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Category Archives: Iggy Pop
More Album Cover Outtakes
Artist Charles Burns’ cover for Iggy Pop’s 1990 LP Brick By Brick included references to many of the album’s songs, a joint-smoking Kate Pierson, even Roy Orbison! Iggy Pop’s solo career had become something of a hit and miss affair … Continue reading
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Iggy Pop / David Bowie Collaborations in 16 Tracks
Iggy Pop and David Bowie were strong musical partners throughout the ’70s and ’80s, and this 16-track compilation provides an insight into the depth and breadth of their collaborations and friendship. “Some bands do Stones. Some bands do Chuck Berry. … Continue reading
Bowie – Deep Cuts Pt.3
Continuing the Bowie Deep Cuts series, Part 3 reveals alternative mixes, unearthed demos, live versions, and album tracks, finding the artist stretching out, yielding some interesting results. David Bowie – Deep Cuts Pt.3 mp3 TRACKS 1. Right On Mother – Recorded … Continue reading
Sound & Vision | Bowie’s Album Covers Ranked
From the 1967 self-titled debut to his final masterpiece Blackstar, The Press puts their spin on the album artwork of every David Bowie album, including some honourable (and dishonourable) mentions. Bowie’s albums were never just about the music. They concurrently … Continue reading
Posted in Album Covers, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Frank Zappa, Iggy Pop, Images, Kinks, The, Mick Rock, Mick Ronson, Mott the Hoople, Robert Fripp, T.Rex
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Top 5 Songs – The Sales Brothers
Born into show business, hired guns Tony and his brother Hunt Sales were the rhythm section and driving force behind some key moments in rock history. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, bassist Tony and drummer Hunt’s father was well known comedian … Continue reading
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The Unstable Boys | Nick Kent
Now Reading: legendary rock journalist Nick Kent pens his first novel The Unstable Boys, a darkly comic caper about the strange afterlife of a briefly famous 60s rock group of the same name. Author of two of the best rock … Continue reading
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Bowie – Deep Cuts Pt.2
On what would’ve been the great man’s 75th birthday, The Press brings you Part 2 of our Bowie Deep Cuts series, collecting some interesting mixes, demos, live versions, and album tracks. David Bowie – Deep Cuts Pt.2 mp3 TRACKS 1. … Continue reading
RIP Mick Rock
Mick Rock, who captured iconic images of artists including David Bowie, Lou Reed, Queen, Iggy Pop and more, has died, aged 72. A photographic poet and The Man Who Shot The 70s he created some of the most magnificent photographs … Continue reading
Posted in Album Covers, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Images, Lou Reed, Mainman, Mick Rock, Mott the Hoople, Queen
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Bowie and Egon Schiele
The composition for David Bowie’s Lodger album cover reflected the influence of Egon Schiele’s Self-Portrait as Saint Sebastian (1914). A major figurative painter of the early 20th century, Egon Schiele’s (1890-1918) work is known for its anguished eroticism, explicit sexuality and raw … Continue reading
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Bowie – Deep Cuts Pt.1
We all know about comfort food but what about comfort music? Look no further, this Bowie collection of different mixes, demos versions, and album Deep Cuts acts fast to provide immediate soothing relief to get you through whatever life throws … Continue reading
Ziggy Played Guitar
This newly unearthed photograph of David Bowie with a red Zemaitis Stratocaster was taken by legendary producer Tony Visconti in the old Haddon Hall wine cellar in early 1970, pointing the way to the electric glam-rock that would make Bowie … Continue reading
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Adrian Belew Meets David Bowie
Guitarist par excellence Adrian Belew was discovered by Frank Zappa in a small club in Nashville, only to be poached by David Bowie for a globe-straddling tour. The Press has the lowdown. The extraordinarily inventive Belew caught the eye of … Continue reading
Posted in Adrian Belew, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Neu!, Robert Fripp, Talking Heads
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#14: Lou Reed – Rock n Roll Animal (1974) / Live (1975)
Here at The Press we look at expansive double albums and trim it back to a single, filler-free listening experience. In the case of Lou Reed’s scary ’73 glam-phetamine performance, brashly released as two single live LPs in the mid-70s, … Continue reading
Rediscover Live Music: Top 20 Live Albums
Live music has been in short supply, so now is a good time to take a double-gatefold look at 20 of the greatest live LP’s of yesteryear to atone for all the cancelled gigs we were supposed to see. What … Continue reading
Posted in Allman Brothers, The, Band, The, Bill Evans, Birthday Party, The, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Doors, The, Gigs, Ian Hunter, Iggy Pop, Jane's Addiction, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Lou Reed, Miles Davis, Neil Young, Rolling Stones, The, Stooges, The, Talking Heads, Thin Lizzy, Top 20 Live Albums, Velvet Underground, The, Who, The, Wilco
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MainMan Podcast
MainMan are compiling a fascinating series exploring the history of the record label, which was a rights management organisation formed by entrepreneur and impresario Tony Defries that helped to develop the careers of many artistes including Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, … Continue reading
Posted in David Bowie, Downloads, European Rock Pilgrimage, Ian Hunter, Iggy Pop, Images, Lou Reed, Mainman, Mick Rock, Mick Ronson, Podcasts
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Bowie’s Pin Ups
Two Hours Of ‘Original’ Songs David Bowie Covered In His Early Career. In a very special episode of Beat Orgy, RRR’s Steve Cross takes us through the original versions of the songs that David Bowie covered through his golden period … Continue reading
David Bowie – “Heroes”
“Heroes” was released 43 years ago today by RCA Records and is arguably Bowie’s artistic zenith. The only album to be recorded entirely in Berlin, “Heroes” is stylistically similar in structure to Low, although has a fuller and more chaotic overall sound, … Continue reading
Berlin
Welcome to the European Rock Pilgrimage (also known as my family holiday February 2020 including something of a celebration for a significant birthday milestone, but more about that later) where I’ve managed to visit some of my favourite ever rock … Continue reading
Posted in David Bowie, European Rock Pilgrimage, Iggy Pop
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Iggy Pop – Top 50 Songs
“I’ll tell you about punk rock: punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and, uh… and, uh… heartless manipulators, about music… that takes up the energies, and the bodies, and the hearts and the souls and the time and the minds, of young men, who give what they have … Continue reading
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Iggy 1969
Iggy recording the first self-titled Stooges album. That’s producer John Cale in the control booth.
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Iggy’s Bowie Playlist
Iggy Pop dedicated the latest episode of his BBC Radio 6 show Iggy Confidential to his late friend and collaborator David Bowie, spinning two hours of his favorite Bowie songs and reminiscing about their times together. “The way I chose them was … Continue reading
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#24: Iggy Pop – Soldier (1980)
When the Stooges were dropped by their record label for the last time after the final rock and roll apocalypse of Raw Power, Iggy Pop – drug-addled and homeless in LA – reconvened with guitarist James Williamson to record a blistering yet largely … Continue reading