Punk pioneer Iggy Pop has taken his new solo album, a
French-flavoured line-up of cover songs, straight to his fans online,
shunning record majors convinced it would be a flop.
“They would have preferred that I do a rock album with popular punks,
sort of like ‘Hi Dad!’ I was not going to do that!” the 65-year-old
American quipped at a press conference for the record launch in Paris on
Wednesday.
“What has a record company ever done for me but humiliate and torment
and drag me down?” the sinewy rocker said of his move to sell it online
in CD and download forms.
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