Pressing the Flesh With Iggy Pop: My Encounter With the Godfather of Punk in 1977

Fresh from his year in Berlin with Bowie, you'll never guess where I met the living legend.

They say never meet your heroes, but when given the opportunity by a friend in 1977, I couldn’t turn this one down. By the time I met Iggy Pop, legendary Godfather of Punk and Rock’n’Roll Hall of Famer (with his late ‘60s-early ‘70s band, the Stooges, 2010), I had already spent hours with other punk cornerstones, the New York Dolls and the Ramones.

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