IGGY POP Preliminaires (2009 UK 12-track CD album - The artist, considered to be the 'Godfather Of Punk', returns with a quieter album, with 'some jazz overtones'. The album themes and texts have been inspired by Iggy's reading of controversial French novellist Michel Houellebecq, and his book 'The Possibility Of An Island'. '[The book] is about death, sex, the end of the human race, and some other pretty funny stuff [...] I read the book with intense pleasure when it came out, and in my mind, I created music that would have been the music that I would hear in my soul when I read this book' explains Iggy.)