Iggy Pop
US singer Iggy Pop holds a microphone to sing during a press conference to present his new album 'Après', on May 9, 2012 in Paris.'Après' ('After' in French) is Iggy Pop's 16th record, with covers of international and French standards (such as Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, Edith Piaf, Serge Gainsbourg, Georges Brassens, Henri Salvador), exclusively on sale on the French online retailer website vente-privee.com, specialising in selling brand overstock and organizing events-based sales.
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I listened to Radioactivity by Kraftwerk pretty much constantly while writing this record, and... we listened to a lot of Eno and Fripp and the Iggy Pop record that David Bowie produced
Hey, I like Johnny Thunders and Iggy Pop and the good bits of the Rolling Stones a lot.
I wanted to sing some of these songs myself, hoping to bring the feeling I felt as a listener to my listeners through my voice ... Many of these songs are in French, probably because it is French culture which has most stubbornly resisted the mortal attacks of the Anglo-American music machine.More quotes »
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Ebook Maker Inkling Jumps to the Web
What has a record company ever done for me but humiliate and torment and drag me down? — Iggy Pop, on why he decided to sell his new album himself AllThingsD.com is a Web site devoted to news, analysis and opinion on technology, the Internet and media. B from Voices | All Things Digital Read more »
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Iggy Pop Croons in French and Covers Brassens, Henri Salvador in Apres
Reviewer wonders if Iggy understood what lyrics meant when he was singing them. Another complain from some quarters is how short Apres is at 28 minutes. I would never have imagined Brassens covered by the godfather of punk yet he does just that with 'Les from Serge the Concierge Read more »
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Photographer iO Tillett Wright has shot everyone from Olivia Thirlby to Iggy Pop, but since 2010 she has focused her lens on average Americans, taking simple portraits of anyone who identifies as somewhere along the LGBTQ spectrum. Dubbed the Self Eviden from Elle.com Read more »
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Iggy Pop self-distributes: “What has a record company ever done for me?” [with video]
Iggy Pop, the iconoclastic artist often called the godfather of punk, castigated record companies during a press conference in which he explained why his new release Après was exclusively digital. “What has a record company ever done for me but humiliate from Digital Media Wire Read more »
