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Rock and Pop's (and yes, that might be considered contrived if Rock didn't happen to be the photographer's real name) first encounter was at a vegetarian restaurant in west London where Bowie's management had organised a dinner reception for the visiting American. "I met Bowie in March, 'Starman' was released in April, Ziggy came out in June and I met Iggy in July." "It all happened so quickly," he says from his home in Staten Island, New York. Mick Rock has gained himself a reputation as "The Man Who Shot the Seventies", but the British photographer is quick to point out that, "It's not that I got the best pictures of that time, I got the only pictures of that time." The young modern languages and literature Cambridge graduate had bonded with Bowie over the pictures he had taken of Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett and it was through Bowie that he met Iggy Pop and Lou Reed. That's kind of where I'm heading hopefully. He has done nothing publicly and I think that's great and hats off to him. I think he's probably been doing a hell of a lot over the past 10 years that's none of anybody's business. You know, 'How are you? What have you been doing? Married? Girlfriend? This, that, blah blah blah.' We haven't spoken since. There were a couple of projects but I couldn't do them so we just had a really great chat. Have you spoken to each other recently? "He called me down here about 10 years ago. "I've been working on my own album and I haven't heard it yet, but I'll check it out when I get the chance." But since you mention it, what do you think of "Where Are We Now?".
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Now look, I wasn't going to bring it up, because in the media feeding frenzy following the release of Bowie's comeback single last month every newspaper and magazine in the Western world was trying to hunt down any former musical associate to seek out their opinion. And I have pictures there of me and Lou romping and one of me with the Thin White Duke… you know, pictures from various periods of what I've done. But I've also got a place where I go to be a shit. I live elsewhere, you know I'm married and have a lot of wonderful little animals and things like that. So you can understand the desire to hang this sort of rock art on your walls… "I actually have a small home here that I don't share with anyone. It must have felt like your life was flashing in front of you. It's the dick in the pants not the pants on the dick. I sold them to somebody for dope many years ago." Would you buy them back now you've got a buck or two in your pocket? "Nah. The historical document of this time is Raw Power, the result of a period in Pop's life which he can look back on today and reflect that he was "an awful, nasty, horrible, destructive, self-centred prick with a pair of silver leather pants". I had somebody I wanted to be, a way I wanted to look, and a way I wanted to sound and it had nothing to do with having 10 quid in my pocket." So we were on a mission – partly to get people to get with it and partly to get there ourselves.
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The game was sewed up so that nothing any good could get in.
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These people peddling this horrible showbiz crap.
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"So we were living in Fulham and you'd turn on the TV or radio and I think it was Jimmy Savile, or this succession of awful creeps with insinuating voices, would come on and say, 'Hi mums, here's the new one from Elton' or whatever. Pop and his band, the Stooges, had ended up living in west London because David Bowie, a fan and friend, had encouraged him to try his luck in the UK after Pop had been dropped by the aforementioned Elektra, his American record label. At the time I really felt I had to convert the world, through the sword if necessary, and I was probably going to die one way or another in the process." I'm only now losing a little bit of the kamikaze sense of mission that that person had. It is a bright winter's day in Miami and Pop has agreed to this one interview because Foruli – a British publishing company that has carved out a niche in high-end books on rock'n'roll subjects – is commemorating the 40th anniversary of Raw Power by issuing a set of pictures of Iggy in his pomp, shot by Mick Rock, and hand-signed by the pair of them.Ĭan you still relate to the young man with the burning eyes in those shots? He greets you with a Joey-from-Friends-style "How you doin'?" and – unusual this from a bona-fide rock star – actually waits for an answer. Even now, just a few months shy of his 66th birthday, Iggy Pop is not a man who can be constrained. But Iggy is Iggy and within 15 minutes he has brought up both. He is, his people have insisted, not to mention either David Bowie's recent comeback or the new record he has been working on. It is 40 years since the British photographer Mick Rock shot the images that adorned the front and back covers of the legendary performer's stop-you-in-your-tracks album Raw Power.