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Pop The Apostle
“So much of that which has earned duckets in the rock industry of the late 80s plods. The Smiths did not plod!”
So said Iggy Pop when I interviewed him a few weeks ago. After a cheerful chat about everything from vacuum cleaners to skiing I pressed his thoughts on those brightest of northern lights. Iggy & The Stooges’ 1973 album Raw Power was a major influence on The Smiths; specifically Johnny’s riffs for Hand In Glove (via Gimme Danger) and Never Had No One Ever (via I Need Somebody) while last year Morrissey also chose Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell among his Desert Island Discs.
I wondered if the respect was mutual, and it is. Iggy saw The Smiths play the London Palladium on 26 October 1986.
“A beautiful old theatre with boxes,” Iggy recalled. “It was wonderful. One of those 10 or 12 music shows that I’ve seen in my life that can fulfil the idea of how great it can be.” He added that he “really admired the whole group”, praising Morrissey’s lyrics, Marr’s “incredible use of melody” and deeming Rourke and Joyce “a nice, natural swinging rhythm section.”
It’s not the first time Iggy’s spoken admiringly about Morrissey but it was nonetheless heart-warming to hear from the horse’s mouth (or rather Horse Dick’s mouth) that Pop, too, is an official apostle. According to Iggy, a few years ago Morrissey gave him a birthday present (very possibly the same occasion they were photographed together backstage at a Los Angeles Stooges show in April 2007). It was a DVD which, nearly three years later, Iggy still hasn’t gotten round to watching. “I’m going to watch it this year instead,” he promises (Iggy turns 63 on April 21). And before you ask, no, sadly Iggy couldn’t remember off the top of his head what the film was, only that “it’s still in the shrinkwrap.”
So that was Iggy, every inch as magnificent as I’d hoped. For those interested, the main interview (minus any Smiths chat, which is why I’ve posted it here) is in the next issue of Q.
Until next time, good vibes to all….
from: http://simongoddardwords.blogspot.com/2010/03/pop-apostle.html
“So much of that which has earned duckets in the rock industry of the late 80s plods. The Smiths did not plod!”
I wondered if the respect was mutual, and it is. Iggy saw The Smiths play the London Palladium on 26 October 1986.
“A beautiful old theatre with boxes,” Iggy recalled. “It was wonderful. One of those 10 or 12 music shows that I’ve seen in my life that can fulfil the idea of how great it can be.” He added that he “really admired the whole group”, praising Morrissey’s lyrics, Marr’s “incredible use of melody” and deeming Rourke and Joyce “a nice, natural swinging rhythm section.”
It’s not the first time Iggy’s spoken admiringly about Morrissey but it was nonetheless heart-warming to hear from the horse’s mouth (or rather Horse Dick’s mouth) that Pop, too, is an official apostle. According to Iggy, a few years ago Morrissey gave him a birthday present (very possibly the same occasion they were photographed together backstage at a Los Angeles Stooges show in April 2007). It was a DVD which, nearly three years later, Iggy still hasn’t gotten round to watching. “I’m going to watch it this year instead,” he promises (Iggy turns 63 on April 21). And before you ask, no, sadly Iggy couldn’t remember off the top of his head what the film was, only that “it’s still in the shrinkwrap.”
So that was Iggy, every inch as magnificent as I’d hoped. For those interested, the main interview (minus any Smiths chat, which is why I’ve posted it here) is in the next issue of Q.
Until next time, good vibes to all….
from: http://simongoddardwords.blogspot.com/2010/03/pop-apostle.html
That's just lovely and full of support and oozing love and hope - chin up Laurence!
