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James Newell Osterberg Jr., known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor who was the lead vocalist of the proto-punk band the Stooges. Regarded as the "Godfather of Punk", he is noted for his outrageous and unpredictable stage antics, poetic lyrics, and unique voice. He was named one of the 50 Great Voices by NPR, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of…
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Born 21 April 1947 · Q182665
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I get the feeling that John was the kind of guy who would have done his job for nothing, as long as he felt great about it. So we have that in common. Examining his life, I was interested to learn that he found his voice in large part through his wanderings in America. Sometimes it takes strange circumstances to provide a mirror in which to find yourself. Anyway, he
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“I get the feeling that John was the kind of guy who would have done his job for nothing, as long as he felt great about it. So we have that in common. Examining his life, I was interested to learn that he found his voice in large part through his wanderings in America. Sometimes it takes strange circumstances to provide a mirror in which to find yourself. Anyway, he”
“sick of listening to idiot thugs with guitars banging out crappy music”
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“But I was personally just miserable… David was a really good friend to me in many ways, but… he had his whole thing going on and a whole apparatus of people around him, and problems that he had to face. For more than a year, I lived in the room next door, and I had a good friendship, but it wasn”
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Mojo: “Iggy Pop Tried To Seduce My Mother!”
SFGATE: Iggy Pop, 79, gets caged and whisked offstage at Oakland performance
Published video “Search And Destroy”.
American Songwriter: Rare Footage: Remember When Iggy Pop Took a Documentary Crew on a Tour of the Lower East Side in 1993?
Published video “The Passenger”.
Published video “Cry For Love (Live)”.
Published video “Real Wild Child (Live)”.
Published video “Raw Power (Live)”.
Published video “Sixteen (Live)”.
Published video “Bang Bang”.
Published video “Baby It Can't Fall (Live)”.
Pop headlined the "CBGB Festival" in Brooklyn NY
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Published video “A night to remember! Sao Paulo @thetownfestival thank you! Videography @novak.fotografia 🇧🇷 🤘🤘🤘”.
Published video “Iggy and Los Tropicans at Way Out West”.
Published video “@ColoursofOstravafest appreciation reel. Good times! Videography Marta Kacprzak”.
Published video “On the road with Iggy Pop 2025 edition”.
Published video “Berlin! It was a trip! #iggypop #berlin videography @Soleilfull”.
Published video “And kick some tail he did! #uk”.
Published video “Iggyverse in Manchester. Epic night!”.
Published video “Nick Grimshaw of @BBC6Music coined a new phrase: Post Iggy Panic. We can relate! #uk”.
Published video “London. What a night! #iggypop”.
Yahoo: Iggy Pop: 78 years old and still shirtless, still sensational
Published video “UK run starting tonight. Rehearsals went great! See ya’ll at the shows videography by @elfie_germein”.
Released album “Montreux Jazz Festival 2023”.
Pop's 2006 collaboration "Punkrocker" with Teddybears was featured in the superhero film Superman
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Ultimate Classic Rock: Iggy Pop Revives Stooges Classics at First 2024 Gig: Video, Set List
Yahoo: Iggy Pop Performs The Stooges’ “I Got a Right” and “1970” for the First Time in Over a Decade: Watch
Re-recorded "The Passenger" in duet with Siouxsie Sioux: their orchestral version with a slower tempo was conceived for a commercial
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The Guardian: Iggy Pop review – age-defying force of nature still spitting, shirtless and sounding fantastic
Released album “Rare Trax”.
Ultimate Classic Rock: Iggy Pop Kicks Off All-Star Mini Tour: Videos, Set List
The Guardian: Iggy Pop: Every Loser review – a celebrity rocker group hug
Released album “Every Loser”.
The Guardian: Iggy Pop: Every Loser review | Dave Simpson's album of the week
People: Iggy Pop Says the Late Taylor Hawkins Played Drums on His New Album: 'I'm Very Fortunate'
loudwire: Iggy Pop Says He Didn’t ‘Fully’ Understand Foo Fighters at First
Rolling Stone: Iggy Pop Announces New Album ‘Every Loser,’ Promises the Music ‘Will Beat the Shit Out of You’
The Guardian: Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite on Iggy Pop: ‘It was hard to believe the music was made by humans’
Released ep “The Dictator”.
Awarded Polar Music Prize (2022).
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The Guardian: Ricky Gardiner, guitarist for David Bowie and Iggy Pop, dies aged 73
Released album “Tuff Baby”.
Released album “Live on Air Tonight”.
Released album “Iggy Pop Live: Search & Destroy”.
The Guardian: Pop is now too controlled to allow a maverick like Mick Rock to flourish | Sean O’Hagan
Released album “The Acid Lands”.
Released album “Kiss My Blood (live at The Olympia · Paris France · 1991)”.
Released album “The Bowie Years”.
Released album “The Bowie Years: Edits + Out‐Takes”.
Released album “The Bowie Years: Live in ’77”.
Rolling Stone: Iggy Pop Previews New Album With Meditative Title-Track ‘Free’
Released album “Free”.
Released album “Bookies Club 870”.
Released ep “Teatime Dub Encounters”.
Pop released a joint EP with Underworld, titled Teatime Dub Encounters
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Released album “Lust for Live”.
Released album “The Many Faces of Iggy Pop”.
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2017).
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Released album “Loneliness Road”.
Pop composed and performed vocals on the Oneohtrix Point Never song "The Pure and the Damned" on the soundtrack for the crime film Good Time
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Released album “Post Pop Depression: Live at the Royal Albert Hall”.
Pop released the double live album Post Iggy Pop Depression: Live At The Royal Albert Hall on Eagle Rock Entertainment (on DVD+2CD and digital formats)
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Stooges guitarist James Williamson made an official statement saying that the Stooges were no more:
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Released ep “Leaves of Grass”.
Released album “Post Pop Depression”.
Pop recorded an album with Josh Homme titled Post Pop Depression
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Released album “Psychophonic Medicine (The Unreleased Tracks)”.
In the episode "Burroughs 101", commemorating his 101st birthday
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Pop gave the fourth annual BBC Music John Peel Lecture in Salford, on the topic of "Free Music in a Capitalist Society"
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Released album “Лучший из Iggy Pop”.
Released album “Icon”.
Released album “Gimme Some Skin – The 7″ Collection”.
Released album “Shot Myself Up”.
Iggy and the Stooges co-headlined RiotFest 2013's Day 2, performing in Toronto and Denver along with the Replacements
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Released album “Heroin Hates You”.
Released album “The Very Best of Iggy Pop”.
Released album “Après”.
Pop was voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame
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Released album “Essential”.
Released album “I Used to Be a Stooge, but Now I'm a Real Wild Child”.
Released album “Roadkill Rising… The Bootleg Collection: 1977–2009”.
Released album “Pop Goes Bowie (The Dave Cash Collection)”.
At age 63, Pop performed "Real Wild Child" on the tenth season of American Idol; the Los Angeles Times music blog "Iggy Pop & Hiss" described Pop as being "still magnetic, still disturbing"
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Released album “Lust for Life / The Idiot”.
Teamed up with the Lilies, a collaboration between Sergio Dias of Os Mutantes and French group Tahiti Boy & The Palmtree Family, to record the single "Why
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Released album “Original Album Classics”.
Pop again stage dived at Rock Zottegem, Belgium, causing bleeding from the face
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And did similarly at London's Hammersmith Apollo on May 2, 2010
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Released album “Anthology Box - The Stooges & Beyond”.
And received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020 for his solo career
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It was announced that the Stooges would be inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 15, 2010
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Released ep “Electro sixteen”.
Released album “Real Wild Child”.
Released album “Préliminaires”.
For being misleading – it implied that Pop himself had an insurance policy with Swiftcover when at the time the company did not insure musicians
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Original Stooges guitarist and Pop's self-described best friend Ron Asheton was found dead from an apparent heart attack
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Released ep “Deep Cuts”.
James Williamson rejoined the band after 29 years
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Released album “Greatest Hits: Steel Box Collection”.
Pop appeared at Madonna's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York
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Released album “Where the Faces Shine – Volume 2”.
Released album “Where the Faces Shine, Volume 1”.
Released album “Iggy 1977”.
Released album “Acoustics KO”.
Released album “20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Iggy Pop”.
Released album “The A&M Recordings”.
Released ep “I Wanna Be Your Dog”.
Released album “A Million in Prizes: The Anthology”.
A radio drama and bilingual double-CD audio book "Kinder Adams/Children of Adam" was released by Hörbuch Hamburg in 2014, including a complete reading by Pop
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Pop appeared, along with Madonna, Little Richard, Bootsy Collins, and the Roots' Questlove, in an American TV commercial for the Motorola ROKR phone
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Released album “Platinum & Gold Collection”.
Released album “Artist Collection”.
Released album “Skull Ring”.
Released album “From the Front Row... Live!”.
Awarded Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (2003).
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The first full-length biography of Pop was published
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Released album “Greatest Hits Live”.
Released ep “Skull Ring EP”.
Released album “Hits”.
Released album “Beat ’Em Up”.
Released album “Power and Freedom”.
Released Beat 'Em Up, which gave birth to the Trolls, releasing the single "Football" featuring Trolls alumni Whitey Kirst and brother Alex
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Released album “Live in NYC”.
Released album “Millennium Edition”.
Released album “The Heritage Collection”.
Released album “Classic Iggy Pop”.
Released album “Nuggets”.
Released album “Nights of the Iguana”.
Released album “Avenue B”.
Pop made a guest appearance on Paramount Television's science fiction series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
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Released album “King Biscuit Flower Hour: Iggy Pop”.
Pop was credited with the soundtrack to the film The Brave
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When he dove from the stage of the Polaris Amphitheatre and the crowd failed to catch him, resulting in a dislocated shoulder and tendon damage
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Released album “The Masters”.
Released album “Nude & Rude: The Best of Iggy Pop”.
Released album “Best of… Live”.
Released album “Pop Music”.
Released album “Naughty Little Doggie”.
Pop released Naughty Little Doggie and the single "I Wanna Live"
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Pop again found mainstream fame when his 1977 song "Lust for Life" was featured in the film Trainspotting
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Released album “Wake Up Suckers!!!”.
Released album “Still Alright”.
Released album “Tough Guys Do Dance”.
Released album “American Caesar”.
Released ep “Wild America”.
Pop released American Caesar, including two successful singles, "Wild America" and "Beside You"
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Released album “Pop Story”.
Released album “Les génies du Rock: Live”.
Released album “Pop Songs”.
Collaborated with Goran Bregović on the soundtrack for the movie Arizona Dream by Emir Kusturica
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Released album “The Story of Iggy Pop”.
Collaborated with the New York City band White Zombie
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Pop and Kirst contributed the song "Why Was I Born (Freddy's Dead)" to the soundtrack of the film Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
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Released album “Wild Animal”.
Released album “Brick by Brick”.
Released ep “Livin’ on the Edge of the Night”.
Released album “Hippodrome Paris 77”.
Pop sang the role of "The Prosecutor" for the POINT Music/Philips Classics recording (released in 1992) of composer John Moran's multimedia opera The Manson Family
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Pop recorded Brick by Brick
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Released album “Live at the Channel, Boston M.A. 1988”.
Released album “Instinct”.
Pop appeared (along with Bootsy Collins) on a mostly instrumental album, Neo Geo, by Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto
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Released album “Kill City / I’m Sick Of You”.
Released album “Blah‐Blah‐Blah”.
Released ep “Real Wild Child (Wild One)”.
Pop and Lou Reed contributed their singing voices to the animated film Rock & Rule
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Pop recorded some demos with Jones
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Bowie recorded five more of their co-written songs, two from Lust for Life, one from New Values, and two new songs), assuring Pop financial security, at least for the short term
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Released album “I Got a Right”.
Pop's fortunes changed when David Bowie recorded a cover of the song "China Girl"
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Released album “Zombie Birdhouse”.
Released album “Party”.
Pop smashed a microphone into his own face, knocking out a front tooth
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Released album “Soldier”.
“I was not at all happy with a number of aspects of that record including the band, the material and the recording facilities. So I was unhappy in general and vice versa”
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Released album “New Values”.
Released album “TV Eye 1977 Live”.
Released album “Kill City”.
Released album “Lust for Life”.
Released album “The Idiot”.
Released ep “Jesus Loves The Stooges”.
Pop signed with RCA Records
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Bowie took Pop as his companion on the Station to Station tour
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Ended in a fight between the band and a group of bikers, documented on the album Metallic K
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Without a record deal, the Stooges kept performing in small clubs with a five-piece lineup that included both Ron Asheton and James Williamson on guitars and Jimmy Recca on bass, Pop having fired Dave Alexander the previ
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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
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At the University of Michigan and was amazed by the stage antics and antagonism displayed by singer Jim Morrison
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Born 1947-04-21.
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The son of Louella (née Christensen; 1917–1996) and James Newell Osterberg (1921–2007), an English teacher and baseball coach at Fordson High School in Dearborn, Michigan
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But I was personally just miserable… David was a really good friend to me in many ways, but… he had his whole thing going on and a whole apparatus of people around him, and problems that he had to face. For more than a year, I lived in the room next door, and I had a good friendship, but it wasn
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