Iggy Pop rejected calls from the Grammys for years.
The previous Stooges frontman was lastly honoured with the Lifetime Achievement prize on the 2020 Grammy Awards, however he has admitted he refused to talk to Grammys bosses as a result of he did not wish to be “an exhibit of their museum”.
He informed Traditional Rock journal of the accolade and The Stooges making it into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame in 2010: “Issues modified and society met me midway.
“The Grammys stored wanting to speak to me on the telephone and I stored telling my supervisor: ‘I do not wish to discuss to them. I hate these individuals. They need me to be an exhibit of their museum or one thing.’
“Then once I lastly spoke to the woman from the Grammys a few months later she stated: ‘We’re supplying you with the Lifetime Achievement.
With out you, there is no Lil Nas X and there is no Billie Eilish.’
“In keeping with her, ‘You are a direct hyperlink to the artists which might be on the prime of our awards listing this yr.’
“So that is what one particular person needed to say, and I will take that for what it is value.”
In the meantime, Iggy simply revealed he was virtually in AC/DC.
The 75-year-old punk star – whose actual title is James Newell Osterberg, Jr – claimed that he may have been a part of the rock band alongside the likes of Angus Younger, Malcolm Younger, Phil Rudd, Cliff Williams, Brian Johnson, and Stevie Younger however was uncertain how he would “match into” their type of music.
He stated: “That they had a supervisor a few years in the past, once I hadn’t reformed The Stooges, I hadn’t moved to England. And this man stated, ‘Are you interested by becoming a member of AC/DC?’ They had been searching for a singer. I listened to their document. I believed, I can’t match that invoice,I wasn’t, like, ‘Ugh, I don’t like them.’ It was fairly properly made. They do cautious work, however I’m not what they wanted.”
The ‘Lust for Life’ hitmaker went on so as to add that he did cross paths with the late Bon Scott – who was the lead singer of AC/DC from 1974 till his demise in 1980 on the age of 33 – though he nonetheless struggles to recollect the circumstances of their assembly as a result of they had been so drunk.
He informed The New York Instances: “I had some great encounter with Bon someplace, and we had been each drunk and stoned. I see footage generally. I am going, I don’t bear in mind, however that’s me with Bon. I cherished what he did.”
