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I love Iggy Pop. I don’t just mean that I love his music �" although listening to the early Stooges albums or Lust for Life remains a source of never-ending pleasure for me �" I mean that the mere mention of his name fills me with a tingling giddy sensation. There are artists with more consistent catalogues or broader emotional ranges, but few, if any, can touch Iggy Pop’s sheer entropic magnetism, a stage presence at once so sexy and scrotum-clenchingly terrifying. This is a man who redefined the art of performance for rock ’n’ roll.

Indeed, perhaps the most gratifying...