Iggy Pop
American musician (born 1947) · United States · Musicians
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Something wrong?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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FreeAlbum2018Lust for LiveAlbum2017Commandeur des Arts et des LettresAward2016Post Pop DepressionAlbum2012
AprèsAlbum2003“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.”In their words19 November 2003On wearing leotards and fishnet stockings in his early performances.“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. ...”In their words19 November 2003On his stage performances, including acts where he would crawl and roll on broken glass.Chevalier des Arts et des LettresAward
Skull RingAlbum, 20031999“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.”In their wordsSeptember 1999"Message from under the rock - musician Iggy Pop" in Interview magazine (September 1999)“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.”In their wordsSeptember 1999"Message from under the rock - musician Iggy Pop" in Interview magazine (September 1999)Avenue BAlbum1996Naughty Little DoggieAlbum1993American CaesarAlbum1988
InstinctAlbum1986Blah‐Blah‐BlahAlbum1981
PartyAlbum1980
SoldierAlbum1977“The industrialism in Detroit...what I heard walking around...boom boom bah - 10 cars...boom boom bah - 20 cars...I get a lot of my influence from the electric shaver...”In their words6 May 1977When asked what influenced his music.“I'll tell you about punk rock: punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and, uh... and, uh... heartless manipulators, about music...”In their wordsMarch 1977Iggy Pop, punk pioneer, on Peter Gzowski's 90 Minutes Live (March 1977)
The IdiotAlbum, 19771947Born21 April 1947Also in Deutsch
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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.
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.
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. ...
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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 "Search and Destroy" became anthems even as commercial success stayed out of reach; his only U.S. Top 40 hit came in 1990 with "Candy," a duet with Kate Pierson. Bowie reworked their co-write "China Girl" into a global smash in 1983, and kept performing Pop's material for the rest of his life. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010 and handed a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020, Pop remains a template - his voice ranging from baritone croon to unhinged shriek, his catalog touching garage rock, post-punk, industrial, jazz, and grunge, his influence audible in
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