When the less family-friendly groups rolled into town, the MC5, Doors and Sonics, Jimmy would be stage front, sucking up the energy. He is a one-of-a-kind artist.īorn in suburban Michigan in 1947 the young Osterberg began his musical career as a drummer in various Ann Arbor bands, including The Iguanas (from whence his stage name) and at first, he immersed himself in traditional urban blues, inspired by Paul Butterfield’s skins man Sam Lay. If he plays a role then he’s perfect for the part he created. You’re just as likely to find him hunkered down with a copy of Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as you are trashing a backline of amplifiers. For all his street credibility and flamboyant image Iggy is no fool. Inducted with The Stooges into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010 he has managed to parlay a uniquely anarchic stance into something that flirts with mainstream acceptance but is never diluted by compromise.
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He made truly seminal albums with The Stooges for Elektra Records before embarking on a long and brilliant solo career that has given us such epics as Lust For Life, The Idiotand TV Eye and chart success with ‘Nightclubbing’, ‘China Girl’ and ‘The Passenger’.
Outrage, theatricality and the sensual side of performance informed his own act from year zero. An innovator with origins in garage punk bands, he saw the light at an early Doors concert where his hero Jim Morrison’s stage antics sparked the idea that he could do follow suit. James Jewel Osterberg, aka as Iggy Pop, Iggy Stooge or The Ig, is one of American rock’s greatest characters.
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