and Kill City, were semi-bootleg issues of older Stooges-era material. Concurrently, Bowie produced Pop's 1977 albums The Idiot and Lust for Life, meditations on modern malaise that benefited from Bowie's professionalism other albums of this period, like Metallic K.O. In 1976 Bowie took Iggy with him on his European tour, after which they settled in Berlin for three years. mental hospital and was visited by Bowie (whose "Jean Genie" on the 1973 Aladdin Sane is said to be about Iggy). Iggy spent 19 in L.A., trying to solve assorted legal problems. Through 1973 there was a return to drug addiction and by the next year the band nearly imploded. Bowie regrouped some of the Stooges and produced Raw Power (1973), a critical success.Ī dispute with Bowie's manager Tony DeFries forced Iggy and the re-formed Stooges onto the road without a manager.
Around this time, he ran into David Bowie, who resolved to resurrect Iggy's career. The band went through various personnel changes following Fun House, eventually breaking up, with Iggy retiring for more than a year to kick a heroin addiction. Though their first two albums, The Stooges (1969) and Fun House (1970), would be hailed as seminal punk a decade later, the records sold only moderately upon release. In 1968, the Doors' label Elektra signed the band, which also included Ron Asheton on guitar, his brother Scott Asheton on drums, and Dave Alexander on bass. Some thought the band was the embodiment and the future of rock others were appalled.
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They debuted on Halloween 1967 in Ann Arbor and were appropriately frightening onstage: Iggy contorted his shirtless torso, let out primal screams, rubbed peanut butter and raw steaks over his body, gouged his skin with broken glass, and dove into the crowd (a full two decades before stage diving became the norm) while the Stooges played raw, basic, hard rock & roll. He returned to Detroit as Iggy Stooge and, inspired by a Doors concert, formed the Stooges. He dropped out of the University of Michigan in 1966 and went to Chicago, where he listened to urban blues on the South Side. Acting as an eternal misfit and a saboteur of all convention, Iggy has parlayed twisted social commentary, raw-power vocal style, and survival smarts into a long career characterized by some commercial success, sizable critical notice, and huge amounts from of respect all over the pop landscape.īorn James Newell Osterberg in Muskegon, Michigan, on April 21, 1947, he played drums as a teen in a local garage band, the Iguanas. With his outrageous and sometimes dangerous stage antics and the relentless rock & roll that accompanied them, Iggy Pop prefigured both Seventies punk and Nineties grunge.
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