Everybody has a shadow and I like to project a big one.”īy 1978, he was reflecting on the massive influence that the Stooges had on the punk and new wave scene. I’m greedy, crooked and vain, and I like to profile. “I’ve always been lucky,” he said in that Melody Maker interview. That lust is still what makes Iggy tick today. As a solo artist on album, Pop rose up in 1977 with the one-two attack of the albums The Idiot and Lust For Life, just five months apart. With the group, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. Here, undoubtedly and unavoidably, was a stage persona that made him one of the quintessential wild men of rock. With the groundbreaking Stooges, on disc from 1969, Iggy was a hugely magnetic and influential focal point. But as rock’n’roll began to mutate into a more flamboyant and libidinous rock format, the man by now known as Iggy Pop took inspiration from the Morrisons and the Jaggers, and developed his own unique personality on stage and record. That was his first instrument in his early local bands. It’s fair to say that as one of the quintessential frontmen and figureheads in rock music history, he’s done ok for a drummer. Osterberg was born in Muskegon, on the shores of Lake Michigan. And in 2016, Post Pop Depression became his highest-charting in the US, and his first Top 10 set in the UK. Lonnie Smith on covers of “Why Can’t We Live Together” and “Sunshine Superman.” Earlier, he was in Terence Malick’s 2017 experimental romantic drama Song To Song, also starring Ryan Gosling and Natalie Portman. In 2021, he popped up (pun intended) in his latest unexpected setting, guesting with Dr. “All the while,” wrote Rolling Stone of it, “Pop flexes his baritone, expressing himself more clearly than perhaps ever before.” He released his 18th studio album Free in September 2019. Iggy Pop, born James Osterberg on April 21, 1947, continues to push the boundaries and challenge himself and the rest of us.
“Lock Up Your Daughters, Iggy’s Here,” ran a Melody Maker headline in 1972.
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