Eager to retreat from the unmanageable success of his own Ziggy Stardust and Thin White Duke personae, he dragged Pop to Berlin, where he produced Iggy’s first two solo albums: The Idiot and Lust For Life, released in March and September of that year, respectively. In 1977, though, Bowie stepped into the breach again. By the following year, the Stooges were fully dead, and Iggy was about to vanish down a rabbit hole of heroin addiction.
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Sadly, neither album sold very well, and it was up to fan and friend David Bowie to attempt CPR on Iggy’s career with 1973’s Raw Power - the first of many such interventions. The Stooges effectively ended the ’60s with their sullen, minimalistic self-titled debut, produced by the Velvet Underground’s John Cale they launched the ’70s with the follow-up, the life-altering Fun House, produced by Don Gallucci of garage-rock one-hit wonders the Kingsmen (“Louie Louie”). Iggy’s art balances primitivism and smart popcraft (no pun intended), and avant-gardists have frequently been drawn to his unique fervor.
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From that moment on, the Iggy cult - small, but fervent - was in full force as the man himself spent show after show flipping, writhing, diving off the stage, and gashing himself with broken glass, while still managing to deliver shockingly smart and perceptive lyrics in a leonine baritone. ( Watch Henry Rollins, no slouch as a live act himself in the Rollins Band days, describe what it’s like to share a bill with Iggy.) He first vaulted into the public consciousness in 1970, when the Cincinnati Pop Festival was broadcast on TV and a shirtless Iggy walked out into the audience, balancing on their hands, caught a jar of peanut butter hurled from the darkness, and began smearing it on his chest, while onstage his band the Stooges kept right on cranking out their slablike, psychedelic, grunge-inventing riffs. Since 1969, his whirling, explosive live performances have set a standard that 99 percent of rock artists have utterly failed to meet.
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Iggy Pop is the beating heart of rock ‘n’ roll.