Nick Kent, one of rock's finest observers, who has known and frequented Iggy Pop for fifty years, says that at one point the singer, under the influence of drugs, flirted with schizophrenia.
Luckily for us, the hero of this unpublished documentary,
Tell Me Iggy
, available on MyCanal from today, stopped being intoxicated a long time ago.
And he seems to live his schizophrenia in the most harmonious way.
Judging by the extreme contrast between the stage images, which show him in almost daze, and the calm that shines through when he answers Antoine de Caunes' questions in the tranquility of his house in Miami.
Nick Kent adds: “
He is one of the greatest stage beasts of the 20th century, along with James Brown, Mick Jagger and Prince
.
We can not say it better.
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