A short way into my interview with Julien Temple, we notice a middle-aged suit at the table behind us who’s engrossed in a copy of a recent Iggy Pop biography. “It’s the wrong one,” Julien says as he dismissively shrugs. He should know. He’s the self-appointed guardian of punk history–which is archived in his music videos and slingshot documentaries–and carries unpublished biographies of punk heroes inside his head. He can remember the climax of the Iggy video he directed with Pop’s trousers ’round his ankles. He remembers seeing Iggy backstage after his disastrous crooner re-invention, defiling the assembled Arista records’ WAGs by pissing over their fashionable ankle bracelets.
