So here’s me browsing through some pictures I’ve downloaded to pick some out for the Important Images department, and I come across this:
Hmmmmmm, says I. I don’t know what the squiggly graphic is, nor who the young lady might be, but that male character at bottom right looks oddly like Iggy Pop…
..and that would be, evidently, because it IS Iggy Pop. I don’t know why but I was put in mind of this photoshoot of this early 1971 incarnation of the band, with messrs S. Asheton, Recca, R. Asheton and Williamson lurking menacingly behind Mr. Osterberg who appears to be attempting jazz hands but can’t get quite get them upright. Wonder how he ended up on the cover of this thing? Did the illustrator somehow see this particular photo and think Iggy looked like he was doing some sort of magical gesture or something? Cos I know Iggy was experimenting with a bunch of things at that time, but I never thought the occult was one of them…
I mean… really. It was good to see uncle Jim make it to his 76th birthday last week, but it remains astonishing that he’s still here to have celebrated it (and in relatively good shape, too, all things considered)…
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