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Iggy Pop
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I wore that because it makes me look beautiful. I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, "Wow, I'm really great-looking." ... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.
— On wearing leotards and fishnet stockings in his early performances.
Iggy Pop
American musician (born 1947)
- Audience387K
- Fame81.5
- Momentum6.3
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387K youtube followers
- Audience387K
- Fame81.5
- Momentum6.3
- Global rank#244
- United States rank#250
- Musicians rank#213
Born 1947 · age 79United States
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Updated 2026-06-13
He rolled in broken glass, dove into crowds before anyone else did, and spent five decades howling a blueprint the entire punk universe still follows. NPR called him one of the 50 Great Voices. The world calls him the Godfather of Punk.
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James Newell Osterberg Jr. was born April 21, 1947, and by the early 1970s he was fronting the Stooges, a proto-punk band playing raw primitive rock that sold almost nothing but earned a cult following through confrontational shows laced with self-mutilation and exposure. In 1973 David Bowie produced the Stooges' Raw Power, beginning a long friendship that led both men to West Berlin in 1977 to shake their drug habits — there Pop launched his solo career with Bowie's help on The Idiot and Lust for Life, writing most of the lyrics himself. Songs like "Lust for Life," "The Passenger," and "Searc…
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Iggy Pop
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Yeah, she's heard the war stories ... I tell it all to her. I think one has to, because one wants to know somebody, and one wants to feel that somebody knows one.
— On discussing his past escapades with his girlfriend.
Iggy Pop
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As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colorful, even the broken-glass thing. Although, you know, there's an archetypal element to that anyway. ...
— On his stage performances, including acts where he would crawl and roll on broken glass.
Iggy Pop
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I feel like God peed on all my enemies. For a long time I was very bitter that the people who controlled the means of anybody ever hearing my songs were never gonna play them.
— "Message from under the rock - musician Iggy Pop" in Interview magazine (September 1999)
Iggy Pop
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You know, I'm fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry a tune in a living room if called upon.
— "Message from under the rock - musician Iggy Pop" in Interview magazine (September 1999)
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- Every Loser2023
- Real Wild Old Man2019
- Lust for Live2018
- Loneliness Road2017
- Post Pop Depression2016
- Préliminaires2009
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Source confidence90.0
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