A Million In Prizes: The Anthology

Iggy Pop has been kicking the world's collective posterior since his first band, The Stooges, searched and destroyed its way to iconic heights in the late '60s and early '70s.

This album is a chronologically sequenced two-disc collection of his most exciting recorded moments with The Stooges, and as a solo artist. Indeed, 'A Million in Prizes' is a career and label spanning 37-track set with key cuts from 1969 through to 2003, including the New Zealand hit singles "Wild Child" (#1) and "Candy" - ESSENTIAL LISTENING!

Iggy (or Mr. Pop, as the New York Times refers to him) lives in that rarefied zone inhabited by the true avatars of rock who struck its template in the 1960s and have thrived through the 70s, 80s, 90s and into the new century. It is not enough that the Stooges virtually single-handedly godfathered punk rock, garage rock and American heavy metal almost four decades ago, or that Iggy Pop went on to conquer Europe and Asia as a headlining phenomenon in the 1990s. His status today, filling stadiums (and hundreds of websites) around the world with his unparalleled energy, his nerve, and his charismatic "Lust For Life" illustrate that the spectre of Iggy Pop is a universal rock force

The liner notes for 'A Million In Prizes: The Anthology' include essays by Lenny Kaye, guitarist (Patti Smith Group), producer (Suzanne Vega, Soul Asylum, Kristin Hersh) and rock journalist, and Danny Fields, the Stooges first A&R rep. at Elektra and onetime de facto manager. Also included are impressions of Iggy Pop contributed by some other world-famous personalities:

"I love Iggy! I love Iggy! I love Iggy! I love everything about Iggy. He created the look, the ambience, the confrontational oeuvre. Iggy has the best body in Rock and Roll."
- Lou Reed

"As the Stones had Chuck Berry, so the loosely defined Punk movement looked to Jim. He has spawned as many testosterone driven outfits as anyone on this planet. And he still knocks 90% of them into a cocked hat."
- David Bowie