Talk:Iggy Pop

O'keefe Remark

I just had to modify the reference to Johnny O'Keefe's seminal "Real Wild Child" although O'Keefe popularized the song in Australia he did not write it.-the original was by "IVAN" which was former Crickets minus Buddy Holly. Astrocloud 05:34, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Older Comments

Has anyone actually read this article all the way through? It is in dire need of clean up and re-organization.

Seems to me the speech mentionned was actually from the CBC's "90 Minutes Live" program hosted by Peter Gzowski (original broadcast date March 11th 1977)

--- E.g. neither "Lust for life" nor "The Passenger" were written specifically for the Trainspotting soundtrack but years before and in Lust's case not even by Iggy himself... --Ft. Jack Hackett 18:32, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

The previous version of the article transribed the interview with Iggy saying "I don't know if Johnny rots". After listening to this interview twice I am convinced that this is wrong... Iggy clearly pronounces 'Rotten' and not rots...

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The article says: "In 2003, having enjoyed working with Ron and Scott Asheton on Skull Ring, Iggy reformed the Stooges with bassist Mike Watt (formerly of Social Distortion) . . ."

Isn't Mike Watt a founding member (and former member) of the Minutemen (as well as a solo artist), but not a former member of Social Distortion?

A quick glance at the Wikipedia Social Distortion article doesn't mention Mr Watt as a member of that orchestra. Also, I listened to lots of Minutemen songs, and the notes say the bass player was Mike Watt.

But hey I've been wrong before . . .

cheers, and may God bless you,Iggy Pop, and all the fans.

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The Social Distortion thing was an egregious mistake that I corrected.

Also, I deleted the small entry of Skull Ring as an album with "Various Artists" since it stated that it was also a solo album and also listed it as a solo album. Seemed really redundant and unecessary.

he didn't adampt his name to iggy stooge that's what Danny Fields put on the first album iggy didn't want to be called that

Please sign your comments with four tildes (~)BauerPower 18:09, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

I can't find what and where that refers to. I ASSUME that what is being said above is that someone had included "Iggy Stooge" but someone else removed that because Iggy didn't wish to be called that? Whether Iggy liked it or not, he WAS called Iggy Stooge and known as that for years, both by fans and the press. This is an encyclopedia, not a piece about what a star intended. It should be mentioned somewhere in that article that Iggy was called that, even if the line says "by mistake" or "against his wishes" or whatever. But I don't wish to get into some editing conflict, if this has already unsuccessfully been tried before. IanHistor 23:19, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

RCA Test Presiing Info wanted

Hi there! Can anyone help me? I have an original RCA test pressing LP with the Catalogue Number PL 12275. It has IGGY POP scribed on the 'run-off' area of the record (both sides). I would like to know if the title the album was released under or if it was released at all. Thanx. Steve B. Please feel free to e-mail s.w.bennett@btinternet.com.

Jewish?

Hi there,

Is Iggy Pop Jewish?

The article about him in the Hebrew Wikipedia says that he's Jewish, which seemed rather dubious to me, so i googled it and there's only one place that affirms it and it's Jew Watch which is not very trustworthy.

Any help?--Amir E. Aharoni 13:03, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

He isn't Jewish at all. However, does anyone have a source that says he's Polish? The IMDB definitely is not reliable Mad Jack 17:28, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

And here is your answer. Thanks to this book bio [1] - Iggy Pop is Irish and English on his father's side (his father was adopted by a Swedish-American family, hence the name) and Danish and Norwegian on his mother's. Cheers... Mad Jack 17:35, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

So what's the answer? You can be Swedish and Jewish at the same time you know... 64.173.240.130 21:19, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Velvet Goldmine connection

"Although Pop had nothing to do with the movie, Ewan McGregor's sexually ambiguous, drug-fuelled character in Velvet Goldmine is considered by most critics to be modelled on him"

I think that needs to be removed, since the vast majority of critics claim that the character is based on David Bowie (which seems even more obvious since Velvet Goldmine is the title of a Ziggy-era Bowie song).

The Velvet Goldmine page says many think it is 'loosely' based on Iggy. BauerPower 18:17, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Punk

It should be noted and quoted somewhere that Iggy Pop is not a fan of the label "punk."

"Iggy"

Is the name "Iggy" not related to the "Iago", the Spanish form of "James"? -- Bobyllib 01:29, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

It stemmed from being a member of an early group named the Iguanas as legend goes.

A Girl Like You

It is funny to see that on some web site a "A Girl Like You" is attributed to Iggy Pop when it belongs to Edwyn Collins

Interesting Trivia

Iggy and the Stooges concert rider currently on display at:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1004061iggypop9.html

Fun reading.

Jake b 03:58, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

58.107.162.179 15:08, 5 October 2006 (UTC)I added the nickname "Molly" to Ian Meldrum. -LetterAfterZ