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May 1, 2007 by Mary Wynne-Wynter
Solo’s and small business owners can get disappointed about the amount of time it takes to get results: a client base, income, referrals, etc. Often, the response is to urgently look in the typical places: networking groups, marketing and sales advice, business and financial planners, college coursework and degrees, temporary or permanent jobs, search engine optimization etc. But sometimes its good to look in the absolutely least likely place imaginable, Iggy Pop, for example.
If there were ever a guy who refused to look in any of the supposedly “right” places, its Iggy Pop. No, Iggy Pop does his work and catches the waves. From the BBC Faces of the Week column:
He embodies every excess ever associated with rock stars.
Somehow, the man regarded as the forerunner of the punk movement, has survived drug addiction, self-mutilation, mental disorders and violence.
Add to his life mixture other noxious ingredients including under-age sex, habitual indecent exposure and infidelity, and you just about have the archetypal feral rock star.
According to music journalist Paul Lester: “When you look at the edgy, dark side of rock and roll, when you take away all the myths of books and films or whatever, there are only two people who embody the essence of the rock star – Keith Richards and Iggy Pop. Iggy has sold hardly any records in comparison but he’s the biggest underground star in history.”
Even at 60, Iggy Pop is still diving into his audience, a practice he first began in the 1960s as a way of “connecting” with it.
You don’t need much knowledge of quantum physics or metaphysics to sense that there’s more to how we experience our world than what meets the eye. That includes waves. Just as a surfer in the ocean sits and waits patiently for the wave to arrive, so can we. Just like Iggy Pop. Well..not exactly, but you get the drift.
Faces of the week: Rock’s survivor, Iggy…: “Faces of the week: Rock’s survivor, Iggy Pop, turns 60″
(Via BBC News | Magazine | UK Edition.)
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