If you don’t know who Iggy is after his surprise American Idol appearance two weeks ago, well, downloading the A Million In Prizes compilation from iTunes or AmazonMP3 should help you on your way to discovering and appreciating this man’s wide body of work with the Stooges and as a solo artist.

Yep, the true King of Rock And Roll, Iggy Pop, was on American Idol* tonight, doing “Real Wild Child (Wild One)”, something to tie in with the fact that yesterday the Idol contestants did repertoire from Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame inductees (of which Iggy and The Stooges have been since last year). Nice move, AI producers.

*As you may have noticed, I didn’t do my customary “re-spelling” of the show’s title. When this season’s over, I may elaborate further.

Well, three years ago, I started blogging seriously at the first version of MotokoAoyama.com in April of 2006. However, the exact start date is lost to the ages thanks to the business ineptitude of a webhost owned by a part-time hair metal oldies band drummer. For whatever reason, I didn’t commemorate the first anniversary of Stuck In A Pagoda, but decided last year to make April 11th the official anniversary to coincide with the day my fiancee and I witnessed seeing Iggy Pop & The Stooges at the Electric Factory on 4.11.07. The clip of the Stooges doing “TV Eye” below was shot two days beforehand in New York City.

And to cover the other half of this blog’s usual musical equation and remain with the live concert theme, a live version of one of the best singles Morning Musume has done (to date) in that same three-year time period. No slouch to the rest of the top notch material the band has done in that time period (“Eago YES Nude”, “Mikan”, “Kanashimi Twilight”, etc.), but the choice was easy because it happens to be the most played Morning Musume song on my iTunes:

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I’m going to have to update that list I did last year for a later post.