tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post8244596891691186149..comments2024-03-28T09:33:26.444+00:00Comments on No Rock And Roll Fun: Iggy Pop adds Frank Sidebottom rip-off to awful insurance adsSimon Hayes Budgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07084524317888577404noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-36440125615451540262010-01-05T09:30:47.533+00:002010-01-05T09:30:47.533+00:00Iggy didn't say the ads were embarrassing. Wha...Iggy didn't say the ads were embarrassing. What he actually said was: <br /><br />"I ask Iggy Pop, willy-waver, self-mutilator, stage-diver, car-wrecker, ex-dope fiend, ex-thief, punk progenitor and Stooges singer, why Swiftcover, online seller of car insurance, wanted to use him to front their recent UK advertising campaign.<br /><br />He squirms and grins sheepishly. There’s a distinct blush beneath the coppery leather, newly scarred skin of his face. “This is so embarrassing. I was afraid you’d ask me that. This is so f***ing embarrassing.”<br /><br />He bangs the table and breaks into a high-pitched giggle. “They said they wanted this series of ads to be performed by somebody…” long pause, “…somebody you can’t help but like!”<br /><br />We stare at each other in silence, eyebrows raised, jaws dropped.<br /><br />“You mean,” I — shocked, disbelieving — say, “that almost 45 years of offensive, obnoxious, downright nasty rock’n’roll, of systematic debauchery and subversion — your life’s work — has come to nothing? People can’t help but like you!”<br /><br />“Exactly!”<br /><br />“You did it, Iggy, you failed upwards!”<br /><br />Now we’re both giggling “That’s a very nervous position to be in,” he gasps, “to be liked!” <br /><br />So Iggy, at least, gets the joke.<br /><br />http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6281809.eceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com