Iggy Pop’s biography of The Stooges to be released by Jack White’s Third Man Books


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The story of The Stooges and their major part in the birth of punk will be told directly from the point of view of Iggy Pop for the first time later this year.

It’s Jack White‘s Third Man Books who’ll be putting the book out in the winter, after music historian Jeff Gold and contributor Johan Kugelberg spent two days interviewing Iggy for TOTAL CHAOS: The Story of The Stooges / As Told by Iggy Pop.

“It was a rare privilege to sit with Iggy as he downloaded the story of The Stooges,” Gold has said. “He’s an incredible storyteller with a fantastic memory and a great sense of humor, and he held nothing back.”

“The Stooges were pioneers in sound, look, and live presentation, and along the way invented a genre-punk rock-and influenced countless others that followed. There was no precedent in rock music for what they did.”

Meanwhile, Iggy Pop was on Jimmy Kimmel’s US talk show this week with Josh Homme for a performance of ‘Sunday‘. Take a look:


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