Danny Fields spends time explaining his past to Iggy Pop

Punk rock midwife Danny Fields tells Page Six that he now spends a lot of time explaining to Iggy Pop what happened in his own life.

Fields was at the center of the nascent punk rock scene and signed, managed or acted as publicist for key bands including Iggy and the Stooges, MC5, Ramones and others in various ways.

Fields showed up at the Chelsea Hotel for an exhibition of the work of his late pal Edie Sedgwick, and when we asked him what he was up to now, he told us that he often “straightened things up”.

“It’s like, ‘Iggy, come here, I need to talk to you. That story you tell when people ask you how you met David Bowie – Iggy, that’s not what happened,” Fields said. He added: “Listen, what happened was you stayed at my house. You’re saying it wrong. [He’ll say]”OK, so what happened? Do you know why I’m telling you this? I don’t recall such a thing.

Fields said Pop usually agrees to take his side of the story. The punk legend began his career in 1968 when he convinced Elektra to sign his band from Michigan.

Fields says he now tends to listen to the Grateful Dead, calling their unique concerts “one of the greatest treasures of our lives.” He also says he plays records by Bach, Beethoven and Mozart. So not punk?

“I’ve never listened to punk! Unless it was [British acts] the [Sex] Guns, Clash or Buzzcocks. What are you looking at when you listen to something? You want to be there. That was the whole thing. being there. The audience was as much a part of the experience as what was happening on stage. It was a symbiosis.”

Also at the ball at the hotel were Sedgwick’s widower Michael Post and brother John Sedgwick, as well as Spyros Niarchos, Janna Bullock, Michele Gerber Klein, Vincent Fremont, producer Jane Rosenthal, director Darren Aronofsky and designer Zac Posen.

Other noted guests include Sophie, Taylor and Lizzy Plimpton, Tali Lennox, Laura Eastwood, Carolina Hoffman, Maia Twombly, Jay McInerney, Michael Henry Adams, David Margolick, Morgan Entrekin and Anne Margaret Daniel of New School.