Punk explained by someone who refused the word
On 11 March 1977, Iggy Pop sits with Peter Gzowski on CBC’s 90 Minutes Live, booked to play and then barred by a musicians’ union snag. Asked to define punk, he treats the word as a fashion label thrown by outsiders. The stage stories come up, including the night he was sick and decided to vomit with some style. What lasts is not the shock. It is the cold clarity: performance as work, and a man who will not let television tidy him.
