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Iggy Pop is tagged as: punk, rock, punk rock, classic rock, proto-punk

James Newell Osterberg, Jr. (born on April 21, 1947 in Muskegon, Michigan), better known by his stage name Iggy Pop, is an American rock singer and occasional actor. Pop is one of the most important innovators of punk rock. Also referred to as “the Godfather of punk” and “the Rock Iguana”, he is widely acknowledged as one of the most dynamic stage performers of rock.
Pop was the lead singer of The Stooges, a late 1960s/early 1970s band that featured brothers Ron and Scott Asheton and Dave Alexander and was highly influential in the development of hard rock. The debut album was produced by the Velvet Underground’s John Cale. The band’s “I Wanna Be Your Dog” is a garage punk standard.
Raw Power was first released in 1973, the savagely bombastic Raw Power is perhaps the first record that could truly be called punk. It was the confluence of The Stooges ages, hormones, creativity, ability, experience, tastes, lack of supervision, contempt for authority and ambition that has made Raw Power one of the most influential albums of all time.
The Stooges were infamous for performances in which Pop leapt off the stage (hence, the “stage dive”), smeared raw meat or peanut butter over his chest and cut himself with broken bot...
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Top 10 Iggy Pop Songs
The Passenger
Lust for life
Nightclubbing
China girl
Funtime
Sixteen
Sister Midnight
Success
Some weird sin
Tonight
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Top 10 Iggy Pop Albums
Lust For Life
The Idiot
Nude & Rude: The Best of Iggy Pop
Brick By Brick
Preliminaires
New Values
American Caesar
Blah-Blah-Blah
Skull Ring
Iggy Pop - Universal Masters Collection
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