Jenny returned the favor and introduced her to Syd Barrett in January or February 1969. From then, they went clubbing in many occasions, and Iggy invited Jenny to a Dusty Springfield après-event. Iggy and artist Jenny Spires, ex-girlfriend and lifelong friend of Syd Barrett, met in the summer of 1966, and they met again at Biba's in the spring of 1967. She entirely captures the spirit of the Sixties, living for the moment, completely carefree." The most iconic images of her appear on Syd Barrett's solo album The Madcap Laughs, where she poses naked in the background, and were took by Mick Rock on the spring of 1969. We used to hang out together, occasionally dropping acid, staying up all night, going for walks at dawn in Battersea Park. She was a lovely inspiration and free spirit. I met her at a Hendrix gig at the Speakeasy. In 1967 she became involved with film director Anthony Stern, who took many pictures of the model and also made a film of her called "Iggy the Eskimo Girl". I was a free spirit." In the Swinging 1960s she was an iconic model. She recalled: "I met so many people in the 60s. In the 1960s, she met The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, The Yardbirds, Rod Stewart. Jeff wanted to turn me and two other lovely girls into the English version of the Supremes, but that never happened." When her mixed-race appearance was exoticised in the London of the 1960s, she gave the name "Eskimo" to an NME photographer as a joke, although she always said she was "from the Himalayas". She said: "The Orchid Ballroom was the place to be, the atmosphere was fantastic. She was very mysterious, she was unusual because she did not look like anyone else at the time." Iggy spent a brief part of the 60s living in Croydon with Dexter. He said: "Iggy was part of a group of very wonderful looking south London girls. DJ Jeff Dexter, who regularly played at the Orchid, vividly remembers the beautiful girl who used to talk to him while he played his set. She worked at Granny Takes a Trip, the "first psychedelic boutique in Groovy London of the 1960s", as a shop assistant, and was a regular at the Orchid Ballroom in Purley between 19. Iggy danced through life, her pretty looks and free spirit mostly assured her some food and a place to stay. She lived in Brighton but she ranaway from home in 1961, when she was fourteen, discovering boys, girls, booze, and speed. After moving to England Iggy was briefly an art student. For an unknown reason, Evelyn was nicknamed Iggy or Ig. In the aftermath of the conflict the Indian government censored all letters to and from Mizoram, and communication was lost between Chawngpuii and her family in north-east India. The Mizo branch had lost contact with the English family members in the sixties, when there had been a military conflict between India and Mizoram freedom fighters. This was only a temporary solution as the family returned to England where they lived the upstairs life. The family flew to Aden, Yemen, another melting pot of colonial and religious problems. One day a mob invaded their house and burned it down. Evelyn and family lived a luxurious and protected life in one of the British enclaves, politely ignoring that a civil war was raging around them. For decades there were political and military troubles in Mizoram, located in the North-Eastern part of India, bordering Myanmar and Bangladesh. Evelyn had two younger siblings, Stephen Lalungmuana, who was born in Dhaka (Bangladesh) in January 1949 and Elizabeth, who was born in Worthing, Sussex, around 1959. Evelyn's middle name, Laldawngliani, means gift of the gods, in mizo, a language Iggy never spoke. Evelyn's parents had met at the end of the Second World War, when he was stationed in Mizoram - then, the the Lushai Hills (northeastern India, then still ruled by the British). She was born Evelyn Laldawngliani Joyce on the 14th of December 1947 in Rawalpindi (Pakistan) to a British father, major Harry Charlton Joyce, an officer in the British army, and a Mizo woman, Chawngpuii (known as Angela in English). She was known as Iggy the Eskimo back then as it was rumored she was part Inuit. Iggy Rose was a model and actress who was immortalized by Mick Rock at Syd Barrett's "The Madcap Laughs", his first solo album after Pink Floyd, released in 1969.
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