Six Degrees of Iggy Pop

Sometimes it seems like practically everyone in the rock industry has slept with someone who’s slept with someone… who’s slept with Iggy Pop. Just from a single book (Please Kill Me, the oral history of punk created by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain) I’ve been able to reconstruct the following, um, connections among rock musicians and their friends. Pop’s conquests are in the first column, theirs are in the second, and so on; numbers are of pages in the book where the relevant connections are mentioned. And yes, boys and girls, oral sex does count…

1. Potato Girl (first wife) 51-53
2. Kathy Asheton (sister of Ron and Scott Asheton) 51
   1. Fred “Sonic” Smith 35, 36, 367
      1. Janis Joplin 61
      2. Patti Smith 342, 367, 368, 370-372, 422
         1. Robert Mapplethorpe 93, 98-100, 102, 104, 107
            1. Jack Walls 424
         2. Todd Rundgren 100, 101
         3. Allen Lanier (Blue Oyster Cult) 101, 107, 171, 417
         4. Penny Arcade 102, 103
         5. Jim Carroll (Jim Carroll Band) 104, 111
            1. Devra 104
            2. Jackie Curtis (transvestite) 428
         6. Sam Shepard 105, 111-113, 422
         7. Tom Verlaine 171, 172
         8. Paul Simonon 231
            1. Caroline Coon 262
3. Betsy 54
4. Nico 56-58
   1. Bob Dylan 7-9
   2. Brian Jones 8
   3. Alain Delon 8, 414
   4. Lou Reed 10, 18
      1. Billy Name 15
      2. Rachel (transvestite) 155, 206, 420
      3. Sylvia Morales/Reed 285, 286, 304, 383, 421
   5. John Cale 18
   6. Jim Morrison 29
      1. Pam Courson/Morrison 28, 413
         1. Tom Baker 413
      2. Gloria Stavers 31
   7. Kevin Ayres (Soft Machine/Gong) 439
5. Sable Starr 137-139
   1.  Ron Asheton (Stooges) 137, 139
      1. Danielle 54
   2. Scott Asheton (Stooges) 137
   3. David Bowie 138
      1. Angela Bowie 95, 121
         1. Ron Asheton 127 (see above)
         2. David’s black bodyguard 134, 135
      2. Cyrinda Foxe 134
         1. James Williamson (Stooges) 136
            1. Evita 224
         2. David Johansen 137 (see below)
   4. Johnny Thunders (New York Dolls) 150-154, 215
      1. Cindy Laing 151
         1. Alice Cooper 151
      2. Janice 189
   5. Richard Hell 215
      1. Roberta Bayley 196
      2. Anya Phillips 283
         1. Damita 284 (see below)
         2. James Chance (?) 382
      3. Rachel (first girlfriend) 429, 430
   6. Keith Richards 215
6. Coral Starr (sister of Sable Starr) 138, 139, 142
7. Bebe Buell (mother of Liv Tyler) 144-146
   1. Todd Rundgren 101, 144-146, 283 (see above)
   2. David Bowie 122 (see above)
   3. Mick Jagger 283
   4. Elvis Costello 309
   5. Stiv Bators (The Dead Boys/Lords of the New Church) 341, 342
      1. Eileen Polk (?) 239 (see below)
      2. CBGB’s waitress (on stage!) 239
      3. Gyda Gash 241
         1. Cheetah Chrome (The Dead Boys) 241, 304
      4. Cynthia from the B Girls 340
      5. Caroline Bators 389-394, 442
      6. Anastasia 390
   6. Jack Nicholson 342
   7. Steven Tyler 400
      1. Cyrinda Foxe 401 (see above)
   8. Coyote Shivers 412
8. Girl from the Detroit suburbs 222
9. Nancy Spungen 348
   1. David Johansen (New York Dolls) 150
      1. Kate Simon 416, 422
   2. Johnny Thunders 150 (see above)
   3. Sylvain Sylvain (New York Dolls) 150
      1. Damita 300, 301
         1. Diego Cortez 284
         2. Joey Ramone (Ramones) 302
            1. Pam Brown 211, 254
            2. Linda 387
   4. Jerry Nolan (New York Dolls) 150
   5. Eliot Kidd 209
   6. Dee Dee Ramone (Ramones) 215
      1. Connie Gripp 152, 200, 201, 211-213, 215, etc., 365
         1. Arthur Kane (New York Dolls) 147-149, 420
            1. Eileen Polk 152, 191 (see below)
      2.  Eileen Polk 152, 200, 201, 212, 213, 215
      3. blonde in parking lot 337
      4. Vera Boldis/Colvin 360, 363, 364, 420
      5. Linda Stein 363
         1. Seymour Stein 230, 423 (see below)
      6.  Seymour Stein 363
      7. Danny Fields (?) 363
         1. Richard Sohl 162
         2. Richard Lloyd 170
      8. Laura Allen 388
   7. Sid Vicious (Sex Pistols) 264, 265, 348, 357, 422, 424
      1. Laurie/Larry (transsexual) 329
      2. Michelle Robinson 352, 357
   8. Ron Wood 351
   9. Keith Richards 351 (see above)
   10. Tom Hamilton 351
   11. Brad Whitford 351
10. Alex 436
    1. Ron Asheton 436 (see above)