Happy Birthday, Iggy Pop! Mostly shirtless but always dangerous since 1947!

Mr "Gimme Danger"

Mr "Gimme Danger" at Beale Street Music Festival, New Orleans, LA, 2007.
Photo: Bill Dierssen. Later version(s) uploaded by Pomte at en.wikipedia., CC-BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

How many second chances does Iggy Pop get?

– journalist/Rolling Stone editor David Fricke on Iggy and The Stooges’ Ready To Die

[…]the man doesn’t seem to know how to sell out, even when he tries[…]

– journalist Mark Deming on Iggy’s Party

Mr Dichotomy, the Peanut-Butter-Smeared One himself has said…

I just got sick of listening to idiot thugs with guitars banging out crappy music.[1][2][3]

“Idiot thugs with guitars” or not, Iggy’s still got the goods…and the voice…

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  1. https://ew.com/article/2009/06/05/iggy-pop-calls-fred-durst-a-thug/ ↩︎

  2. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/may/22/iggy-pop-preliminaires-music-review ↩︎

  3. https://iorr.org/talk/read.php?1,1039625,1040653 ↩︎