After its release Scott Thurston was added to the band on keyboards/electric piano and Bowie continued his support, but Iggy's drug problem persisted. The recording sessions produced the rock landmark Raw Power. Also, Ron Asheton grudgingly moved from guitar to bass to make way for Williamson to play guitar. It would not be a true reunion insofar as Dave Alexander, due to alcoholism, was unable to play on the record (he died in 1975). However, since neither Pop nor Bowie was satisfied with any players in England, they decided to re-unite The Stooges. With James Williamson signed on as guitarist, the search began for a rhythm section. Pop's career received a boost from his relationship with Bowie when Bowie decided in 1972 to produce an album with Pop in England. In 1971, Iggy Pop and David Bowie met at Max's Kansas City, a nightclub and restaurant in New York City. Shortly after the new members joined, the group disbanded because of Pop's growing heroin addiction. The Stooges' first two albums The Stooges, (on which Iggy was credited, much to his displeasure, as "Iggy Stooge"), produced by John Cale and Fun House, sold poorly. In 1968, one year after their live debut and now dubbed The Stooges, the band signed with Elektra Records, again following in the footsteps of The Doors, who were Elektra's biggest act at the time (reportedly, Pop called Moe Howard to see if it was all right to call his band "The Stooges," to which Howard responded by merely saying "I don't care what they call themselves, as long as they're not the Three Stooges!" and hung up the phone). Other exploits of Pop include rolling around in broken glass, exposing himself to the crowd and vomiting on stage. Pop was the first performer to do a stage-dive, which he started at a concert in Detroit. Morrison's extreme behavior, while performing in a popular band, inspired the young Pop to push the boundaries of stage performance. The seeds of Iggy Pop's stage persona were sown when he saw The Doors perform in 1967 at the University of Michigan and was amazed by the stage antics and antagonism displayed by singer Jim Morrison. The band was composed of Iggy on vocals, Ron Asheton on guitar, Asheton's brother Scott on drums, and Dave Alexander on bass. Inspired by Chicago blues as well as bands like The Sonics and The MC5, he formed the Psychedelic Stooges and began calling himself Iggy. While in Chicago, he played drums in blues clubs, helped by Sam Lay (formerly of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band) who shared his connections with Iggy. After exploring local blues-style bands such as the Prime Movers (with brothers Dan and Michael Erlewine), he eventually dropped out of the University of Michigan and moved to Chicago to learn more about blues. His later stage name, Iggy, is derived from one of these early bands, the Iguanas. Osterberg began his music career as a drummer in various high school bands in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Prime Movers, featuring Pop on drums His father was adopted by a Swedish American family and took on their surname (Österberg). He is of Irish and English descent on his father's side, and of Norwegian and Danishancestry on his mother's. Osterberg was raised in a trailer park just off old U.S. was born in Muskegon, Michigan, the son of Louella (née Christensen) and James Newell Osterberg, Sr., a former high school English teacher and baseball coach at Fordson High School in Dearborn, Michigan. 4 Cultural references, cameos and miscellaneous.2.7 The Stooges reunion: 2003 to present.In 2010, The Stooges were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Though his popularity has fluctuated through the years, many of Pop's songs have become well-known, including " Lust for Life", " The Passenger", " Real Wild Child", " Candy" (a duet with Kate Pierson of The B-52's), " China Girl", " Nightclubbing", " Search and Destroy" and " I Wanna Be Your Dog". He is vocalist of influential protopunk band The Stooges (Pop and the other surviving members of the group reunited in 2003), having become known, since the late 1960s, for his outrageous and unpredictable stage antics. Pop became known as 'Iggy' in high school, during which time he served as drummer for local blues band The Iguanas.
Though widely known as an innovator and "godfather" of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, hard rock, jazz and blues. April 21, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Iggy Pop ( / ˈ ɪ ɡ i p ɑː p / born James Newell Osterberg, Jr.