Who's the man and what is the music?

[anotheoldgit]

There is an advert currently on TV which shows a thin scrawny man in a=n open top car sand along side of him is a blow up doll of the man.

Who is this man, I suspect he is an ageing rock artist but I am not sure,

Does anyone know who he is please?

There is also another advert, I think it is some financial one, at the end of the advert they say "now bring on the sax or something similar, what is the piece of music they play?

[MarkRae]

Iggy Pop.

Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty

[anotheoldgit]

Thanks so much Mark, although I have never heard of Iggy Pop, at least I can now gain brownie points with my family, because not one of them knew who he was either.

Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty, ah! yes now I remember that haunting music.

Thanks once again.

[andy-hughes]

Iggy is an iconic figure in American punk / glam - famous for his noizenik band The Stooges. He is still, as Jonathon Ross so memorably said - relentlessly pioneering that topless look. Iggy is on a par with Keef Riffhard - he really should not be alive bearing in mind the internal and external punishment his body has taken over the years.

A class act.

[another-view]

And him appearing in the Swift cover ads is rather strange as they don't insure entertainers.

[andy-hughes]

I believe they do now - after the rumpus caused by Ig's appearence and lack of a policy - mind you, given his lifestyle, the premiums are probably eight figures!