In a party at Max’s Kansas City, Iggy Pop met a young British musician named David Bowie who would become one of Iggy’s lifelong friends. He met up with fan and proto-punk icon Lou Reed who was helping Iggy try to score the deal that would change his life.
After the Stooges disbanded, Iggy went back home to Ann Arbor, Michigan where he cleaned himself on heroin with methadone and wrote some songs with Stooges guitarist James Williamson.Īfter regaining his health in late 1971, Iggy decided to go to New York City to score a record deal. Drug abuse, poor album sales, and boredom drove the Stooges to break up as singer Iggy Pop’s heroin addiction was taking its toll. For the Detroit proto-punk band the Stooges, the 70s started on a down note after making two influential albums that would provide the blueprint for punk rock that would come to realization in the mid-70s.
The 1970s would hail as a new era in rock n’ roll where the rules would be broken by bands and artists who wanted to challenge people perceptions on how rock music can sound like.
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Those famous words by Phillip Seymour Hoffman as legendary rock critic Lester Bangs in the movie “Almost Famous” says it all about one of the greatest rock albums ever made, the Stooges “Raw Power”.Īs the 1970s arrived, the psychedelic indulgence of the 1960s was on its way to fade into history.
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