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The Stooges
The Stooges
American punk rock band
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Ron Asheton
Ron Asheton
American musician (1948-2009)
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James Williamson
James Williamson
American musician
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Scott Asheton
Scott Asheton
American drummer
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Kevin Armstrong
Kevin Armstrong
English rock guitarist, record producer and songwriter
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Scott Thurston
Scott Thurston
American musician
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Ivan Král
Ivan Král
Czech-American musician
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Carlos Alomar
Carlos Alomar
Puerto Rican guitarist, composer, and arranger
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Dave Alexander
Dave Alexander
American musician
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Mike Watt
Mike Watt
musician, songwriter
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Mick Rock
Mick Rock
British photographer, music video director
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Jeff Gold
Jeff Gold
American music business executive, author, music historian, art director, and music memorabilia collector and dealer
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David Bowie
David Bowie
British singer, musician, and actor (1947-2016)
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T. Rex
T. Rex
English rock band
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Toby Dammit
Toby Dammit
musician
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Ricky Gardiner
Ricky Gardiner
British musician
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Blondie
Blondie
American rock band
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Dinosaur Jr.
Dinosaur Jr.
American rock band formed in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1984
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James Murphy
James Murphy
American musician
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Air
Air
French electronica duo
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Lisa Kekaula
Lisa Kekaula
American musician
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David Richards
David Richards
English-born Swiss-based record producer, engineer and musician
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Rob Younger
Rob Younger
Australian musician
Intro
American musician
Awards Received
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎
Nominated For
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song
News
Member of, past and present

James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American musician, singer, lyricist, record producer and actor. Designated the "Godfather of Punk", he was the vocalist and lyricist of influential proto-punk band The Stooges, who were formed in 1967 and have disbanded and reunited multiple times since.

Initially playing a raw, primitive style of rock and roll, the Stooges sold few records in their original incarnation and gained a reputation for their confrontational performances, which often involved acts of self-mutilation by Pop. He had a long collaborative and personal friendship with David Bowie over the course of his career, beginning with the Stooges' album Raw Power in 1973. With both musicians having relocated to West Berlin to wean themselves off their respective drug addictions, Pop began his solo career by collaborating with Bowie on the 1977 albums The Idiot and Lust for Life with Pop usually contributing the lyrics. Throughout his career, he is well known for his outrageous and unpredictable stage antics, poetic lyrics and distinctive voice. He was one of the first performers to do a stage-dive and popularized the activity. 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.

Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the course of his career, including garage rock, punk rock, hard rock, heavy metal, art rock, new wave, jazz, blues, and electronic. Though his popularity has fluctuated through the years, 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)". In 1990, he recorded his first and only Top 40 U.S. hit, "Candy", a duet with B-52's singer Kate Pierson. Pop's song "China Girl" became more widely known when it was re-recorded by co-writer Bowie, who released it as the second single from his most commercially successful album, Let's Dance (1983). Bowie re-recorded and performed many of Pop's songs throughout his career.

Although Pop has had limited commercial success, he has remained both a culture icon and a significant influence on a wide range of musicians in numerous genres. The Stooges' album Raw Power has proved an influence on artists such as Sex Pistols, the Smiths, and Nirvana. His solo album The Idiot has been cited as a major influence on a number of post-punk, electronic and industrial artists including Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails and Joy Division, and was described by Siouxsie Sioux as a "re-affirmation that our suspicions were true: the man is a genius." He was inducted as part of the Stooges into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. In January 2020, Pop received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.