Iggy Pop, The Royal Albert Hall, review: Pop is raging against the dying of the light

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy At 69, Iggy Pop is raging against the dying of the light and tonight the Royal Albert Hall is the focus of his ire. The response to opener “Lust for Life” is unbridled mania to the point you forget you’re in the confines of the normally reverential Albert Hall. Having outlived his dear friends and collaborators David Bowie and Lou Reed, rather improbably given his 1970s seemed to consist of little other than hard drugs and extreme acts of self-mutilation, Pop is staring mortality in the face on new album Post Pop Depression.The album is an impressive heyday-recalling set made with Queens of the Stone Age frontman Joshua Homme and Artic Monkeys’ drummer Matt Helders. “Here comes success,” he exclaims on celebratory closer “Success”, and it gives pause for thought: never as big as Bowie or as revered as Reed, Iggy Pop has nonetheless triumphed utterly on his own terms.