No sense of crime iggy pop biography

Angst, alongside necessity, is typically the mother of invention, but in too many cases, those artists deemed to live on the edge were only suffering from a bad hangover.

Iggy Pop, however, began recording these songs while on day release from the Neuropsychiatric Ward of UCLA.

It was Iggy’s decision at least. He may have been a depleted, suicidal heroin addict after the release of Raw Power in 1973, but he wasn’t insane.

And what became Kill City (recorded in 1975, released in 1977) never resembled the work of a man seceding responsibility to his new medication. In fact, this is his most underrated album (true, partly because it’s never been on CD before).

In its rough snapshot of personal disarray (he’d yet to work with David Bowie, though his would-be saviour did visit him in hospital) tied to a more R&B-raunchy trajectory than The Stooges’ garage-punk meltdown – in partnership wit