Iggy Pop

American musician (born 1947)

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Born 1947 · age 79United States

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Born 1947
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The Dead Don't Die
2019

Summary

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

said19 Nov 2003

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

said19 Nov 2003

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

said19 Nov 2003

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

saidSep 1999

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

saidSep 1999