Everything about Iggy Pop totally explained
James Newell Osterberg, Jr. (born
April 21,
1947), better known by his
stage name Iggy Pop, is an American
rock singer,
songwriter, and occasional actor. Although he's had only limited commercial success, Iggy Pop is considered an innovator of
punk and related styles. He is sometimes referred to by the nicknames "the Godfather of Punk" and "the Rock Iguana", and is widely acknowledged as one of the most dynamic stage performers of rock. Pop began calling himself
Iggy after his first band in high school,
The Iguanas. His direct influence extends to the present day: a Cadillac ad in rotation since February 2007 features his vocal performance on the song "Punkrocker", recorded in 2006 with the Swedish band
Teddybears.
Iggy Pop was the lead singer of
The Stooges, a late 1960s/early 1970s
garage rock band who were influential in the development of the nascent
heavy metal and
punk rock genres. The Stooges became infamous for their live performances, during which it wasn't uncommon for Pop to consume narcotics,
self-mutilate, verbally abuse the audience, expose himself and leap off the stage (thus being among the first to "
stage dive"). Countless subsequent performers have imitated Pop's antics.
Pop has had varying degrees of success in the course of his subsequent solo career. His best-known solo songs include "
Lust for Life", "I'm Bored", "
Real Wild Child", the Top 40 hit "Candy" (with vocalist
Kate Pierson of
The B-52's) Osterberg was raised in a trailer park in
Ypsilanti, Michigan. He is of
Irish and
English descent on his father's side, and of
Danish and
Norwegian ancestry on his mother's. His father was adopted by a
Swedish-American family, hence the family's surname (Osterberg).
Music career
Early days: 1960 to 1967
Iggy Pop began his music career as a
drummer in different
high school bands in
Ann Arbor, Michigan. One band was
the Iguanas, where he acquired the name Iggy. After exploring local
blues-style bands such as
the Prime Movers (with brothers Dan and Philip Erlewine), he eventually dropped out of the
University of Michigan and moved to
Chicago to learn more about blues. Inspired by
Chicago blues as well as bands like
The Sonics and
The MC5, he formed the Psychedelic Stooges and began calling himself Iggy. The band was composed of Iggy on
vocals,
Ron Asheton on
guitar, Asheton's brother
Scott on
drums, and
Dave Alexander on
bass. After almost two years they made their debut in Ann Arbor.
The Stooges era: 1968 to 1975
The seeds of Pop's stage persona were sown when Pop saw
The Doors perform in 1967 at the University of Michigan. Pop was amazed by the stage antics and antagonism displayed by singer
Jim Morrison. This was widely aired on New Zealand television.
While in Australia Iggy Pop was also the guest on a live late-night commercial TV interview show on the
Ten Network. It isn't known whether a recording of this interview exists, but the famous
Countdown appearance has often been re-screened in Australia.
During the recording of
Soldier (1980), Iggy Pop and Williamson quarrelled over production - the latter apparently wanted a big,
Phil Spector-type sound - and Williamson was fired. Bowie appeared on the song "Play it Safe" performing backing vocals with
Simple Minds. The album and its follow-up
Party (1981) were both commercial failures, and Iggy Pop was dropped from Arista. His drug habit varied in intensity, but remained.
The 1980s
In 1982, Iggy Pop released what would be his final album for some time,
Zombie Birdhouse, on
Chris Stein's Animal label, with Stein himself producing. Commercially, the album was no improvement on his Arista works.
In 1983, Iggy Pop's fortunes changed. David Bowie recorded a cover of the song "China Girl', which had originally appeared on
The Idiot, on his blockbuster
Let's Dance album. Bowie's version was a worldwide hit single and as co-writer of the song, Pop received substantial
royalties. On
Tonight in 1984, Bowie recorded two more of their songs, this time from the
Lust for Life album, "Tonight" and "Neighborhood Threat". Pop was for the first time financially secure, at least for the short term. Bowie's intention was to help his friend get out of the clutches of the
IRS. This enabled Pop to take a three-year break, during which he overcame his heroin addiction, took acting classes and got married.
In 1985, Pop recorded some demos with guitarist
Steve Jones, previously of the
Sex Pistols. He played these demos to David Bowie, who was sufficiently impressed to offer to produce an album for Pop: 1986's
New Wave-influenced
Blah Blah Blah, featuring the
single "Real Wild Child", a cover of "Wild One (Real Wild Child)", originally made popular by Australian rock'n'roll pioneer
Johnny O'Keefe in 1959. The single was a Top 10 hit in the UK and was also successful around the world, especially in Australia, where for the last twenty years it has been used as the theme music for the
ABC's late-night music video show
Rage. It remains Pop's solitary brush with major commercial success.
Blah Blah Blah was Pop's highest-charting album in the U.S. since
The Idiot in 1977, peaking at #75 on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart.
Also in 1985, the movie
Rock & Rule was released featuring performances by Iggy Pop and
Lou Reed for the character Mok. Pop's song in the film was
Pain & Suffering from the final sequence of the film.
In 1987, Pop appeared (along with
Bootsy Collins) on a mostly instrumental album, Neo Geo by Japanese composer
Ryuichi Sakamoto.
The music video for "Risky", written and directed by Meiert Avis, won the first ever MTV "Breakthrough Video Award". The ground breaking video explores (Persian: فریدون اسفندیاری)'s,
transhumanist philosopher
FM-2030's ideas of "Nostalgia for the Future", in the form of an imagined love affair between a robot and one of
Man Ray's models in Paris in the late 1930's. Additional inspiration was drawn from
Jean Baudrillard,
Edvard Munch's 1894 painting "Puberty", and
Roland Barthes "
Death of the Author". The surrealist black and white video uses stop motion, light painting, and other retro in-camera effects techniques. Meiert Avis shot Sakamoto while at work on the score for "The Last Emperor" in London. Sakamoto also also appears in the video painting words and messages to an open shutter camera. Iggy Pop, who performs the vocals on "Risky", chose not appear to in the video, allowing his performance space to be occupied by the surrealist era robot.
The follow-up to
Blah Blah Blah,
Instinct (1988), was a turnaround in musical direction. Its stripped-back, guitar-based sound leaned further towards the sound of the Stooges than any his solo albums to date. His record label, which had most likely been expecting another
Blah Blah Blah, dropped him. Nevertheless, the
King Biscuit radio show recording of the Instinct tour (featuring guitarist
Andy McCoy and
Alvin Gibbs on bass) reaching Boston on
19 July 1988 remains one of punk-rock's most enduring live albums.
The 1990s
In 1990 Pop recorded
Brick by Brick, produced by
Don Was, with members of
Guns N' Roses and
The B-52s as guests, as well as backup vocals by many local
Hollywood groups, some of whom would be recruited for his band to tour and perform on his "Kiss My Blood" video (1991), directed by world-famous director
Tim Pope and filmed at the Olympia in Paris. The album was his first Gold-certified album in the U.S. (denoting sales of over 500,000 copies) and featured his first Top 40 U.S. hit, "Candy", a duet with B-52s singer
Kate Pierson.
Also in 1990, Pop starred in the controversial opera
The Manson Family by composer
John Moran, released on Point Music/Phillip Classics, where he sang the role of prosecutor
Vincent Bugliosi. That year he was also involved in the
Red Hot + Blue project, singing a version of
Well Did You Evah! in a duet with
Deborah Harry.
In 1991, Pop contributed the song "Why Was I Born (Freddy's Dead)" to the soundtrack of the film . The song also plays over the end credits of the film, with a compilation of clips from the
A Nightmare on Elm Street series running alongside the end credits.
In 1992, he collaborated with
Goran Bregović on the
soundtrack for the movie
Arizona Dream by
Emir Kusturica. Pop sang four of the songs: "In the Deathcar", "TV Screen", "Get the Money", and "This is a Film". Also in 1992, he collaborated with the NYC band
White Zombie. He recorded spoken word vocals on the intro and outro of the song "
Black Sunshine" as well as playing the character of a writer in the video shot for the song. He is singled out for special thanks in the liner notes of the band's album .
In 1993, Pop released
American Caesar, including two successful singles, "Wild America" and "Beside You". The following year Pop contributed to
Buckethead's album
Giant Robot, including the songs "Buckethead's Toy Store" and "Post Office Buddy".
In 1995, Pop again found mainstream fame when his 1977 song "
Lust for Life" was featured in the film
Trainspotting. A new video was recorded for the song, with clips from the film and studio footage of Iggy dancing with one of its stars,
Ewen Bremner. An Iggy Pop concert also served as a plot point in the film. The song has also been used in TV commercials for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines (with many music critics denouncing the usage of the song to promote peppy cruises) and as the theme music to
The Jim Rome Show, a nationally-syndicated American sports
talk show.
Also in 1995, Pop released
Naughty Little Doggie, with Whitey Kirst returning on guitar, and the single "I Wanna Live". In 1997 he remixed Raw Power to give it a rougher, more hard-edged sound; fans had complained for years that Bowie's official 'rescue effort' mix was muddy and lacking in bass. Pop testified in the reissue's liner notes that on the new mix, "everything's still in the red." He co-produced his 1999 album Avenue B'' with Don Was, releasing the single "Corruption". Pop produced 2001's
Beat 'Em Up, which gave birth to
The Trolls, releasing the single "Football" featuring Trolls alumni Whitey Kirst and brother Alex.
In the early to middle 1990s Pop would make several guest appearances on the
Nickelodeon show
The Adventures of Pete and Pete. He played James Mecklenberg, Nona Mecklenberg's father.
Recent career
Pop supplied vocals for the 1999
Death in Vegas UK Top 10 hit single "Aisha". He also sang on the song "
Rolodex Propaganda" by
At the Drive-In in 2000.
Pop's 2003 album,
Skull Ring, featured collaborations with
Sum 41,
Green Day,
Peaches, and
The Trolls, as well as the Asheton brothers, reuniting the three surviving founding members of
Stooges for the first time since 1974. He made a guest appearance on
electroclash artist
Peaches's song "Kick It" as well as the video. Also in 2003, the first full-length biography of Iggy was published by Omnibus Press.
Gimme Danger - The Story of Iggy Pop was written by Joe Ambrose. Pop didn't collaborate on the biography or publicly endorse it.
Having enjoyed working with Ron and Scott Asheton on
Skull Ring, Pop reformed the Stooges with bassist
Mike Watt (formerly of
the Minutemen) filling in for
Dave Alexander, and
Fun House saxophonist
Steve MacKay rejoining the lineup. They have been touring regularly since 2004. The same year, Pop opened
Madonna's Reinvention World Tour in Dublin.
In 2005 Pop appeared, along with Madonna,
Little Richard,
Bootsy Collins, and
The Roots'
?uestlove, in an American TV commercial for the
Motorola ROKR phone.
In early 2006, Iggy and the Stooges played in Australia and New Zealand for the
Big Day Out. They also began work on a new album,
The Weirdness, which was recorded by
Steve Albini and released in March 2007. In August 2006 Iggy and the Stooges performed at the
Lowlands pop festival in the
Netherlands, Hodokvas in
Slovakia and in the
Sziget festival in
Budapest.
Author
Paul Trynka completed a biography of Iggy Pop (with his blessing) called
Open Up and Bleed, published in early 2007.
More recently, Iggy and the Stooges played at
Bam Margera's
wedding and Pop can be heard on the single "
Punkrocker" with the
Teddybears in a
Cadillac television commercial. Pop is also the voice of Lil' Rummy on the
Comedy Central cartoon
Lil' Bush and confirmed that he's done voices for
American Dad and
Grand Theft Auto IV.
Iggy and The Stooges played the Glastonbury Festival in June 2007, which led to
Wellington Boot wearing crowd-surfers and a good-natured riot as Pop encouraged muddy festival goers to invade the stage. Their set included material from the 2007 album
The Weirdness and classics such as "
No Fun" and "
I Wanna Be Your Dog".
Pop also caused controversy in June 2007 when he was interviewed on the
BBC's coverage of the
Glastonbury Festival. He used the phrase "
paki shop", prompting three complaints and an apology from the BBC.
Pop is also appearing on
Profanation (Preparation for a Coming Darkness), the new album by the
Bill Laswell-helmed group
Praxis, which was released on
January 1,
2008.
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On March 10, 2008 Iggy appeared at
Madonna's induction into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the
Waldorf Astoria Hotel in
New York. Together with The Stooges he sang raucous versions of two Madonna hits "
Burning Up" and "
Ray of Light". Before leaving the stage he looked directly at Madonna quoting "You make me feel shiny and new, like a virgin, touched for the very first time." from "
Like A Virgin". According to guitarist Ron Asheton, Madonna asked The Stooges to perform in her place, as a protest to the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for not inducting The Stooges despite six appearances on the nomination ballot.
Pop features as the
DJ for the classic rock radio station in the videogame
Grand Theft Auto IV, which also plays The Stooges song; "
I Wanna Be Your Dog" even though the game's manual credits Iggy as the artist.
Film career
Pop has had a limited career as an actor. He has appeared in sixteen
movies, including
Sid and Nancy,
The Color of Money,
Hardware (voice only),,
The Rugrats Movie,
Snow Day,
Coffee and Cigarettes (opposite
Tom Waits, in the third segment of the film, "
Somewhere in California"),
Cry-Baby,
Dead Man,
Tank Girl and
Atolladero, a Spanish
science fiction Western. Pop also sings the main theme for
Atolladero.
He has been featured in five television series, including
Tales from the Crypt,
The Adventures of Pete & Pete, where he played Nona's dad in the second season, and, in which he played
Yelgrun in "
The Magnificent Ferengi" episode. With The Stooges, he was also featured in an episode of
MTV's Bam's Unholy Union as the main band performing at
Bam's wedding. Additionally, a portion of the music video for Iggy's "Butt Town" was featured on an episode of
Beavis and Butthead.
Pop has been profiled in four
rockumentaries and has had songs on eighteen
soundtracks, including
Crocodile Dundee 2,
Trainspotting,
Pretty Woman,
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and the main theme of
Repo Man.
In the movie
Velvet Goldmine, Ewan McGregor portrays Curt Wilde, a character loosely based on Iggy Pop. McGregor performs Pop's songs "TV Eye" and "Gimme Danger" in the film.
Pop voices Lil' Rummy on the
Comedy Central show
Lil' Bush.
Pop will provide the voice for a character in the English language version of the 2007 animated film
Persepolis.
In 2008, Iggy's music will be featured in a
movie adaption of
Irvine Welsh's best-selling novel .
Future biopic
The Passenger is an upcoming movie
biopic about Pop's early
career with the Stooges. The film will be directed by
Nick Gomez. It will start shooting within the next six months and is expected in theatres sometime during the summer of 2008. The movie's budget is in the $6 million to $8 million range.
Elijah Wood will play Pop.
Wood revealed during an
interview that he's "scared to death" of doing it, because he's a huge fan of Pop and he doesn't want to be the "person responsible for screwing that up." He also said the movie will chronicle
The Stooges era, for the most part.
Pop liked the
script but refused to take a part in the film, He said:
The script ain't chopped liver... It was a work of art. But subjectively, I don't want to be involved in any way. A producer and the writer sent me a very decent letter, and asked me to write back if I didn't want them to do it... I don't feel negative about it at all
Pop also said that Wood seems like a very poised and talented actor.
Classical scholarship
Unusually for a popular musician, Pop has been published in an established journal of Classical scholarship. His article "Caesar Lives"
(External Link) appears in the second Volume of
Classics Ireland (1995). The article considers the applicability of
Edward Gibbon's
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire to the modern world. Pop also relates how reading Gibbon while on tour in the
Southern United States inspired him to a spontaneous soliloquy he called "Caesar".
Influence
Pop earned a place in punk rock history by popularizing many of the stage routines that are now commonplace among musicians: he was among the first to
stage dive and "crowd walk". Moreover, early in his career, he was known to cut himself on stage. Although Pop has never recorded a
Top 10 album or best-selling single, his impact on rock music is widely acknowledged.
The song "Punk Rock" on the album
Come on Die Young by
Mogwai pays tribute to Iggy Pop, as it samples a speech that Pop gave on
punk rock from an interview on the
CBC on
March 11,
1977. During that interview,
Peter Gzowski asked Iggy to clarify music labeled as "punk rock." Pop, dubbed "the Godfather of Punk", sat upright in his chair and first attacked, then reappropriated, the use of "punk", ending his speech (or tirade) in indignant repose.
» I'll tell you about punk rock: punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and, uh... and, uh... heartless manipulators, about music... that takes up the energies, and the bodies, and the hearts and the souls and the time and the minds, of young men, who give what they've to it, and give everything they've to it. And it's a... it's a term that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll.'I don't know Johnny Rotten... but I'm sure, I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did.
» You see, what, what sounds to you like a big load of trashy old noise... is in fact... the brilliant music of a genius... myself. And that music is so powerful, that it's quite beyond my control. And, ah... when I'm in the grips of it, I don't feel pleasure and I don't feel pain, either physically or emotionally. Do you understand what I'm talking about? Have you ever, have you ever felt like that? When you just, when you just, you couldn't feel anything, and you didn't want to either. You know, like that? Do you understand what I'm saying, sir?
Pop's solo album
The Idiot has been cited as a major influence on
post-punk,
electronic and
industrial artists such as
Joy Division and
Nine Inch Nails. David Bowie's "
The Jean Genie" is about an Iggy Pop like character.
Mark E. Smith,
Henry Rollins,
Nick Cave and
Jack White have all been quoted as saying that the Stooges'
Fun House LP was "the greatest rock record ever made". Cave and
The Birthday Party once did a 45-minute set of only Stooges songs back in the early 1980s under the name of 'The Cave Men'. One of the most popular bands of
former Yugoslavia,
Azra, recorded a song entitled "Iggy Pop" on their first album, released in 1980. UK punk rock bands the She Devils and
Die Pretty released a split single called "Dance Like Iggy/Summertime" in 1999.
R.E.M. referenced Iggy Pop in the song, " I Took Your Name". The
Red Hot Chili Peppers referenced Iggy Pop in the song, "
Coffee Shop".
Kurt Cobain many times declared himself a fan of The Stooges and mentioned them frequently in his
Journals as an influence, naming
Raw Power his favorite album.
Covers
"I Wanna Be Your Dog" was covered by the
Swans on their
Children of God/World of Skin compilation, by
Sonic Youth on their LP
Confusion is Sex, by Thai/UK electro-punk band
Futon as their debut single, by French electronica artist
Emilie Simon, by
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts on the LP
Up Your Alley, and by Swedish rock band
bob hund. It also appears on the greatest hits collection of
alternative country band
Uncle Tupelo. The song has been a raucous encore mainstay of Texas roots rock artist
Alejandro Escovedo (formerly of
The Nuns, Rank and File, and True Believers ) and was finally put to "vinyl" on
More Miles Than Money: Live 1994-1996. The song was a favorite in early live performances of the Japanese rock band
Zelda. A parody/tribute version titled "I'm Gonna Be Your God" was recorded by
Slayer and released on their punk covers album
Undisputed Attitude in May 1996. Hundreds of other versions exist.
"
Search and Destroy" has been recorded almost as many times as "I Wanna Be Your Dog". It was covered by the
Red Hot Chili Peppers – it appeared as a B-side of "By the Way" and "Give it Away" as well as on the compilation
The Beavis and Butthead Experience album – and by the band
Emanuel for the
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland soundtrack. Moreover, he's referenced in the Red Hot Chili Peppers' song "
Coffee Shop" from their 1996 album
One Hot Minute. Nike used "Search and Destroy" in its 1996 Olympics promotion. The song is also featured in the 2004 film
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. It is also used in the video game
Guitar Hero II, allowing players to play the guitar and bass parts of the song.
A cover of "Gimme Some Skin" & "TV Eye" by
The 69 Eyes for the album
motor city resurrection and
Savage Garden.
A cover of "Gimme Danger" is appears in both a teaser trailer and in the 2007 game
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 peformed by
Frank Black & 3volution.
The song "Raw Power" was covered by
Daucus Karota and
Guns N' Roses for
"The Spaghetti Incident?" album.
Poison Idea covered the song "
I Got A Right" on their 1984 mini album
Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes.
Nada Surf also covered this song on the
We Will Fall Iggy Pop
tribute album.
The Adolescents also covered the song on their 1986 album
Brats in Battalions.
Rage Against the Machine covered "Down on the Street" on their last album
Renegades, which was a cover album.
David Bowie has rerecorded three tracks he co-wrote with Pop: "
China Girl" for the album
Let's Dance, and "Tonight" and "
Neighbourhood Threat" on
Tonight. Bowie also covered "
Don't Look Down" on
Tonight and "
Bang Bang" on
Never Let Me Down. He has also performed "Sister Midnight" many times in concert.
"
The Passenger" was covered by
Siouxsie & the Banshees on their album
Through the Looking Glass,
Bauhaus on their DVD
Gotham, and
INXS's
Michael Hutchence on the
Batman Forever soundtrack. The influential
Riot Grrl band
Lunachicks also recorded a version of the song. It was covered in Portuguese ("O Passageiro") by the Brazilian pop rock band
Capital Inicial.
Blake Babies covered "Loose" on their 1989 album,
earwig.
The song "1969" was covered by
goth rock band
The Sisters of Mercy (included on their singles collection
Some Girls Wander by Mistake), by
Mission of Burma on their posthumous live album
The Horrible Truth About Burma, and by
Joey Ramone on his solo album
Don't Worry About Me.
"1970" and was covered by
The Damned on their debut album
Damned, Damned, Damned, by
Charged GBH on their
City Baby's Revenge album, and by
Hanoi Rocks on their
All Those Wasted Years live album. All three instances were released under the song's alternate title of "I Feel Alright". The band
Monster Magnet also recorded a cover of "1970" and often add the song to their live set.
The song "No Fun" has been covered by
The Black Keys on
The Moan EP, by
Some Girls on
All My Friends Are Going Death, by
The Orb on
The Peel Sessions Volume 2 and by
The Sex Pistols.
The song "Funtime", co-written with Bowie, was covered and released as a single in 1995 by
Boy George, reaching the UK top 50. It is included on his album
Cheapness and Beauty. The track was also sung live around 1980 by
Blondie. It was also covered by
Peter Murphy on the album
Love Hysteria.
The song "Dirt" was covered by
Depeche Mode and appeared as a B-side on their single "
I Feel Loved" (2001). Martin Gore, Depeche Mode's songwriter, covered "Tiny Girls", the song co-written with David Bowie, for his 2003 solo album
Counterfeit2. "Dirt" was also covered by Chicago punkrock band
Screeching Weasel on their 2000 compilation
Thank You Very Little.
The song "Ordinary Bummer" was covered by
Blondie under the pseudonym Adolph's Dog.
"Funhouse" was covered by
Nick Cave's first band,
The Birthday Party, with
Jim Thirlwell of the band Foetus guesting on saxophone. This song appears on
Live 1981-82, which wasn't released as a CD until 1999.
The Birthday Party also covered the Stooges' "Loose" and recordings from 1981-82 were issued on
Drunk on the Pope's Blood (released 1982), and on
The Peel Sessions (released 2001).
The dirge-like "We Will Fall", from the Stooge's first album, was covered by
Sky Cries Mary on their 1993 album
A Return to the Inner Experience.
UK Punk band the Bleach Boys (http://www.thebleachboys.co.uk), continue to regularly cover "Down on the Street" which appears on the Stooges
Fun House album.
Discography
Albums
With The Stooges
With James Williamson
1977 - Kill City
Solo
Studio
1977 - The Idiot
1977 - Lust for Life
1979 - New Values
1980 - Soldier
1981 - Party
1982 - Zombie Birdhouse
1986 - Blah Blah Blah
1988 - Instinct
1990 - Brick by Brick
1993 - American Caesar
1996 - Naughty Little Doggie
1999 - Avenue B
2001 - Beat 'Em Up
2003 - Skull Ring
Live
1978 - TV Eye Live 1977
1994 - Berlin 91
1996 - Best Of...Live
Compilations
1996 - Pop Music
1996 -
1997- We Will Fall
2005 - Further Information
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