Music
Iggy Pop's upcoming memoir is perfectly titled 'Total Chaos'
by Dan MacRae
April 28, 2016
The Stooges' story will be chronicled in a new book from Jack White's Third Man Records.
Iggy Pop would like to be your dog. That dog? Wishbone. Why? Because the lovable PBS creature is a champion of reading and it just so happens that the 69-year-old proto-punk immortal has a book coming out.
Jack White’s Third Man Books has revealed that Pop (government name: James Newell Osterberg, Jr.) is set to release a memoir titled Total Chaos that will focus on The Stooges. There’s certainly a strong argument to be made that the punk oral history spectacular Please Kill Me covered a good chunk of that ground, but this new book is selling itself on being the first time Pop’s had the full say recounting the Stooges story.
Let’s get to everybody’s favourite bit of book news: The part where promo copy makes an appearance!
Author Jeff Gold and contributor Johan Kugelberg, noted music historians and collectors, spent two days with Pop at his Miami home, sharing with him their extensive Stooges collection and interviewing the legendary singer. Pop’s candid, bare-all responses left them with the almost unbelievable tale of the band he founded—the alternately tragic and triumphant story of a group who rose from youth, fell prey to drugs, alcohol, and music biz realities, collapsed and nearly 30 years later reformed, recording and touring to great acclaim. In 2010 The Stooges, credited with having invented punk rock, were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Their continuing influence can be felt today in the shape and sound of rock-n-roll music.
Total Chaos: The Story of The Stooges / As Told by Iggy Pop is set to arrive this winter. Can’t wait that long? Calm the fuck down! Why not give Pop’s 1997 collection of ‘personal vignettes’ I Need More your attention?
