Iggy Pop says he was as soon as requested about changing into AC/DC’s singer.
In an expansive interview with the New York Instances selling his new studio album Each Loser, Pop recollects being approached by the supervisor of the Australian arduous rock group in regards to the job.
“They’d a supervisor a few years in the past, once I hadn’t reformed the Stooges, I hadn’t moved to England,” he recalled. “And this man mentioned, ‘Are you curious about becoming a member of AC/DC?’ They had been searching for a singer.”
Pop goes on to clarify that he did not contemplate himself a great match for the job. “I listened to their file. I believed, I am unable to match that invoice. I wasn’t like, ugh, I do not like them. It was fairly effectively made. They do cautious work, however I am not what they wanted.”
The article does not specify when this provide was made. In 1972 Pop relocated to London to file Uncooked Energy with a reconfigured Stooges lineup. That album was launched in February of 1973. AC/DC did not kind till 9 months later and did not launch their first album till 1975’s Excessive Voltage.
After the February 1980 loss of life of Bon Scott, AC/DC is understood to have thought of quite a few candidates to exchange him. They finally selected Brian Johnson, who sang on that 12 months’s Again in Black and has fronted the group ever since.
Pop did meet Scott as soon as – there is a photograph on the web of the singers speaking backstage on the Whiskey in L.A. in 1977, with Pop lined in purple paint. However he does not bear in mind it. “I had some fantastic encounter with Bon someplace, and we had been each drunk and stoned,” he defined. “I see photos generally. I’m going, I do not bear in mind, however that is me with Bon! I liked what he did.”
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