· Screen: 4:3 · Sound: Stereo Dolby · PAL · FSK: free · Region: all zones Style: Hard Rock Format: DVD   :: Information Choice of language:  Iggy Pop, born James Osterbeg in Muskegan, somewhere in Michigan, started his musical career as drummer in a band called "The Iguanas" in 1965, but soon he realized that the best job in a band is the singer. So 1969 he created "The Stooges" and within two albums, named "The Stooges" and "Fun House", Iggy became an icon of a generation fed up with the sixties and the hippie - era. Untill the bands death in 1975 and with Iggys’ slide into hard drugs, the shows became more hardcore and more violent. This led to the "Raw Power" - LP, which was very drug influenced but the first successful colaboration with David Bowie. After the Stooges, in the beginning of the punk movement, Iggy had no band and no record contract, because he scared too many people with his behavior. Again David Bowie gave him a chance - the chance to do his first solo album "The Idiot". Songs that remained as disturbing as the ones on the Stooges albums, but with a different sound. It took long to record the tracks, because Iggy was lazy after the health smashing post Stooges years, but the album was so successful that Bowie decided it to be the first album of a trilogy. After "The Idiot" came "Lust For Life" and then "TV Eyes Live 77", which was thought to be another studio album. This could possibly have been the end of the colaboration between Iggy and Bowie, but due to the condition that Bowies accountants had paid Iggy too much royalties, which he of course refused to give back, an agreement had to be made. Which was: David Bowie would produce the "BlahBlahBlah" - album. And again Bowie gave another boost to Iggys’ career. From 1978 to 1983 Iggy recorded several albums, each time with different musicians and only with little sucess. So in 1983 he was in the same situation he was in when The Stooges split. The same year David Bowie released his new album; amongst the tracks was a song called "China Girl", written by Iggy for the "The Idiot" album in 1976. When the single was released the song became a gigantic hit worldwide and Iggy had, for the first time in life, so much money he didn’t know what to do with it. 1986 he cut the cord linking him to Bowie. From October ’86 to July ’87 he played about 300 concerts and after that tour he decided to take a one year break. When "Instinct" came out, people were knocked out , because they thought that Iggy had settled down or at least had been washed out after his marathon tour. But "the Iguana" was back, hotter than hell and even more violent than on the "Raw Power" album. The tour that followed was the best since the "Lust For Life" tour in ’77. 1990 he released "Brick By Brick" and for the following tour he chose the band of his son Eric. The Olympia concert hall in Paris, which Iggy chose to tear eardrums apart, was so crowded that many of the people who were actually there, really had the chance to see the show when the video came out. Here is your chance to see Iggy Pop, on the Olympia’s stage, perfoming his show in a way only he can do...