Iggy Pop
MADRID, SPAIN - MAY 13: Pablo Motos (L) and American singer Iggy Pop (R) attend 'El Hormiguero' Tv show at Vertice Studio on May 13, 2013 in Madrid, Spain.
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He asked that I remain, on one side, slightly normal. So I only have my tattoos on my left side. I think he sees this as my Marilyn Monroe side, and he sees this (left side) as my Iggy Pop side.
It's true, it's a funny arc with us ... That is the way it is, actually, in all the various numerical yardsticks of all this crud - it's bigger than it was. We have the advantage that it was so tiny when we started. It was really really tiny in numerical scope, but it's grown and all those old records still sell really nice and steadily, and they're heavily licensed. People get to hear them at sports events and on movies and in adverts.
We promised the label that we'd do something in New York and something in Chicago in the fall ... I'd rather wait until then so people who like our music have a chance to live with some of the new songs.More quotes »
Around the web
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Short Film: ‘Somewhere In California’ Comes with ‘Coffee and Cigarettes’
Jim Jarmusch‘s Coffee and Cigarettes won the Palme d’Or at Cannes as the Best Short Film. Somewhere in California shoves Iggy Pop and Tom Waits into a restaurant booth with a big pile of droll wi, and the atmosphere of a tragically unsuccessful first date. from Film School Rejects Read more »
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Age is no obstacle for vintage Iggy and the Stooges
& the Stooges broke up in 1974, almost no one who had heard of the band had actually heard it. More than 40 years later, Iggy Pop's band has a new album "Ready To Die," a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and growing reverence for its place in music from Reading Eagle Read more »
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Iggy Pop: James Williamson is a 'brutal' guitarist
'The Departed', makes references to their journey over the years as well as reminiscing about former members they have lost. Iggy, 67, added to Mojo magazine: ''[It wasn't written] so much Ron as for a group of people. In Ann Arbor and Detroit in the late from STV Read more »
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Review: Iggy & The Stooges - Ready to Die
and The Stooges come blasting back on a funny and insightful outing 1 of 1 We'd never thought we'd say it, but these days Iggy Pop sounds better when he's dignified and not defiant. Back with The Stooges following 2007's The Weirdness but now with founding from RTE Interactive Read more »
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Review: Rolling Stones, at 50 years, remain rock beasts
so it’s no longer akin to getting walloped with a deceased fish. Iggy Pop upon seeing the Rolling Stones for the first time way back in the day: “It was like bein’ hit with a dead mackerel,” the spindly Stooges frontman and punk progenitor smirked in a series from Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com Read more »
