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April 19, 2007

The Rolling Stone Interview: Iggy Pop

The legendary Stooge looks back on his forty-year reign as the world's wildest, craziest punk. Plus: Hear audio excerpts from the interview!
November 19, 2003

Iggy's Trail of Destruction

Pop terrorized and revolutionized rock & roll

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Preliminaires

With the recent Stooges reunion, 62-year-old Iggy Pop proved that old guys can still be punk-rock bone-crushers. This bizarre foray into French jazz, Dixieland swing and lite Euro-trashy electro (inspired by nihilist-chic novelist Michel Houellebecq) proves they can also be insane. Yet despite some...

2009 RS: 2.5of 5 Stars

Skull Ring

2003

Beat 'Em Up

2001

Naughty Little Doggie

1996

American Caesar

1993

Brick By Brick

1990

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Biography

With his outrageous, cathartic, and at times dangerous stage antics, and the relentless rock & roll that accompanied them, Iggy Pop prefigured both '70s punk and '90s grunge. With his persona as that of the eternal misfit, saboteur of all convention, Pop has parlayed twisted social commentary, an affecting if limited vocal style, and unlikely survival smarts into a long career characterized by sca...

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