From Publishers Weekly
It's funny to think of raw rock pioneer and ex-Stooge Iggy Pop—writer of immortal gems like Search and Destroy and I Wanna Be Your Dog—represented by this staid, polite audiobook. Nonetheless, the combination mostly works. After all, what audiobook reader would want to go head to head, energywise, with Iggy Pop? Dufris knows better than to even try, and puts Pop's antics in starker light by studiously avoiding the kind of antics that defined his career. Dufris's 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. While some music would have been nice, in order to flesh out the context of Trynka's biography, this production is solid enough on its own merits. A Broadway hardcover (Reviews, Feb. 19). (Sept.)
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In the last throes of the 1960s, Jim Osterberg, a charming, hyperintelligent, ambitious boy from a trailer park near Ann Arbor, Michigan, teamed up with two miscreant brothers to form the band the Stooges, single-handedly presaging the entire punk, new wave, metal, and alternative rock movements. His alter ego, Iggy Pop, perhaps the greatest rock front man and sex icon ever, was exalted with unbridled enthusiasm on the one hand yet reviled as an abject failure, a joke, and a loser on the other. A true survivor, Iggy Pop is today a respected elder statesman of rock, known as the Godfather of Punk, but his road was famously brutal. Trynka reminds us that this legendary shamanic performer, epitomized as the ultimate rock 'n' roll god, is a human being who struggled with the distinction between Jim, the sensitive poet, and Iggy, the outlandish child-man who must outdo himself at every turn. This fitting biography from a former editor of Mojo magazine finally tells the full story of Iggy's life, rescuing coherence from a tale of thrills, contradictions, debauchery, betrayal, and (ultimately) redemption. David Siegfried
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