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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!
December 19, 2006

In the Studio: Stooges Back to Destroy

The original punk band returns with first LP since '73. PLUS: Exclusive audio with Iggy Pop
April 22, 2005

The Immortals - The Greatest Artists of All Time: 78) The Stooges

By Thurston Moore
November 19, 2003

Iggy's Trail of Destruction

Pop terrorized and revolutionized rock & roll

The Weirdness

Something about Iggy Pop brings out the beast in guitar players. On the first two Stooges albums, he drove Ron Asheton to turn his wah-wah into a flamethrower. Then, on the 1973 comeback, Raw Power, he goaded James Williamson into playing a lifetime reputation's worth of shredded-skull brain...

2007 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

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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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