Got through this pretty quickly,mainly because i skipped quite a bit of the first 200 or so pages. The reason for this is that because i'm not a big fan of Bowie's early years or even his glam rock period (shock horror i know).My interest in Bowie begins with Young Americans and pretty much ends ...
I enjoyed Paul Trynka's warts and all biography of Iggy Pop and this is an equally worthy assessment of his mentor, peer, friend and inspiration, the uniquely talented boy wonder from Bromley. David Bowie's rise from the Mod psychedelic blues rock scene of late 1960s London to "voice of a generat...
When it comes to The Stooges and their slightly troubled front man Iggy Pop, attempting to separate myth from reality, contextualize it, understand it, and then shape the whole mess into something that doesn’t make you want to grab a razor blade and run a warm bath after reading it, dances a fine...
In New York, Lenny Kaye, a guitarist and writer who had written one of the first positive reviews of the Stooges’ debut album back in 1969, had formed a band with poet Patti Smith - the two of them had gone to visit Iggy and James in the Coronet back in 1974, and the next year had released their ...