From the time The Stooges first broke onto the music scene in 1967, Iggy Pop was rock’s most remarkable one-man freak show, but by the mid-’70s, after The Stooges’ messy collapse, Iggy found himself in need of a stable career. The rise of punk rock finally created a context in which Iggy’s crash-and-burn theatrics seemed like inspired performance rather than some sort of cry for help, and in 1979, with everyone who was anyone name-checking Iggy as punk’s Founding Father, he scored a deal with Arista Records, and New Values became his first recording since the new rock gained a Read more on Last.fm.
