5/1/2023 0 Comments Iggy pop age![]() I wonder how you think experiencing those class differences and those wealth gaps, did that set some kind of sense of mission? Some kind of sense of the way you wanted to intervene in society as you grew up? Your dad was a high school teacher and you lived in the trailer park outside Ypsilanti. Looking back to that time in Ypsilanti in Michigan growing up, one of the things about it, you were living just outside of a wealthier community in the community of Ann Arbor and gradually over the course of your life mixing more as you get older, going to the high school with the rich kids from the street. You have to have a weird name now to be in show biz. It’s more like this in the ’60s and early ’70s, boy, if you said the name Iggy in a room full of butch Americans, there was disgust in the room. It’s not so much all that psychological crap. Now it’s like, call me Iggy.ĭoes it feel like it’s been a struggle sometimes to reconcile that? I think that Jim is a quieter person in a lot of ways than Iggy is. It’s gotten to the point where I’ve been Iggy and Jim longer than I was just Jim. ![]() I remember the first time I was intimate with somebody, and they went, “Iggy, Iggy, Iggy.” I had to get used to it. I would walk into town every Tuesday to see if it was in the window at the store. When my first record came out, I had no business sense whatsoever. When I was about 19 years old, the nickname, Iggy, got hung on me. I was born Jim Osterberg in Michigan in 1947. How much is Iggy a character or a persona to you and how much is it something completely integrated for you? I bring that up partly because I always wonder how much you feel like there’s a separation between the two sides. Iggy, when I was preparing for this, one of the things I wondered was whether in a casual conversation, I should call you Jim or Iggy. We’ll all struggle through together somehow. J'ai une connaissance de quelques mots, des phrases mais. I’m not sure how well your capacity for taking questions en français is. ![]() I should apologize in advance that I’m not able to translate. After that, we’re going to invite you, there’ll be microphones in the aisles. I feel better than I did a minute ago.Įverybody, we’re going to talk for 45 minutes to an hour, depending on Iggy’s gift of gab. Here with us tonight, everyone please welcome Iggy Pop. The man who introduced himself to the world singing, “It’s 1969 baby,” is now 69, baby, still standing. ![]()
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