![]() Then he reminded listeners that when The Beatles debuted in the US, it was not with their first studio album, Please Please Me, but with an album released by Vee-Jay Records titled Introducing… The Beatles. On the 24 September episode of his typically two-hour show, he played Call Me In the Day, a track by the surfer noir rock band from Los Angeles La Luz, and then observed how the chord changes were similar to a much older song, Baby It’s You, written by Burt Bacharach. ![]() But it is also a marvellous way to learn about both contemporary as well as classic rock and pop music. Iggy Confidential is, in fact, a demonstration of what Pop means when he says his secret elixir for staying young is discovering new music. Amazingly, the septuagenarian is able to scour the scene and dig out some astonishingly good new acts-and his wry, often insightful comments make it a delightful listen.Īlso read: The top 25 TV shows since streaming came to India That show, each past episode of which is available for a limited number of days online, is Iggy Pop’s biggest current influence on listeners as well as new bands. Since 2015, Pop has been hosting a Friday night show on BBC where he serves up a cocktail of music-old and, of course, in keeping with his quest for discovery, new. His influence on musicians and fans continues, notably with some of his offstage projects. More recently, he has collaborated with the likes of Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, and has ventured into projects such as an adaptation of the poet Dylan Thomas’ work. What’s more, the reincarnation influenced yet another breed of young bands, including Nirvana, R.E.M. In the later phases of his career, Pop reinvented himself as an exponent of post-punk, new wave and hard rock. But an encounter (followed by a collaboration) with British rock star David Bowie restarted his career-and he hasn’t looked back since. Later, Pop succumbed to the rock scene’s darker aspects: addiction and burnout. It was only later that The Stooges’ music-particularly The Stooges, Fun House and Raw Power, released between 1969-73-became tremendously influential and, in many ways, triggered the birth of punk. They were loud and raucous he and his band hardly conformed to what was considered “cool”. At the time-an era of anti-war protests, psychedelia, and the hippie movement’s mantra to “turn on, tune in, drop out”-Pop and his band were quite out of place. When he broke on to the scene with his band, The Stooges, in the late 1960s, they set the stage for the emergence of punk in the 1970s. Discovering new music opens my mind and the element of surprise keeps me connected.”Īlso read: Three bands and a post-Brexit trend in British rock He is quoted as saying: “I keep reading that we decline in our 70s so I try to keep using my brain. In a 17 September interview with The Guardian, Pop gives the credit to his constant quest for new music. He certainly seems to have found the secret to staying young. Last month, when musicians paid collective tribute to The Velvet Underground by covering all the songs on their 1967 debut, The Velvet Underground & Nico, Pop sang a version of European Son that was so virulently punk that it even put the fine original Lou Reed-sung version in the shade. Iggy Pop, the American punk pioneer who has become an icon for generations of musicians and fans, turned 74 this year but his verve and vitality seem as indestructible as they were in the 1960s.
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