AUDIOBOOK
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Iggy Pop's legendary career has been tumultuous, reaching great heights, producing mega-hits, while at times hitting rock-bottom lows in jail and mental institutions. Along the way, he's become a cult rock hero, an inspiration for dozens of other famous rockers, and has had a pretty good time of it, too. But the image of Iggy Pop versus the man behind that image, James Newell Osterberg, Jr., are surprisingly contradictory. As the author deftly reveals in this first-ever biography of Iggy, the "nude and rude" punk rocker was the vice-president of his high-school class and is considered an intellectual by many.
Living in Ann Arbor among Iggy's childhood friends and pre-fame lovers and interviewing dozen of musicians including Iggy himself, Trynka has created a sincere and fascinating portrayal of the real man behind the rock star. Prologue: I Never Thought It Would Come To This
Chapter 1. Most Likely To
Chapter 2. Night Of The Iguana
Chapter 3. The Dum Dum Boys
Chapter 4. Oh My, Boo Hoo
Chapter 5. Fun House Pt 1. I Feel All Right
Chapter 6. Fun House Part 2. This Property Is Condemned
Chapter 7. Sleep Walking Cheetah
Chapter 8. She Creatures Of The Hollywood Hills
Chapter 9. Beating A Dead Horse
Chapter 10. Kill City
Chapter 11. The Passenger
Chapter 12. Her Comes My Chinese Rug
Chapter 13. Missing In Action
Chapter 14. The Long, Long Road
Chapter 15. Night Of The Zombies
Chapter 16. Hideaway
Chapter 17. Undefeated
Chapter 18. The Reptile House
"There's plenty of detail on the creative process behind Iggy's music...but inevitably, the best parts are the blackly funny tales of Iggy at his worst."
"When you strip away all the nonsense, Iggy is a pro. Trynka too."
"An obsessively detailed and compulsively readable biography that is as high-energy and entertaining as its subject."
"Dufris' voice is invested with meticulousness, weighing each word carefully and swooping to a near-baritone halt at the close of each sentence. Dufris is the anti-Iggy, polite and modulated, and it is his counterexample that allows the light to shine more brightly on Pop himself."
"[Trynka] deftly walks the line between fan boy and dogged researcher…This is the definitive word on Iggy, elbowing past even his autobiography."
"The author's love for a flawed-but-deep-down-okay dude, plus his amazing eye for detail, make this one of the finest rock bios of recent memory: Music and pop culture fans will dig it."
Living in Ann Arbor among Iggy's childhood friends and pre-fame lovers and interviewing dozen of musicians including Iggy himself, Trynka has created a sincere and fascinating portrayal of the real man behind the rock star. Prologue: I Never Thought It Would Come To This
Chapter 1. Most Likely To
Chapter 2. Night Of The Iguana
Chapter 3. The Dum Dum Boys
Chapter 4. Oh My, Boo Hoo
Chapter 5. Fun House Pt 1. I Feel All Right
Chapter 6. Fun House Part 2. This Property Is Condemned
Chapter 7. Sleep Walking Cheetah
Chapter 8. She Creatures Of The Hollywood Hills
Chapter 9. Beating A Dead Horse
Chapter 10. Kill City
Chapter 11. The Passenger
Chapter 12. Her Comes My Chinese Rug
Chapter 13. Missing In Action
Chapter 14. The Long, Long Road
Chapter 15. Night Of The Zombies
Chapter 16. Hideaway
Chapter 17. Undefeated
Chapter 18. The Reptile House
"There's plenty of detail on the creative process behind Iggy's music...but inevitably, the best parts are the blackly funny tales of Iggy at his worst."
"When you strip away all the nonsense, Iggy is a pro. Trynka too."
"An obsessively detailed and compulsively readable biography that is as high-energy and entertaining as its subject."
"Dufris' voice is invested with meticulousness, weighing each word carefully and swooping to a near-baritone halt at the close of each sentence. Dufris is the anti-Iggy, polite and modulated, and it is his counterexample that allows the light to shine more brightly on Pop himself."
"[Trynka] deftly walks the line between fan boy and dogged researcher…This is the definitive word on Iggy, elbowing past even his autobiography."
"The author's love for a flawed-but-deep-down-okay dude, plus his amazing eye for detail, make this one of the finest rock bios of recent memory: Music and pop culture fans will dig it."