8 in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV. New Values was not a commercial success in the U.S., but has since been highly regarded by critics. [96] European and UK concerts will follow, with stops in festivals, including Bergenfest on June 15, Azkena Rock Festival on June 17, Crystal Palace Park festival on July 1, and Musilac Music Festival on July 8.[95]. After its release, Scott Thurston was added to the band on keyboards/electric piano and Bowie continued his support, but Pop's drug problem persisted. [80], On July 27, 2018, Pop released a joint EP with Underworld, titled Teatime Dub Encounters. His father, who was of Irish and English descent, was adopted by a Swedish-American woman, Minnie Josephine Osterberg. Pop also sings on "We're All Gonna Die" on Slash's first solo album Slash, which was released in April 2010. Its alive! He agreed to read the poem into an iPhone, and sent it off. There wasnt much that happened that wasnt conceived of as a performance, he said. His father was adopted by a Swedish-American nurse surnamed Osterberg. Yet if you can shake off its familiarity the central ideathat a person should live vigorously, unapologeticallyremains germane. Pop laughed when I yelped. The following year Pop contributed to Buckethead's album Giant Robot, including the songs "Buckethead's Toy Store" and "Post Office Buddy". In 1968, one year after their live debut and now dubbed the Psychedelic Stooges, the band signed with Elektra Records, again following in the footsteps of The Doors, who were Elektra's biggest act at the time (according to Pop, guitarist Ron Asheton called Moe Howard to see if it was all right to call the band "The Stooges", to which Howard responded by merely saying "I don't care what they call themselves, as long as they're not The Three Stooges!" Anyone who was still alive and able to crawl to the sofa would watch Starsky & Hutch. When he first moved to Miami, he acquired a cherry-red 1968 Cadillac DeVille, with a white top and brown Naugahyde seats. His drug habit varied in intensity during this time, but persisted. [57] He fronted a 25million TV ad campaign for Swiftcover, using the strapline "Get a Life". "I don't know why he hasn't made it really big," Warhol wrote. They have toured regularly since 2004. Josh Homme, the front man of Queens of the Stone Age, co-wrote and produced Pops most recent album, Post Pop Depression, from 2016; it was Pops first record ever to chart in the Top Twenty in the United States. B. Smith singing No More Good Time in the World for Me, Robert Johnson worrying over the hellhound on his trail. I loved the performance Part of me was like, "Wow, this is great. For a long time, I wasnt doing that well on the industry side of things. So it would be sort-of ludicrous to try and tour as Iggy and the Stooges when there's only one Stooge in the band and then you have side guys. Its possible to find echoes of the Stooges penchant for physical and spiritual obliteration in contemporary music; I often encounter a similar sort of purposeful dissolution in the songs of emerging rappers on SoundCloud. A few months later, Pop and Bowie travelled together to the Chteau dHrouville, an eighteenth-century estate outside of Paris, to make what became The Idiot, Pops solo dbut. In 1987, Pop appeared (along with Bootsy Collins) on a mostly instrumental album, Neo Geo, by Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. Pop released Lust for Life, co-produced by Bowie, in August of that year. In 2021 Pop appeared with Nico Rosberg - 2016 Formula One champion - in a video advert for the German State Railways' (Deutsche Bahn) high speed train services. This was Pop's first exposure to large-scale professional touring and he was impressed, particularly with Bowie's work ethic. Though the release of Fun House did not receive the recognition expected, it was later ranked No. Iggy Azalea shared that she has spoken with Britney Spears via social media after supporting the pop star during her conservatorship battle. [117], The project appears to have been shelved.[118]. "[35], In 1977, Pop signed with RCA Records. Youve got to fill out this form, and talk about this, and come down, and get manhandled and assaulted, and Whats your job? and Who employs you? He prefers to buy his cars used. 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You can fill in your sexual comments yourself. He was wanted to play Funboy in the original The Crow movie, but his recording schedule would not permit him. Bowie appeared on the song "Play it Safe", performing backing vocals with the group Simple Minds. I cant sing like Michael BublI know that! Part of the nature of a good idea is that no one around you gets it. He continued, Can you name another band thats taken longer to be understood than the Stooges? Who wants to be depressed, anyway?, Yet the bands tumult accurately reflected the tensions of the time, including the escalation of the Vietnam War. 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He also sang on the tracks "Rolodex Propaganda" and "Enfilade" by At the Drive-In in 2000. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight/And learn too late they grieved it on its way/Do not go gentle into that good night, he said. Jeep Holland, the manager of Discount Records, would holler Iguana alert! whenever Pop emerged from the stockroom in the basement of the store. Born on April 21, 1947 in United States of America, Iggy Pop started his career as Singer . I wake up, cup of coffee, stay in bed, clear my mind, dont think about the show, he said. The Countdown appearance has often been re-screened in Australia. [76][77] On both sides of the Atlantic, the album set a new peak chart position for Iggy Pop albums, becoming his first ever US Top 20 album[78] and first ever UK Top 5 album.[79]. [32] Shortly after the release of Fun House, the group disbanded because of Pop's worsening heroin addiction. Three hours before, I lie down on the floor and do something called wu chi breathing, where I breathe very deep into my gut for almost a half hour. Then he bought an electric-blue 1984 Ferrari 308 GTS, which he described as a motorcycle with a top on it. That one caught fire every once in a while. Its not a personal lack of confidence so much as an imposed one, Pop told me. Pop opened his acceptance speech by blasting two middle fingers at the crowd, and then reading from a stack of index cards, declaring who and what he believed was cool: his wife, his bandmates. [107], Also in 2016, he participated, with Michel Houellebecq and others, in Erik Lieshout's documentary To Stay Alive: A Method. He used the phrase "paki shop", apparently unaware of its racist connotations, prompting three complaints and an apology from the BBC.[52]. Bowie helped write and produce The Idiot and Lust for Life, Pop's two most acclaimed albums as a solo artist, the latter featuring one of his best-known songs, "The Passenger". His Countdown appearance is generally considered one of the highlights of the show's history and it cemented his popularity with Australian punk fans; since then he has often toured there. The reunion magnified the Stooges significance, particularly when they were booked alongside younger rock bands. Bowie released Low in January, 1977, the first album in his celebrated Berlin trilogy. Im more cat than dog when it comes to how comfortable I allow myself to get, lets put it that way. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. The Stooges released three studio albums: they followed up The Stooges with Fun House, in 1970, and Raw Power, in 1973. Pop said that the song was his response to being "sick of listening to idiot thugs with guitars banging out crappy music". As the rock n' roll narrative goes, David Bowie befriended an embattled, drug-addicted Iggy Pop in the mid 1970s and helped him rebound from the Stooges ' breakup by producing both of his. Photograph: Tom Copi 'Iggy dived. Pop is a courteous chauffeur. In January 2020, Pop received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2017, shortly after his 70th birthday, Pop was made a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Consul general in Miami on behalf of the French government. Warhol wrote that he met Pop when he was Jim Osterberg, at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 1966. Gimme Danger The Story of Iggy Pop was written by Joe Ambrose; Pop did not collaborate on the biography or publicly endorse it. This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 02:43. They gave me their bedroom. Iggy Pop is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor. In 1971, Scott Asheton, who played drums in the group, got blitzed on the sedative secobarbital and drove a tall truck full of rented gear under a low bridge. The drugs, he said, make you larger and weaker. The twenty-eight-year-old musician creates unique songs, drawing on her composition background and a big emotional palette. This box set contains the Prliminaires album, a collector "Les Feuilles Mortes" b/w "King of the Dogs" 7inch, the cover of which is Pop's portrait by Marjane Satrapi, and a 38-page booklet of drawings also by Marjane Satrapi. [67] On August 25, 2013, Iggy and the Stooges co-headlined RiotFest 2013's Day 2, performing in Toronto and Denver along with The Replacements.[68]. As he waded in, Pop told me that hed once stayed at a Holiday Inn in Tallahassee, missing a Merle Haggard performance in the hotel bar by a day. [22] In a 2007 Rolling Stone interview, he explained his relationship with his parents and their contribution to his music: Once I hit junior high in Ann Arbor, I began going to school with the son of the president of Ford Motor Company, with kids of wealth and distinction. He was 60 years old. We had gone to New York a couple of months before that just to check out the scene, and we had never been to a place like New York we went down around Eighth Street there where all the young tourists hang out, and we met these girls from New Jersey, from Princeton, they had a band called The Untouchable, and we're like, "Oh, you've got a band, sure, ha ha ha," and they said "Well, come to our house and see us play." He began playing drums in fifth grade. The story gets told now as a metaphor: the Stooges simply refused to acknowledge the laws of physics. Meanwhile, I was crazy as a loon myself.. Jim Jarmusch Is Afraid of Cherubs and Abe Lincoln. It was the first time I ever saw someone dance and interpret the music to the degree he was able to, live onstage. He added, The music wasnt pop, it wasnt rock, it was something else. He discovers new music for his show by taking the recommendations of friends and opening acts, by reading the shortest, most obscure reviews published in the Guardian, or by looking through the upcoming concert listings published each Friday in the Times. I attended two concerts by the Doors. [74], Williamson also added that touring had become boring, and trying to balance the band's career as well as Pop's was a difficult task. He is an only child, and was brought up by his mother, Louella, who worked for Bendix, a manufacturer of automobile and airplane parts, and his father, James, who taught English at Fordson High School, in Dearborn. Also in 2003, his first full-length biography was published. He describes this new release as a "quieter album with some jazz overtones", the first single off the album, "King of the Dogs", bearing a sound strongly influenced by New Orleans jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton. The Stooges fell apart shortly thereafter, for all the usual reasons: drugs, clashing agendas, poor sales. Iggy Pop lives with his wife in a $4 million Florida mansion; the home is a 5,252 square foot mansion which includes 5 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms. The Stooges played their last show in 2013. as The Possibility of an Island by Gavin Bowd, 2006), Pop was approached to provide the soundtrack for a documentary film on Houellebecq and his attempts to make a film from his novel. I tried to build myself back up from twenty years in harnessNew York City, the modern American record industry, gruelling economy touring. Written by Sylvester Stewart Published by Mijac Music (BMI)/Sony ATV Music Publishing Thousand Mile Inc. credits released April 21, 2020 license all rights reserved tags Tags [101], Pop hosts a weekly radio show and podcast titled "Iggy Confidential" on BBC 6 Music. [51] Pop also contributed the theme song for "Space Goofs". The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. While in Chicago, he played drums in blues clubs, helped by Sam Lay (formerly of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band) who shared his connections with Pop. Excuse mea new car? he asked. They tattoo their faces, a gesture that swears off mainstream acceptance. This was the beginning of a fruitful and largely drug-free period for both artists. in, United States Social Security Death Index, Last edited on 26 February 2023, at 02:43, "These 10 shock-rockers dared to take things to the highest extremes. Free is his most surprising record in decades, and one of his most collaborative. One afternoon, Pop gave me a tour of the place. While he holds an American nationality and practices Christianity. In 1996, Pop again found mainstream fame when his 1977 song "Lust for Life" was featured in the film Trainspotting. Pop also collaborated with Tomoyasu Hotei on the songs "How The Cookie Crumbles" and "Walking Through The Night" from the album Strangers, also released that same year.[73]. Stories about Pops misbehavior are lewd, captivating, and plentiful. [46][47] That year he also contributed to the Red Hot Organization's AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Blue project, singing a version of "Well Did You Evah!" He reminds me a little of Bruno Mars and Sal Mineo. Between shows, Pop emerged from the cool, dark booth, shirtless and looking for sunshine. That wasnt me., In early 1976, Pop went to see David Bowie at his hotel in San Diego, where Bowie asked if he might want to record Sister Midnight, a slinking, funky song hed been writing with his guitarist, Carlos Alomar. Pop sang four of the songs: In the Deathcar, TV Screen, Get the Money, and This is a Film. [94] Pop announced a tour to promote the album. [105] In the same year, Pop starred in Toby Tobias' thriller Blood Orange in which he plays an aging rock star. Most of Pops bandmates were as stoned and as disobedient as he was. Put that out. Pop sings the lines with a kind of deranged glee, as if he were trying to get the words out while being dragged off to jail. And the kids were jumping and having so much fun. [34], Bowie and Pop relocated to West Berlin to wean themselves off their respective drug addictions. In 1996, Pop released Naughty Little Doggie, with Whitey Kirst returning on guitar, and the single "I Wanna Live". Pop lives near the Atlantic coast, south of Miami, Florida. The group was led by Michael Erlewine, an aspiring intellectual who read the major poets, knew a bit about philosophy, and had experimented with psychedelic drugs. The surrealist black-and-white video uses stop motion, light painting, and other retro in-camera effects techniques. Even Rolling Stone, a bullhorn for the counterculture, didnt entirely dig it: Their music is loud, boring, tasteless, unimaginative and childish. Virgin first reissued Lust for Life and The Idiot in 1990, then TV Eye Live 1977 in 1994. Id go to the beach and come home, go to the beach and come home. The bassist was just the guy who couldnt play guitar as well as the other guy. Iggy Pop Josh Homme on Iggy Pop: 'Lemmy is gone. [81][12], Pop's eighteenth studio album, Free, was released on September 6, 2019. "I . Still, rebellion that vicious will eventually catch up with a person. A critic from the Guardian called the performance superhuman.. Iggy Pop, better known by her family name James Newell Osterberg Jr., is a popular French Singer. Already, Pop had an instinct for theatrics. Pop has been profiled in several rockumentaries and has had songs on many soundtracks, including Crocodile Dundee II; Trainspotting; Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; Haggard; Arizona Dream; Repo Man; Black Rain; Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare; Shocker; and Kurt Cobain: About a Son. Now it was time to shoot a video. Son of James Newell Osterberg, Sr. and Louella Osterberg We spent the next two days cruising around like this. Thats a lot of loss, I told him. He is an only child, and was brought up by his mother, Louella, who worked for . The first two albums are chaotic, desperate, and bold. This culminated in their evacuation from the master bedroom in the trailer, because that was the only room big enough for my drum kit. Pop was brutal onstagebarfing, taking his clothes off, dragging furniture or bodies around, slicing his chest with shards of broken glass. He played these demos for Bowie, who was sufficiently impressed to offer to produce an album for Pop: 1986's new wave-influenced Blah-Blah-Blah, featuring the single Pop wakes up early these daysby 6 A.M. or soand his only significant indulgence is a few glasses of wine in the evening, usually with dinner. Eric was brought up by his mother, in California, and lives in Berlin now.) I began to recoil from guitar riffs in favor of guitarscapes, from twangs in favor of horns, from back beat in favor of space, and, in large part, from the effluent of my own mind and problems, in favor of trying to interpret the poetry of others, he writes in the liner notes. In part, this is why it matters so much to him that his work remain vital. Iggy and the Stooges were making a deeper political statement that had to do with disenfranchisement and disconnection from the mainstream, Kramer said. And the first two Stooges albums are the theme.. Pop's 2003 album Skull Ring featured collaborators Sum 41, Green Day, Peaches, and The Trolls, as well as Ron and Scott Asheton, reuniting the three surviving founding members of the Stooges for the first time since 1974. Called the "Godfather of Punk", [2] [3] he was the vocalist and lyricist of proto-punk band The Stooges, who were formed in 1967 and have disbanded and reunited many times since. Virgin continues to distribute these albums to this day. "[17] He was inducted as part of the Stooges into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. Iggy Pop Family Background & Career. To prepare for the release of Free, Pop agreed to shoot some promotional videos at Sweat Records, an independent record shop in Miamis Little Haiti neighborhood. And, by the way, Ive got a fringe jacket that you cant get, Pop said. My bod gets tight. The Stooges' album Raw Power has proved an influence on artists such as Sex Pistols,[13] the Smiths,[14] and Nirvana. In the vestibule there are framed photos of his mother and father, and a handwritten note from Yoko Ono (Ask the clouds to remember). Pop testified in the reissue's liner notes that on the new mix, "everything's still in the red". They formed a band called the Psychedelic Stooges, and began developing their sound in the basement. In 2012, Pop played the conscience of a clown named Elliot (Denis Lavant) in the French film L'toile du jour[fr] (Morning Star) directed by Sophie Blondy[fr]. Pop had grown dissatisfied with RCA, later admitting that he had made TV Eye Live as a quick way of fulfilling his three-album RCA contract. They helped me explore anything I was interested in. Scott died the same way, in 2014. LSD wasnt criminalized in the United States until the end of 1968, and drugs more generally were not particularly difficult to come by on campus. Pop collaborated with Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse on the album Dark Night of the Soul, singing the track "Pain". [66] He is also featured on Kesha's song "Dirty Love" on her second album Warrior. The nickname shrank to Iggy, and stuck. "Yes, I have been in touch," the "Black Widow . The extremity of the placeit is both environmentally tenuous and aesthetically vulgarseems to suit Pop, who, in the late nineteen-sixties, as a member of the Stooges, helped invent and refine punk rock, a genre of music so menacing and physically savage that it is sometimes shocking that Pop has made it to the age of seventy-two. In September, Pop will release Free, his eighteenth solo album. Further, he belongs to the Caucasian ethnicity. [116], He also called Wood "a very poised and talented actor". [11][12] Though his popularity has fluctuated, many of Pop's songs have become well known, including "Search and Destroy" and "I Wanna Be Your Dog" by the Stooges, and his solo hits "Lust for Life", "The Passenger" and "Real Wild Child (Wild One)". Youd see the paint bubble first, he said. (There is a famous photograph of Pop taken that night, wearing tight jeans, a studded dog collar, and a silver lam glove, walking upright on the audiences raised hands, as if the crowd were a floor made of people.) In January 2015, it was announced that Pop contributed the theme song to Alex Cox's film Bill, the Galactic Hero. "He is so good. was cranked to inhumane levels. Their set included material from the 2007 album The Weirdness and classics such as "No Fun" and "I Wanna Be Your Dog". Pop was also the voice of Lil' Rummy on the Comedy Central cartoon Lil' Bush and confirmed that he has done voices for American Dad! [9][10] Pop, who traditionally (but not exclusively) performs bare-chested, also performed such stage theatrics as rolling around in broken glass and exposing himself to the crowd.[10]. Yes, in places it sounds more like Bowie than Iggy . He was the guy around campus who had the best record collection, knew how to wear boots, had reportedly hitchhiked with Dylan, Pop said. I didnt really use drugs for the next couple of years, except for the normal amounts of coke that everybody did at that time. But he credits his addictionsheroin, cocaine, pills, psychedelics, boozewith permitting him, for a time, to be stranger and more flamboyant onstage. Have you ever tried to buy a fucking car? In early 2006, Pop and the Stooges played in Australia and New Zealand for the Big Day Out. The Stooges' first album The Stooges (on which Pop was credited as "Iggy Stooge") was produced by John Cale in New York in 1969. He gave one of the most memorable performances in the history of the festival. In 2014, Pop presented (narrated) the BBC documentary Burroughs at 100. [24] He then began exploring local blues-style bands such as the Prime Movers (with brothers Dan and Michael Erlewine), which he joined at 18 years old. [111], Pop also appears as a zombie in the 2019 Jim Jarmusch film The Dead Don't Die.[112]. But he presumed that I was referring to a photograph of him, Bowie, and Lou Reed, taken by Mick Rock at the Dorchester Hotel, in London, in 1972. Though it seems clear that Pop was working, in part, by instinct, he was also being intentional. Eventually, Pop got bored doing British Invasion covers. Then I do Qigong, which loosens up my bod, he continued. [citation needed] The groundbreaking video explores transhumanist philosopher FM-2030's ideas of Nostalgia for the Future in the form of an imagined love affair between a robot and one of Man Ray's models in Paris in the late 1930s. Pop has also collaborated with the composer Jamie Saft, the producer Danger Mouse, and the experimental musician Oneohtrix Point Never, who worked with him on The Pure and the Damned, a song for the 2017 film Good Time, directed by Josh and Benny Safdie. [102], Based on Kai Grehn[de]'s German translation of Walt Whitman's poetry cycle in 2005, a radio drama and bilingual double-CD audio book "Kinder Adams/Children of Adam" was released by Hrbuch Hamburg in 2014, including a complete reading by Pop.[103]. Iggy and the Stooges were a giant opening to me, the singer and writer Richard Hell told me. Iggy Pop - 'Every Loser' Out Now: https://Atlantic.lnk.to/IggyPopEveryLoserIDhttp://everyloser.iggypop.comAnimation by Andrew Ralph @awralphFollow Iggy PopFa. 2, 1995). On June 22, 2016, Stooges guitarist James Williamson made an official statement saying that the Stooges were no more: The Stooges is over. Pop also featured as a voice talent in the 2004 ATARI video game DRIV3R (as Baccus and other characters),[98] which was produced by Reflections Interactive. [10] Ron Asheton later described him as having been a conventional teenager: "He hung out with the popular kids that wore chinos, cashmere sweaters, and penny loafers. In 1967, the year the Stooges formed, Detroit had been flattened by race riots, in which forty-three people were killed, hundreds were injured, and nearly fourteen hundred buildings were burned, mostly in black neighborhoods. Father of Private. Iggy Pop turned 73 on Tuesday and he celebrated by unearthing a cover of the Sly and the Family Stone classic "Family Affair" that he recorded with funk icon Bootsy Collins back in 1985. EPs [ edit] Live albums [ edit] Compilation albums [ edit] Box sets [ edit] Singles [ edit] Periodically, his face will collapse into a benevolent grin. In San Francisco, in 1974, he was stomping through the crowd when a fan yanked his briefs down and appeared to perform oral sex on him. [75], In 2016, Pop recorded an album with Josh Homme titled Post Pop Depression. James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer, musician, radio broadcaster, songwriter and actor. Pop himself told the story in the 2016 Jim Jarmusch documentary film about The Stooges, Gimme Danger. Earlier, he had suggested that he didnt know very much about country music, but then he spoke thoughtfully and at some length about the careers of Doc Watson, Hank Williams, and Waylon Jennings, before putting his head underwater and starting a vigorous swima mixture of freestyle and backstroketo a buoy about fifty yards offshore. Its surprising that Pop would worry, even for a moment, about the propriety of a lyric. A new video was recorded for the song, with clips from the film and studio footage of Pop dancing with one of the film's stars, Ewen Bremner. Chicago blues is rowdy and licentious, but it carries some of the lonesomeness of the genres country forebears: J. His father was a former high school English teacher and baseball coach at Fordson High School. The penultimate track on Free is Pop reading Dylan Thomass poem Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, over moody peals of guitar, synthesizer, and horn. He wore dark pants, thick boots, and a leopard-print jacket with no shirt. The neighborhood is a mixture of Bahamian, Haitian, Dominican, and Cuban, and is bordered by the Little River, a brackish, semi-polluted canal. It got confrontational. If he is touring, his preshow ritual takes eight or nine hours. [61] With reference to the song "The Passenger", Pop has appeared on NZ television advertising phone networks, showing that he could get a band to play together by conference call. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. I had a rag that I used to beat it out with. He got the idea to do it after an advertising agency asked him to read the poem for a commercial voice-over. A wardrobe rack contained pieces from Gucci, Versace, and Saint Laurent. I read an article that said she tried to get David Bowie and couldnt, he said. You know, Im a blues guitarist, and what I want to get over in this hour is that I can play the blues and youre going to believe it and make me rich. [89] On his new album Breathe by Hammond master Lonnie Smith, Pop provides vocals on two tracks, "Why Can't We Live Together" (a cover version of the Timmy Thomas original) and on "Sunshine Superman" (a cover version of the Donovan original). I had the tremendous investment my parents made in me. I kind of like it. The rock critic Lester Bangsa fanwrote, in Creem, in 1970, Antisocial art simply dont fit in, brothers and sisters. 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