I’m an Idiot for you…
You may have already stumbled upon Marc Riley‘s splendid new Radio 2 mini-series:
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Marc Riley dips into the BBC’s archives and unearths seminal and tantalising rock interviews.
It’s funny how things can look so different many years down the line; once the dust has settled, tempers have calmed and much water has gone under the bridge. Not seeking to open old wounds or anything, Marc Riley goes back in time to the turning points in the careers of some of the biggest artists in music to check out exactly what they DID say in the heat of the moment, and to put it into today’s context ….
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You may want to tune in to the last two instalments of the six shows.
Tonight’s archive interview is from December 1976 when Stuart Grundy met Iggy Pop to talk over his past and his then recent work with David Bowie for the upcoming The Idiot album.
Next week is another Stuart Grundy interview, this time with “an exhausted but excitable David Bowie”, a little over ten years later in May 1987 during rehearsals for The Glass Spider Tour at Feyenoord Stadium in Rotterdam, Holland.
Fans of 1977 era Iggy Pop, (and who with a full set of ears couldn’t be?) should keep an eye out for the upcoming