The first two sentences we get
from Pop in the book, setting up an
anecdote about how he was once
mistakenly arrested under suspicion
of being a murderer, are these: Yeah,
so when I was in the Stooges a lot of
dumb things used to happen to me.
I remember one night I was sitting
up, just sitting up all night with our
road manager, John Adams, shooting
coke with a hypodermic needle. And
it continues like that. It’s not so much
the excesses that strike a modern-day
reader but the sense of a chaotic life
without a center or a moral compass
or viable path forward.It’s been a long way from there to
here, and there were plenty more
di∞cult years along the way, but now
he is thriving in all kinds of ways:
touring regularly to big crowds, mak-
ing new records, selling old records
(“Stooges’ licensing is through the
roof...”), acting (most recently as a
zombie in Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead
Don’t Die), and, for several years now,
hosting his own weekly radio show,
Iggy Confidential, for BBC6 in the
U.K. (he records it in Miami, where
he has lived for nearly a quarter of a
century). And along the way, Pop has
become aware that he has achieved,Coat, $3,150,
by Berluti.
Shirt, $250,
and pants, $325,
by Rag & Bone.
Necklace, $225,
by David Yurman.
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