix Point Never, who worked with him on The Pure and the Damned, a song for the 2017 film Good Time, directed by Josh and Benny Safdie. In 2015, Pop had a starring role as Vicious in the Bjrn Tagemose-directed silent film Gutterdmmerung opposite Grace Jones, Henry Rollins and Lemmy. Ron Asheton grudgingly moved from guitar to bass. He used the phrase "paki shop", apparently unaware of its racist connotations, prompting three complaints and an apology from the BBC.[52]. "Yes, I have been in touch," the "Black Widow . The same year he appeared on Hashisheen, The End of Law, a collaborative effort by Bill Laswell, reading on the tracks The Western Lands and A Quick Trip to Alamut. [155], "Looking remarkably healthy for a man who nurtured a world-class drug habit for many years, the "Godfather of Punk" Iggy Pop is set to close the Other Stage on Saturday night." Now, Pop told me, his skeleton is the weak area. Occasionally, he uses a cane. The records they made in Berlin pulled them both out of this pit that theyd dug themselves into., While we sat by the canal, I made an offhand comment about how Pop is now the last man standing, which I meant in a general sense. [23], Osterberg began his music career as a drummer in various high school bands in Ann Arbor, Michigan, including The Iguanas, who covered several records such as Bo Diddley's "Mona" in 1965. Warhol wrote that he met Pop when he was Jim Osterberg, at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 1966. Pop voiced the character Texas Red on the Adult Swim animated comedy Mr. Pickles, which ran from 2014 to 2019. Photograph by Ryan McGinley for The New Yorker. In 2012, Pop played the conscience of a clown named Elliot (Denis Lavant) in the French film L'toile du jour[fr] (Morning Star) directed by Sophie Blondy[fr]. [38] Williamson left the project. "[29] The three nicknamed Osterberg "Pop" after a local character whom he resembled.[30]. However, since neither Pop nor Williamson were satisfied with any players in England, they decided to re-unite the Stooges. His father was a former high school English teacher and baseball coach at Fordson High School. [53] Pop also sang on the "No Fun" cover by Asian Dub Foundation on their 2008 album Punkara. Further, he belongs to the Caucasian ethnicity. The penultimate track on Free is Pop reading Dylan Thomass poem Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, over moody peals of guitar, synthesizer, and horn. Iggy Pop - 'Every Loser' Out Now: https://Atlantic.lnk.to/IggyPopEveryLoserIDhttp://everyloser.iggypop.comAnimation by Andrew Ralph @awralphFollow Iggy PopFa. Pop said that the song was his response to being "sick of listening to idiot thugs with guitars banging out crappy music". And then they pick me up, and take me where Im going, and I sit there for a couple of hours, and I realize where I am and what Ive got to do., Pop has never imagined a traditional domestic life for himself. Pop and the Stooges played the Glastonbury Festival in June 2007. He has been married three times: to Wendy Weissberg (for several weeks in 1968, the marriage was annulled shortly thereafter), to Suchi Asano (1984 to 1999), and most recently, to his longtime partner Nina Alu. His father's name is James Newell Osterberg Sr., and his mother is Louella Christensen. The song was a re-recording, with Pop providing the vocals, translated to French for this version. Then he bought an electric-blue 1984 Ferrari 308 GTS, which he described as a motorcycle with a top on it. That one caught fire every once in a while. Houellebecq couldnt get Neil Young. You have the two pillars of the new alt industry there, and in the middle you have this sort of shaky proposition., Some of Pops most interesting and idiosyncratic work has been made in the past decade, including two recordsPrliminaires, from 2009, and Aprs, from 2012inspired by Dixieland jazz, French chanson, mid-century American standards, and the books of Michel Houellebecq, Pops favorite living novelist. [22] In a 2007 Rolling Stone interview, he explained his relationship with his parents and their contribution to his music: Once I hit junior high in Ann Arbor, I began going to school with the son of the president of Ford Motor Company, with kids of wealth and distinction. Blah-Blah-Blah was Pop's highest-charting album in the U.S. since The Idiot in 1977, peaking at No. [18] In April 2020, he released an alternate mix of his "China Girl", as part of a seven-disc deluxe box set, due to feature expanded remastered versions of The Idiot and Lust for Life (Iggy Pop album)|Lust for Life. Thomas wrote the poem in 1947, when he was thirty-three; he died six years later. Shortly after we met, Pop offered to accompany me while I moved my rental car. However, he did so on three occasions at a concert in Madrid, Spain on April 30, 2010,[62] and did similarly at London's Hammersmith Apollo on May 2, 2010. There are a handful of acrylic paintings that Pop made himself, including a striking portrait of his wife, rendered in shades of blue, gray, and red. The center wont hold the ends., He doesnt want to re-tread ground that hes covered before, Wayne Kramer, the guitarist and co-founder of the Detroit rock band the MC5, told me. He was a pariah at times in his life. "[40], The 1982 album Zombie Birdhouse on Chris Stein's Animal label, with Stein himself producing, was no more commercially successful than his Arista works. The Passenger was the putative name for a biographical film about Pop's early career with the Stooges. [105] In the same year, Pop starred in Toby Tobias' thriller Blood Orange in which he plays an aging rock star. With his era-defining group The Stooges, Iggy Pop created furious rock music by blending together blues and free jazz influences with the roar of the Michigan automotive industry. But subjectively, I don't want to be involved in any way. [93], Upon release in January 2023. It seemed to me that on the West Coast everything was diluted with a kind of Pollyannaish, utopian vision of the future.. Jeep Holland, the manager of Discount Records, would holler Iguana alert! whenever Pop emerged from the stockroom in the basement of the store. Pop voiced Lil' Rummy on the Comedy Central show Lil' Bush, and also provided the voice for a character in the English-language version of the 2007 animated film Persepolis. From afar, Pop resembles a bronze statuette. [4] Eventually, Pop got bored doing British Invasion covers. Meanwhile, I was crazy as a loon myself.. The phone rings; I get offered work. He travels with an extra hat for guests, in case the sun or the sea breeze becomes overwhelming. [63] On July 9, 2010, Pop again stage dived in Zottegem, Belgium, causing bleeding from the face. He was talking about things as they are, rather than in pop conventions, Richard Hell said, of Pop. He's the last of the one-and-onlys', "Mojo's 100 Greatest Albums of All Time | Book awards | LibraryThing", "Lost in the Aussie Funhouse: "Descent Into the Maelstrom: The Radio Birdman Story", "Alice In Chains - 10-28-93 Layne Staley Guest Programming Rage", "Slash's Influences | Favorite bands, albums and songs", "Peter Hook: my top 10 favourite albums", "Nintendo Feature: 10 Amazing Mario Facts", "Song of the Year: 2016 Ultimate Classic Rock Awards", "What Was 2017's Best New Live Album / Video? He is an only child, and was brought up by his mother, Louella, who worked for . In 2009, James Williamson rejoined the band after 29 years. The album is available on legal download sites, CD, and a deluxe box set is available at only 6000 units worldwide. You blank, blank, blank." Iggy Pop was born in Muskegon, Michigan, on April 21, 1947 to James Newell Osterberg, Sr. and Louella. We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous Singer. While in Chicago, he played drums in blues clubs, helped by Sam Lay (formerly of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band) who shared his connections with Pop. On Tonight in 1984, Bowie recorded five more of their co-written songs (2 from Lust for Life, 1 from New Values, and 2 new songs), assuring Pop financial security, at least for the short term. Pop is a courteous chauffeur. Additional inspiration was drawn from Jean Baudrillard, Edvard Munch's 1894 painting Puberty, and Roland Barthes Death of the Author. Follow our playlists http://lnkfi.re/NGofficialIggy PopWebsite https://iggypop.com/Bandcamp https://iggypop.bandcamp.com/NICE GUYSOfficial Playlist. Pop is a voracious and enthusiastic student of American music, from the Ronettes and Dave Brubeck to Link Wray and Bob Dylan. It seemed as if Pop had learned something about how to sublimate despair through song, but, he said, I realized I wasnt going to be Howlin Wolfs drummer., Pop returned to Ann Arbor just as many of his classmates and neighbors were being shipped off to war. If he is touring, his preshow ritual takes eight or nine hours. In a 1995 interview with Bust, he relates: And the other thing was we went to New York. He has a son, Eric Benson, born in 1970 to Paulette Benson. and hung up the phone). He enrolled at the University of Michigan, and, soon after, he left the Iguanas for a blues band called the Prime Movers. He built a rickety seven-foot riser for his drum kit, so that he towered over his bandmates like some sort of magnificent despot. One shoe had been customized with a platform sole, to correct for an inch-and-a-half difference in the length of his legs, a condition he attributes to arthritis combined with an old football injury. I read an article that said she tried to get David Bowie and couldnt, he said. In 2017, Pop composed and performed vocals on the Oneohtrix Point Never song "The Pure and the Damned" on the soundtrack for the crime film Good Time. While in Melbourne, he made a memorable appearance on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's nationwide show Countdown. The portrait is strikingPop looks innocent, grateful, and happy. Returning to the Rolls, he said, What I like about it is, it makes me feel like everythings O.K. Though he lives with his wife, Nina Alu, a former flight attendant, in Coconut Grove, an upscale neighborhood opposite Key Biscayne, he spends a few afternoons or evenings a week at a small bungalow that he owns north of Miami, in El Portal. In 1971, Scott Asheton, who played drums in the group, got blitzed on the sedative secobarbital and drove a tall truck full of rented gear under a low bridge. With Williamson signed on as guitarist, the search began for a rhythm section. The most personal piece on Free is Loves Missing, a propulsive song about the value of companionship and loyalty. [54], On December 15, 2009, it was announced that the Stooges would be inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 15, 2010. This makes him 75 years old as of 2022. B. Smith singing No More Good Time in the World for Me, Robert Johnson worrying over the hellhound on his trail. We spent the next two days cruising around like this. [81][12], Pop's eighteenth studio album, Free, was released on September 6, 2019. One afternoon, Pop gave me a tour of the place. (Pop was borrowed from an acquaintance named Jimmy Popp. In 1976, a recording of the show was released, titled Metallic K.O. In 1977, Lester Bangs wrote about the record for the Village Voice: Nobody gets killed, but Metallic K.O. is the only rock album I know where you can actually hear hurled beer bottles breaking against guitar strings., Pop was strung out. Also in 1992, he collaborated with the New York City band White Zombie. I had a rag that I used to beat it out with. He began playing drums in fifth grade. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. "[this track] made me feel good and it was good company and I hoped I could put it out and it would be good company for someone else too" . Other influences on Pop's vocals and persona were Mick Jagger and James Brown. Dave Alexander had been fired in 1970, for showing up too drunk to perform. As he waded in, Pop told me that hed once stayed at a Holiday Inn in Tallahassee, missing a Merle Haggard performance in the hotel bar by a day. The P.A. [95] After performing a run of six shows in the US in April,[95] he will co-headline the Cruel World Festival in Pasadena, California, on May 20. I had a date with a girl who became my wife, and I took her somewhere nice, and on the way home she said, I think the cars on fire!. Not in a vague, something-explosive-is-starting-here way but in a spilled-blood way. I don't feel negative about it at all. He took all the monotony and frustration and made it great.. Pop sang four of the songs: In the Deathcar, TV Screen, Get the Money, and This is a Film. The Stooges were neither hippies nor pacifists. Even Rolling Stone, a bullhorn for the counterculture, didnt entirely dig it: Their music is loud, boring, tasteless, unimaginative and childish. There really was some of that in there.[31]. Iggy didnt smoke cigarettes, didnt get high, didnt drink. Every few years, Pops high-school-yearbook photograph circulates on the Internet: looking dewy and handsome, wearing a jacket and a tie, he gazes at the camera with a curious mixture of eagerness and apathy. Father of Private. [96] European and UK concerts will follow, with stops in festivals, including Bergenfest on June 15, Azkena Rock Festival on June 17, Crystal Palace Park festival on July 1, and Musilac Music Festival on July 8.[95]. Pops selections that morning included songs from contemporary acts such as FKA Twigs, Bill Callahan, Cate Le Bon, and Tyler, the Creator, along with Hot Chile, a single that James Brown and his band released in 1960, using the pseudonym Nat Kendrick and the Swans. Bowie re-recorded and performed many of Pop's songs throughout his career. Called the "Godfather of Punk",[2][3] he was the vocalist and lyricist of proto-punk band The Stooges, who were formed in 1967 and have disbanded and reunited many times since. Iggy Pop Real name James Newell Osterberg Jr. Born April 21, 1947 Country United States IPI 00053204712 27 works 00053205023 2 works 00063888830 30 works 00063888928 76 works 00221959662 1 work 00269949887 9 works 00288380819 3 works Affiliation BMI Comments Rock singer, guitarist, drummer and songwriter. Youve got to fill out this form, and talk about this, and come down, and get manhandled and assaulted, and Whats your job? and Who employs you? He prefers to buy his cars used. In Detroit, the bar was very highit was the home of Motown. He added, We were informed by unionism, and having an organized voice against corporate power. Though it seems clear that Pop was working, in part, by instinct, he was also being intentional. His drug habit varied in intensity during this time, but persisted. Though the release of Fun House did not receive the recognition expected, it was later ranked No. Those words hardly describe any music in rock today, but thats what the Stooges gave usperfect, seemingly effortless rock songs., At the time, however, critics and listeners mostly found the band insanefour angry young men brazenly wrecking themselves in service of who knows what. The extremity of the placeit is both environmentally tenuous and aesthetically vulgarseems to suit Pop, who, in the late nineteen-sixties, as a member of the Stooges, helped invent and refine punk rock, a genre of music so menacing and physically savage that it is sometimes shocking that Pop has made it to the age of seventy-two. In 2017, shortly after his 70th birthday, Pop was made a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Consul general in Miami on behalf of the French government. (There is a famous photograph of Pop taken that night, wearing tight jeans, a studded dog collar, and a silver lam glove, walking upright on the audiences raised hands, as if the crowd were a floor made of people.) Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Simple is not easy. Though he has had Lasik surgeryIn Colombia, before it was legal herehis vision is still imperfect, a malady he chalks up to doing too much intravenous cocaine. And we didn't have anywhere to crash, and they played for us, and they completely rocked, and we were really ashamed. Its not a personal lack of confidence so much as an imposed one, Pop told me. David Bowie, Pop, and Lou Reed at the Dorchester Hotel, in London, in 1972. [75], In 2016, Pop recorded an album with Josh Homme titled Post Pop Depression. Pops lyrics were blunt. And there was a beach photographer who came every day with her giant camera, and she was photographing peoples kids. The Polar Music Prize 2022 is awarded to American rock icon James Newell Osterberg, better known as Iggy Pop. Pop's 2003 album Skull Ring featured collaborators Sum 41, Green Day, Peaches, and The Trolls, as well as Ron and Scott Asheton, reuniting the three surviving founding members of the Stooges for the first time since 1974. And the kids were jumping and having so much fun. I wake up, cup of coffee, stay in bed, clear my mind, dont think about the show, he said. The nickname shrank to Iggy, and stuck. In early August, the eponymous dbut album from the Stooges, which Pop helped form, in 1967, celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. When the traffic necessitated quick braking, he shot his arm in front of my chest. Id go to the beach and come home, go to the beach and come home. In 2010, the band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He describes this new release as a "quieter album with some jazz overtones", the first single off the album, "King of the Dogs", bearing a sound strongly influenced by New Orleans jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton. Anyone who was still alive and able to crawl to the sofa would watch Starsky & Hutch. The backing music was Pop's song 'The Passenger'. I sound like Shrek.. Iggy Pop turned 73 on Tuesday and he celebrated by unearthing a cover of the Sly and the Family Stone classic "Family Affair" that he recorded with funk icon Bootsy Collins back in 1985. It was released in September 2022. In 1997, he remixed Raw Power to give it a rougher, more hard-edged sound; fans had complained for years that Bowie's official "rescue effort" mix was muddy and lacking in bass. Also in 2003, his first full-length biography was published. [39] Excuse mea new car? he asked. This was the beginning of a fruitful and largely drug-free period for both artists. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . Iggy and the Stooges were a giant opening to me, the singer and writer Richard Hell told me. They have toured regularly since 2004. "I . In 1996, Pop released Naughty Little Doggie, with Whitey Kirst returning on guitar, and the single "I Wanna Live". Pop yowled through a fierce, rumbling version of TV Eye, it was more than clear that in the 33 years since the song was recorded, the genre has largely been variations on a theme. He and his assistant, Spencer, planted most of the trees on the property: Dade County pines, royal palms, coconut palms. [66] He is also featured on Kesha's song "Dirty Love" on her second album Warrior. The song has also been used in TV commercials for Royal Caribbean and as the theme music to The Jim Rome Show, a nationally syndicated American sports talk show. In conversation, he is nearly guileless, and he listens intently and carefully. Iggy Pop attended junior high in Ann Arbor, alongside wealthy children from powerful families, such as the son of the President of the Ford Motor Company. He took all the monotony and frustration and made it great. In the eighties and nineties, young and discordant indie-rock bands were equally shaped by the Stooges music. Look Away, a documentary about sexual abuse in the rock music industry, is named after an Iggy Pop song about Starr. I attended two concerts by the Doors. Iggy Pop Josh Homme on Iggy Pop: 'Lemmy is gone. Iggy Pop ascends to greatness: Tom Copi's best photograph Iggy Pop rides the crowd during a Stooges concert at Crosley Field, Cincinnati, on 23 June 1970. Iggy Pop Popularity Most Popular #7206 Born on April 21 #21 Punk Singer #2 75 Year Old #8 First Name Iggy #2 Born in Muskegon, MI #1 Last Name Pop #2 75 Year Old Singer #3 Iggy Pop Movies Cry-Baby The Dead Don't Die Snow Day More David Bowie Bill Murray Alfred Molina Elizabeth II Madi Filipowicz More Taurus Charli D'Amelio Chase Hudson Ron Asheton had died in Ann Arbor in 2009, of a suspected heart attack, and was replaced by James Williamson. I didnt know anybody, he said. The following year Pop contributed to Buckethead's album Giant Robot, including the songs "Buckethead's Toy Store" and "Post Office Buddy". In addition to Jim Morrison and The Doors' influence on the band, Pop also attributes the Stooges getting jump-started after seeing an all-girls rock band from Princeton, New Jersey, called The Untouchable. He appears also on the Les Rita Mitsouko album Systme D where he sings the duet "My Love is Bad" with Catherine Ringer. He got the idea to do it after an advertising agency asked him to read the poem for a commercial voice-over. Iggy's phenomenal cover of this Sly & the Family Stone classic. In 2005, Pop appeared, along with Madonna, Little Richard, Bootsy Collins, and The Roots' Questlove, in an American TV commercial for the Motorola ROKR phone. He reminds me a little of Bruno Mars and Sal Mineo. Between shows, Pop emerged from the cool, dark booth, shirtless and looking for sunshine. In 1963, Pop started a band called the Iguanas, which played surf rock and covers of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Kinks. A few months later, Pop and Bowie travelled together to the Chteau dHrouville, an eighteenth-century estate outside of Paris, to make what became The Idiot, Pops solo dbut. He was often zonked on heroin. The story gets told now as a metaphor: the Stooges simply refused to acknowledge the laws of physics. I hit my cuestheres certain blocking to remember, like in a play. Then I lightly visualize for about an hour. In 1976, Bowie took Pop along as his companion on the Station to Station tour. I allowed the humor to come in where a lot of people wouldnt have, he said. Pop had "about two hours of a strong emotional reaction" to the news.[55]. This box set contains the Prliminaires album, a collector "Les Feuilles Mortes" b/w "King of the Dogs" 7inch, the cover of which is Pop's portrait by Marjane Satrapi, and a 38-page booklet of drawings also by Marjane Satrapi. They formed a band called the Psychedelic Stooges, and began developing their sound in the basement. The Stooges fell apart shortly thereafter, for all the usual reasons: drugs, clashing agendas, poor sales. James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally by his stage name Iggy Pop, and designated the "Godfather of Punk," is an American singer, songwriter, musician, producer and actor. In Please Kill Me, Legs McNeil and Gillian McCains oral history of punk, his classmate Ron Asheton describes a teen-age Pop as fairly conventional: He hung out with the popular kids that wore chinos, cashmere sweaters, and penny loafers. The album featured his first Top 40 U.S. hit, "Candy", a duet with B-52's singer Kate Pierson. Pop wrote the lyrics. As a d.j., Pop is good at revealing the connective tissue between seemingly incompatible numbers. I think Bowie saw in Iggy a kind of weird doppelgnger, the writer and guitarist Lenny Kaye told me. Chicago blues is rowdy and licentious, but it carries some of the lonesomeness of the genres country forebears: J. The Stooges' last show in 1974 ended in a fight between the band and a group of bikers, documented on the album Metallic K.O. In 2014, Pop presented (narrated) the BBC documentary Burroughs at 100. Following a March 21, 1976, show, Bowie and Pop were arrested together for marijuana possession in Rochester, New York, although charges were later dropped. [citation needed] The groundbreaking video explores transhumanist philosopher FM-2030's ideas of Nostalgia for the Future in the form of an imagined love affair between a robot and one of Man Ray's models in Paris in the late 1930s. Bowie helped write and produce The Idiot and Lust for Life, Pop's two most acclaimed albums as a solo artist, the latter featuring one of his best-known songs, "The Passenger". Dont tell me that I cant strip off my shirt and go make a big primitive noise, he said. The Stooges are now functionally kaputof the original lineup, only Pop is left. So it would be sort-of ludicrous to try and tour as Iggy and the Stooges when there's only one Stooge in the band and then you have side guys. But Pops work has grown more interior in recent years. 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