Iggy & Debbie - Red Hot

I've been listening to the RED HOT + BLUE album a lot lately, resurrected by my friend's iPod! I had forgotten all about it and shall buy it asap! This was one of the first ever for-charity compilation albums, put together by the Red Hot non-profit charity organization that was established in 1989 by a group of New York artists in response to the Aids crisis, particularly as the disease was running rampant within the creative community of artists and musicians. Red Hot founder John Carlin had "an improbable dream: to create an AIDS charity album with pop stars singing Cole Porter songs." Red Hot + Blue was released in 1990. John said "That CD was inspired by naivete and sheer will."
The album features amazing tracks by musical powerhouses such as Sinead O'Connor, David Byrne, Bono, Annie Lennox, Lisa Stansfied, Neneh Cherry, The Thompson Twins, Kd Lang, Tom Waits, Erasure and The Jungle Brothers and spawned music videos by esteemed Directors such as Johnathan Demme, Jim Jarmusch and Wim Wenders. The album went on to sold 1 Million worldwide and becoming the template for future charity projects. And since then, Red Hot have created 20 more compilation albums, raising over $10 Million for HIV and Aids.
The album is unfeasibly good! Buddies Debbie Harry & Iggy Pop's 'Well, did you evah!' is a particular favourite. I adore the video of Iggy and Debbie toomfooling around New York, particularly the opening scenes of them cruising purposefully through Soho like the King & Queen of New York - fabulous!
Behold the coolness that is Debbie Harry and Iggy Pop.

Kate & Johnny

Kate and Johnny Depp, 1994, Annie Leibowitz

I found this amazing old Kate & Johnny interview from UK show The Big Breakfast, circa 1995. Beautiful people. Kate is like a little doe-eyed fawn. but the interviewer - eek, what a nightmare!!!

Rare Big Breakfast interview

Loving these old pics...

Kate & Johnny, The Photo Agency

Kate, Johnny & Iggy, Bob Gruen, 1996

Where the wild prints are: part deux

So it's true, the animals come along two-by-two. Having found a neat Agnés b leopard print t-shirt I thought my animal hunger had been sated, but then I spotted this gorgeous vintage sixties coat. At £75 it cost around the same amount as the t-shirt, but you won't catch me wearing them together, remember the rules - double animal print is a no-no. With a coat this eye-catching, it's best to keep the rest of the outfit simple, but one thing I will be adding is a splash of Iggy Pop in Stephen Sprouse attitude;

'I bought a Day-Glo yellow hooded leopard print, three quarter length winter jacket,' said Mr Pop, ' I wore it out of the store and hailed a cab on Sixth Avenue, and the cab driver said, 'You've got the wrong holiday, it's not Halloween.' I thought, "All right, I'll show you. I'll make this jacket famous." I made it my mission to wear it everywhere. I sort of beat that one to death.'




Ever had an item of clothing that you never wanted to take off (or that a cab driver has insulted!)?


Images from The Stephen Sprouse Book