| Please help convert this timeline into prose or, if necessary, a list.April 21, 1947, in Muskegon, Michigan), better known by his stage name Iggy Pop, is an American rock singer, songwriter, and occasional actor.Although he has had only limited commercial success, Iggy Pop is considered one of the most important innovators of punk and related styles.The Stooges became infamous for their live performances, during which it was not uncommon for Iggy Pop to leap off the stage (in fact, he was among the first to "stage dive").Iggy Pop's life and career titled The Passenger is currently in development.The Stooges era: 1968 to 1975
2.Bowie and Berlin: 1976 to 1978
2.Film career
4 Future biopic
5 Classical scholarship
6 Influence
7 Covers
8 Discography
8.Early life
Iggy Pop was born in Muskegon, Michigan to James Newell Osterberg, Sr.English teacher and baseball coach at Fordson High School in Dearborn, Michigan, and Louella Christensen.He is of Irish and English descent on his father's side, and of Danish and Norwegian ancestry on his mother's.Early days: 1960 to 1967
Iggy Pop began his music career as a drummer in different high school bands in Ann Arbor, Michigan.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 called himself Iggy Stooge.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.Pop to push the boundaries of stage performance.One year after their debut, and now dubbed the Stooges, in 1968 the band were signed to Elektra Records (again following in the footsteps of The Doors, who were arguably Elektra's biggest act at the time).Shortly after the new members joined, the group disbanded because of Pop's growing heroin addiction.David Bowie helped to rejuvenate Iggy Pop's career by producing an album with him in England.With James Williamson signed on as guitarist, the search began for a rhythm section.It would not be a true reunion, in that Dave Alexander would not play on the album.Also, Ron Asheton grudgingly moved from guitar to bass to make way for Williamson to play guitar.Bowie continued his support, but Iggy's drug problem persisted.Bowie and Berlin: 1976 to 1978
After the second breakup of the Stooges, Iggy Pop made some recordings with James Williamson, but these weren't released until 1977 (as Kill City, credited jointly to Iggy Pop and Williamson).Bowie was one of his few visitors there, and he continued to support his friend and collaborator.In 1976, Bowie took him along as his companion on the Station to Station tour.Bowie and Iggy Pop relocated to West Berlin to wean themselves off their addictions.Iggy Pop signed with RCA and Bowie helped write and produce The Idiot and Lust for Life (both 1977), Pop's two most acclaimed albums as a solo artist, the latter with another team of brothers, Hunt and Tony Sales.Bowie also played keyboards in Pop's live performances, some of which are featured on the album TV Eye (1978).The Arista albums: 1979 to 1981
Iggy Pop was unhappy with RCA.Stooge Scott Thurston playing guitar and keyboards.Not surprisingly, the album's style veered back to the guitar sound of the Stooges.The album was moderately successful in Australia and New Zealand, however, and this led to Iggy Pop's first visit there to promote it.During his anarchic performance of "I'm Bored", Pop made no attempt to conceal the fact that he was miming, and he even tried to grab the teenage girls in the audience.He was also interviewed by host Ian "Molly" Meldrum, an exchange which was frequently punctuated by the singer jumping up and down on his chair and making loud exclamations of "G'day mate" in a mock Australian accent.His Countdown appearance is generally considered one of the highlights of the show's history and it cemented his popularity with Australian punk fans; since then he has often toured there.While visiting New Zealand, Iggy Pop recorded a music video for "I'm Bored", featuring him outside and inside The Beehive, part of the country's Parliament buildings.TV interview show on the Ten Network.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.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".Bowie's intention was to help his friend get out of the clutches of the IRS.It remains Pop's solitary brush with major commercial success.Rule was released featuring performances by Iggy Pop and Lou Reed for the character Mok.In 1987, Pop appeared (along with Bootsy Collins) on a mostly instrumental album by Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.Blah Blah Blah, Instinct (1988), was a turnaround in musical direction.Stooges than any his solo albums to date.Tim Pope and filmed at the Olympia in Paris.Note that the year of release is also contained in lyrics of this song ("It's rainy afternoon in 1990").Phillip Classics, where he sang the role of prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi.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 Bregovic on the soundtrack for the movie Arizona Dream by Emir Kusturica.In 1994, Iggy helped contribute with Buckethead on his album "Giant Robot".One of which was "Buckethead's Toy Store", as well as on the track "Post Office Buddy".In 1995, Pop again found mainstream fame when his 1977 song "Lust for Life" was featured prominently in the film Trainspotting.Iggy dancing with one of its stars, Ewen Bremner; an Iggy Pop concert was an important plot point, as it dissolved the relationship between Tommy and Lizzie.Also in 1995, Pop released Naughty Little Doggie, with Whitey Kirst returning on guitar, and the single "I Wanna Live".Avenue B with Don Was, releasing the single "Corruption", and produced 2001's Beat 'Em Up, which gave birth to The Trolls, releasing the single "Football" featuring Trolls alumni Whitey Kirst and brother Alex.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."In the early to middle 1990s Iggy Pop would make several guest appearances on the Nickelodeon show The Adventures of Pete and Pete.He played James Mecklenberg, Nona Mecklenberg's father.Iggy Pop at Beale Street Music Festival, Memphis in May 2007.Pop supplied vocals for the 1999 Death in Vegas UK Top 10 hit single "Aisha".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 two surviving founding members of Stooges for the first time since 1974.The Story of Iggy Pop was written by Joe Ambrose.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.In 2005 Pop appeared, along with Madonna, Little Richard, Bootsy Collins, and The Roots' ?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.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.Their set included material from the 2007 album The Weirdness and classics such as "No Fun" and "I Wanna Be Your Dog".Film career
Pop has had a limited career as an actor.Pete, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, 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.In the movie Velvet Goldmine, Ewan McGregor portrays Curt Wilde, a character based on Iggy Pop, and also performs Pop's song TV Eye.Pop will provide the voice for a character in the English language version of the 2007 animated film Persepolis.Future biopic
The Passenger is an upcoming movie biopic about Pop's early career with the Stooges.It will start shooting within the next six months and is expected in theatres sometime during the summer of 2008.Elijah Wood will play Pop.Wood revealed during an interview that he is "scared to death" of doing it, because he is 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 also said that Wood seems like a very poised and talented actor.Volume of Classics Ireland (1995) considers the applicability of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire to the modern world.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.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.Pop, dubbed "the Godfather of Punk," sat upright in his chair and defended the use of "punk", ending his speech (or tirade) in indignant repose.And that music is so powerful, that it's quite beyond my control.Do you understand what I'm talking about?Have you ever, have you ever felt like that?Do you understand what I'm saying, sir?David Bowie's "The Jean Genie" is about an Iggy Pop like character.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".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.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
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.Nike used "Search and Destroy" in its 1996 Olympics promotion.It is also used in the video game Guitar Hero II, allowing players to play the guitar and bass parts of the song.Pop: "China Girl" for the album Let's Dance, and "Tonight" and "Neighbourhood Threat" on Tonight.He has also performed "Sister Midnight" many times in concert.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.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.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.The band Monster Magnet also recorded a cover of "1970" and often add the song to their live set.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.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.An Anthology of alternative country band Uncle Tupelo.The song was a favorite in early live performances of the Japanese rock band Zelda."I'm Gonna Be Your God" was recorded by Slayer and released on their punk covers album Undisputed Attitude in May 1996.Iggy Pop: Open up and Bleed.Iggy Pop interview with Peter Gzowski March 11, 1977.Iggy Pop faxed rant and interview with Joshua Berger August 1995.See Copyrights for details.As if you need another reason to love Iggy Pop, the veteran rocker (and his band The Stooges) have the single most entertaining concert rider TSG has ever obtained.Apparently written by roadie Jos Grain, the Iggy rider is peppered with witty gems, tasteless asides, and typos.Er, do you know any homosexuals?"Explaining the need for two heavy duty fans, Grain notes, "So that I can wear a scarf and pretend to be in a Bon Jovi video.""Pearl Jam, Amy Winehouse, Lupe Fiasco, M.Detroit), Osterberg began playing drums and formed his first band, the Iguanas, in the early '60s.Via the Rolling Stones, Osterberg discovered the blues, forming a similarly styled outfit, called the Prime Movers, upon graduating from high school in 1965.When a brief stint at the University of Michigan didn't work out, Osterberg moved to Chicago, playing drums alongside bluesmen.It was around this time that the group shortened their name to the Stooges, and Osterberg changed his stage name to Iggy Pop.But Stooges fan David Bowie tracked down Pop and convinced the newly clean and sober singer to restart his career.Signed by Columbia Records and hoping to follow in Bowie's footsteps toward a major commercial breakthrough, the Stooges penned another punk classic, the brutally explosive Raw Power.By 1974, Pop and most of the Stooges were strung out again on drugs, and with their star fading, the band called it quits for a second (and final) time.After spending a brief spell homeless on the streets of Hollywood (during which time there was an unsuccessful attempt to form a band with Pop and former Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek), Pop checked himself into the Neuropsychiatric Institute in Los Angeles.During his hospital stay, another old friend came to visit him: David Bowie.Bowie (whose career was still in high gear) offered to take Pop on the road with him during his tour in support of Station to Station.Both albums sold better than his previous efforts with the Stooges (especially in the U.Pop was looked upon as an icon by the burgeoning punk rock movement) as Bowie joined Pop on his world tour as a keyboardist.Blah Blah Blah, which featured his first U.With just about every new rock band listing the Stooges as a major influence by the late '90s, Iggy began tentatively looking back to the band's legacy.In 2004 Iggy appeared in Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes.Pop released a collection of new songs, Where the Faces Shine, the following year.Create a configuration object and add the keywords to the conf.Iggy Pop proved to be the ultimate "Halloween in Las Vegas" act for Vegoose, leading his merry band of Stooges through a recreation of their classic 1970 album, 'Fun House.It was a musical costume of sorts and Pop, always the entertainer, seemed..."No toy robots, television evangelists ...No plastic seahorses, no bailiwicks, crepescules (sic) or kooks."Iggy Pop
"The Rock Iguana's" hilarious 18 pages of perplexing, meticulously detailed requests undoubtedly left venues around the world...Rock's Hardest Partiers: No.Iggy PopWhen young James Osterberg was voted "most likely to succeed," no one could have guessed he would succeed as Iggy Pop, rock's most dangerous man.Want More Iggy Pop?Highlights: A smokin version of her hit single Tambourine and a killer verse from Party Like a Rockstar.DelegateListener('yuimenuitem', 'hd', 'click', YAHOO. |
