Homme, along with members of Queens Of The Stone Age and Arctic Monkeys backed up Pop for the performance. Iggy’s performance included The Idiot’s “Funtime,” the title track from Lust For Life as well as “China Girl.” Ever the collaborator, Pop had also recently released another album, Post Pop Depression, with Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme.
Pop went on to become a highly influential, iconic artist in his own right and performed a number of songs from those fruitful days in Berlin during his 2016 Austin City Limits debut. Iggy also co-wrote a song Bowie would have a hit with in 1983, “China Girl.” It seemed that the music world had finally caught up with Iggy Pop. Both albums arrived in 1977 in the height of punk rock’s heyday and were well-recieved. In 1977, Pop signed to RCA and Bowie helped him write and produce two albums that launched Iggy’s solo career in earnest, The Idiot and Lust For Life.
Iggy, however, continued his collaborative relationship with Bowie and both artists relocated to West Berlin in the mid-1970s, which was a productive time for Pop and Bowie and also saw them cleaning up. Bowie, no stranger to subverting norms himself, would oversee the reunification of The Stooges and helped produce their 1973 album, Raw Power.īut The Stooges reunion was short-lived and Pop was struggling with heroin addiction. After The Stooges broke up for the first time in 1971, Iggy met another highly influential figure, David Bowie. But this was perhaps largely due to the band being ahead of its time as well as inner turmoils within the group. The Stooges’ 1969 self-titled debut and their now celebrated, seminal 1970 LP Fun House, did not do well commercially. One of the early tenets of punk rock, if there ever were such things, was existing outside the mainstream and The Stooges certainly experienced their share of that. Pop would attend a pair of Doors concerts in his formative years and was inspired by Morrison’s wild stage performance. While The Doors aren’t often called a proto-punk band, nobody at the time was more punk rock than Jim Morrison. But Iggy was also heavily influenced by Jim Morrison and The Doors. The term proto-punk is fascinating as a number bands in the 1960s have had the description tagged to their names, like The Who, The Kinks and more. Pop co-founded proto-punk band The Stooges in 1967. But the legendary frontman has another fitting moniker, The Godfather of Punk. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.Iggy Pop celebrates his birthday today.
“My parents wanted to light my artistic candle,” he remembers, “but over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. In the ensuing decades he has embraced transparent plastic trousers, body glitter, and, on at least one occasion, a costume that made him look like a praying mantis. We can only assume that they have also supported him throughout an extremely ambitious sartorial career that began when he donned a maternity dress, white face, and an aluminum Afro wig for the very first Stooges concert, nearly a half-century ago. There is a certain syndicated sports radio talk show I wont name that uses Lust for. Pop was born James Newell Osterberg, Jr., in Muskegon, Michigan, on April 21, 1947, which means he is 68 today! Unlike so many of his angry punk brothers and sisters, he has nothing but lovely things to say about his upbringing-his parents even gave up their master bedroom in the trailer where they lived so that Jimmy would have a place big enough for his drum kit. For all the classic rock radio here, you never hear the stooges. I think I'm the greatest, anyway,” the great-looking musician, occasional actor, and undisputed style icon Iggy Pop once said. “I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, Wow, I'm really great-looking.
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