Biography
In April 2017, the main Friton and the Bessenger, the nap of alternative rock Iggy Pop celebrated the 70th birthday. Years of the man do not take - the same frantically jumps on the scene. The path to the glory from the outcast musician was a crimson and a thorny, only in the 90s, finally received long-awaited recognition in the big show business. Now, the Person has increased attention of the press, even shoots films: In 2016, the audience saw the history of the musician and his "The Stoges" group in the documentary picture "Gimme Danger".Childhood and youth
The real name of Iggy Pop is James Newell Osterberg. The future musician, in the pedigree of which - traces of the British, Norwegians and Irish, was born in Masguon (Michigan state), and his childhood spent in the trailer park of Ipsilanti. Among the residents of the parking lot only the parents of Iggy had a higher education.
The dream of a musical career awoke unexpectedly, thanks to Frank Sinatre and Father - a Russian teacher at school, a basketball team coach. One day, the father was driving a boy in "Cadillac" at speeds on the highway and sang together with the legendary voice of America, broken from the radio, "dreams come true if you are young with hearts." Later, in the autobiography, published in 1982, the musician admitted that he liked to listen to the sounds of the electric shaver and the conveyor at the factory fascinating with their monotony.
Parents encouraged the creative gusts of the child and even lost their bedroom, where the Son every weekend worked out the skill at the impact installation. However, soon the dust, the young James decided that the desire is unlikely to be fulfilled, left the intention to certainly become a singer and found a new path, now already associated with politics. Despite this, the children's dream began to turn into reality in high school high school.
Music
Music biography originates from school rock bands in which James was a drummer. The defendant was the team called "The Iguanas", who presented the young man in the nickname of Iggy (abbreviated from Iguana), which he hated. But I had to accept after speaking on the heating of the Blood, Sweat & Tears group. The entire city spoke about the talented guys, the number of fans increased dramatically, and the local newspaper published an article with flattering estimates to the speech. In the publication of the musician called Iggy.
"I attached a small" pop "at the end. It took me thirty years to turn this name into what I wanted, "he recalled.Admission to the University of Michigan coincided with the beginning of work in the group "The Prime Movers", where the future star acquainted with blues. Studying this direction inspired so much that Iggy threw an educational institution and went to Chicago. Soon the light saw his first group - "Psychedelic Stooges", consisting of a guitarist Ron Ashton, Drummer Scott Ashton and Basist Dave Alexander. Iggy Pop took on the role of vocalist.
In 1967, a landmark event happened, after which the musical career began to play with new, bright colors - Iggy visited the concert "The Doors" and was amazed at how Jim Morrison was behaved on the scene. Pop decided that it was time to bring to the speeches of the notch of Extreme, however surpassed the idol: shocked the public with the appearance on the stage in his nude or unbuttoned the shirinka, allowed himself to insult the audience, fought, strained himself to blood, imitated sexual acts and used heroin. At the same time, Iggy created Steak Javing - a jump in the crowd, afterwards only lazy artists of punk groups did not use this technique.
In 1968, the name of the group of Iggy Bas lost the first word, declining to the "The Stoges", and the debut album recorded on Elektra Records, failed, as the next Disk "Fun House". The team rolled into the abyss also because Iggi faded to heroin tightly. The group eventually broke up.
In the early 1970s, Iggy gained a new friend - British rock singer David Bowie, with whom the hand in hand will pass for many years, buddies, including the passion for drugs. David took up the producing of the ass in England, "The Stoges" again comes to life, only in another composition, tours a lot and releases the Raw Power plate. However, the turbulent activity again sued no due to the drug addiction. The last concert ended with a fight with bikers, which even entered the album "Metallic K.O.".
The Creative Way of Iggy Popes changed the trajectory in 1976 - the musician accepts the bowie proposal to participate in large-scale tour, called the "Station to Station". The tour ended with the relocation of friends from the United States to Germany, where a year later, Iggy began a solo career. David helped create a buddy two new albums, including, put his hand to the songs "China Girl", "Tonight" and "Sister Midnight". The creativity of Iggy began to trace an electronic music.
One of the most famous songs of Iggy Popes was born in Berlin - "Passenger". According to the legend, poems on the composition were written in the metro, and the art picture of Michelangelo Antonione with the same name was inspired by the inspiration. Authorship of music belongs to Ricky Gardiner, and the melody and poems existed separately. Only at the meeting of the musicians it became clear that creations were created for each other.
Pop did not let the idea of reviving the group, and the next attempt fell for 1979. Iggy returned to the United States and released the album "New Values", however, despite the high evaluations of critics and a warm welcome in the circles of fans, the plate did not achieve success. She was best taken in Australia, where the musician went on tour and gave one of the brightest in his biography of concerts. The following speeches in this country collected an unthinkable amount of fans.
Three subsequent albums also turned out to be commercially unsuccessful. Financial problems grew up like a snowball, sighing freely helps recorded on Bowie's songs, Iggy even took a break in a musical career for three years. During the rest, he learned the acting skills, married, passed a course of treatment from drug addiction and returned to music with new forces. This time, good luck was the album "BlaH Blah Blah", took a place in the tops of world charts, and from the point of view of commercial success he broke all records. Until now, no musician can reach Iggy in this sense.
In 1988, Iggy Pros waited for another breakthrough thanks to the Instinct plate, in which the musician returns to heavy guitar sound. The album produced a furor in the community of punks and rockers who did not expect such power.
The last decade of the 20th century Pop met the "Brick by Brick" record, which won the status of gold and collaboration with Kate Pearson (The B-52's group), Duff and Slash McCagan (Guns N 'Roses group). Pressure to the mouth of Iggy moved to their clips. In 1991, there is a scandalous video for the song "Kiss My Blood", in which the musician appears naked.
In a two-thousand star continues to lead a stormy concert life, he records solo albums and records together with colleagues in the workshop. Works with groups "Green Day", "The Trills", "Peaches" and others are published. In 2007, the next attempt to revive the "The Stoges", the team managed to hold out a couple of years, but with the death of a guitarist Ron Eshton, she again overtook death. But in 2010, the long-suffering group finally took the honorable place in the hall of the Glory of Rock and Rola.
With the life of Iggy, two books introduce. Back in 1980, a musician told about his path (and illustrated with black and white photos) in the autobiography "I Need More", the authorship with him was divided by Ann Uhecher, Messenate from Michigan. And after 23 years, they published the full biography of Iggy.
Films
Iggy became famous not only thanks to the music. From the mid-1980, the ass went to the cinema - on the account of the star 17 films and five serials. Among them "Snow Day", "Color of Money", "Plaks". And the soundtracks to some paintings ascended a man to the top of popularity.So, the song "The Machine of Death" from the film Emir Kusturica "Arizona Dream", published in 1993, still at all on the lips. The composition of Iggy took off the video, which is generously seasoned frames from the film. Two years later, I waited for another success, after the release of the cult film "On the needle", where Iggy performed the song "Lust for Life".
Iggy Pop wrote compositions for computer games, voiced cartoons, starred in animated series and documentary films dedicated to musicians.
Personal life
Iggy - a drug addict with experience, several times went to the treatment at the clinic. For the first time replenished the ranks of patients of the psychiatric hospital after the second collapse of the "The Stoges" group. One of the few who supported the musician was David Bowie - visited a friend, but sometimes, together with the necessary things and products, brought cocaine. Even the main purpose of the trip to Berlin was the decision to get rid of uncontrolled drug addiction.
By the way, the first experience of using psychotropic drugs Iggy received in early childhood. The future musician suffered from asthma, and the doctors prescribed the quadranol medicine based on Ephedrine.
Pop managed to marry three times. The first spouse - Wendy Weisberg - appeared when the musician was 21 years old, but the marriage lasted for a short time. The reason for the collapse of the pair was the night compositions of compositions, during which the husband did not shy to use the amplifier to the full power.
The second official wife of Iggy became the actress Sachi Asano, the acquaintance happened at a concert in Tokyo, since then the couple has not parted 16 years. Pop called his spouse to his guardian angel. For the third time, a man went under a crown with Nina Allu, Static, Piscent Stewardless, younger actor for 25 years. At Iggy is the only son of Eric, appeared in 1970 from the extramarital connection with the young Flying Benson.
On the trips of the artist accompanies an unusual friend - a teddy colorful rabbit, a toy patiently "listens" the spiritual outpour of the owner.
Iggy Pop now
The musician, despite the old age, pleases fans with access to a large scene and new albums. POST POP Depression record, recorded in 2016 with Josh Homma, the leader of the Queens of the Stone Age group, had a stunning commercial success. Soon Iggy Pop will appear in Moscow - the Grand Concert will be held on October 19, in the club "Stadium".
Now Iggy is no longer the fans and journalists joke. Although the speeches are still crazy and booty, but the artist failed with drugs forever - for more than 20 years the musician has not touched the heroine and cocaine, does not even drink alcohol.
Discography
- 1969 - "The Stoges"
- 1970 - "FUN HOUSE"
- 1973 - "Raw Power"
- 1975 - "Kill City"
- 1976 - "Metallic K.O."
- 1977 - "The iDiot"
- 1977 - "LUST FOR LIFE"
- 1979 - "NEW VALUES"
- 1980 - "SOLDIER"
- 1981 - "Party"
- 1982 - "Zombie Birdhouse"
- 1986 - "BlaH Blah Blah"
- 1988 - "Instinct"
- 1990 - "Brick by Brick"
- 1993 - "American Caesar"
- 1995 - "Open Up and Bleed"
- 1996 - "Naughty Little Doggie"
- 1999 - "Avenue B"
- 2001 - "BEAT 'EM UP"
- 2003 - Skull Ring
- 2005 - "Telluric Chaos"
- 2007 - "The Weirdness"
- 2009 - "Preliminaires"
- 2012 - "Après"
- 2013 - "READY TO DIE"
- 2016 - "POST POP DEPRESSION"