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  • Iggy Pop, born James Newell Osterberg Jr., built a reputation on rolling around in broken glass while a crowd watched. Admirers eventually called him the "Godfather of Punk". His first band sold few records, yet its songs outlasted much of what outsold it. The man who made audiences flinch was also a drummer from a trailer park, a student of acting, and a friend whom David Bowie would not abandon. How did a well-behaved teenager grow into a performer who hurt himself on stage? Why did one friendship matter so much to his survival? And why do so many later bands trace their sound back to him?

  • James Newell Osterberg Jr. was born in Muskegon, Michigan, on the 21st of April 1947. His father taught English and coached baseball at Fordson High School in Dearborn. The family lived in a trailer park in Ypsilanti.

    At the age of nine, he toured Ford's River Rouge Plant, and the clatter of Michigan's factories became an early musical inspiration. He took up drums in the fifth grade, starting with rubber pads glued to a sheet of plywood. His parents then bought him a real drum set.

    In a 2007 Rolling Stone interview, he described what that support meant. "I had the tremendous investment my parents made in me," he said. The only room big enough for the kit was the trailer's master bedroom. In his words, "They gave me their bedroom."

    At Tappan Junior High School in Ann Arbor, Ron Asheton remembered him as a conventional kid. Asheton said, "He hung out with the popular kids that wore chinos, cashmere sweaters, and penny loafers. Iggy didn't smoke cigarettes, didn't get high, didn't drink."

    In 1965, he was drumming for the Iguanas, an Ann Arbor high school band that covered records such as Bo Diddley's "Mona". He then joined a local blues-style group, the Prime Movers, at 18. The group featured brothers Dan and Michael Erlewine and gave him the nickname "Iggy", a nod to the Iguanas. One biographer says his two years there taught him about "art, politics, and experimentation".

    He eventually dropped out of the University of Michigan and moved to Chicago to learn more about the blues. There he played drums in blues clubs, helped by Sam Lay, formerly of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, who shared his own connections with the newcomer.

  • The Psychedelic Stooges formed with Osterberg on vocals, Ron Asheton on guitar, Ron's brother Scott on drums and Dave Alexander on bass. Chicago blues shaped them, along with the Sonics and the MC5. Their first show was a Halloween party at a house in Detroit, and members of the MC5 were in the crowd.

    Osterberg had picked Ron Asheton after watching him play in a covers band called the Chosen Few. His reasoning was blunt: "I've never met a convincing musician that didn't look kind of ill and kind of dirty, and Ron had those two things covered!"

    The Ashetons and Alexander gave their singer a second nickname. They called him "Pop", after a local character named Jim Popp, whom he was said to resemble once he had shaved his eyebrows.

    A trip to New York gave the group its jolt of ambition. On Eighth Street, they met girls from Princeton, New Jersey, who had a band called the Untouchable. The girls invited the visitors home to hear them play. In a 1995 Bust interview, Pop recalled that the girls "completely rocked, and we were really ashamed."

    In 1968, the band signed with Elektra Records, the label of the Doors, then its biggest act. The name "Stooges" nearly caused trouble. In Jim Jarmusch's 2016 film Gimme Danger, Pop recalls Ron Asheton phoning Moe Howard to ask permission. Howard replied, "I don't care what they call themselves, as long as they're not The Three Stooges!" Then he hung up.

    The debut album, The Stooges, was produced by John Cale in New York in 1969, with Pop credited as "Iggy Stooge". Fun House followed in 1970, produced by Don Gallucci in Los Angeles. Both sold poorly, although Rolling Stone ranked Fun House at No. 191 on its 500 greatest albums list in 2003.

    Shortly after Fun House appeared, the group split because of Pop's worsening heroin addiction.

  • In 1967, Pop watched the Doors play at the University of Michigan and saw singer Jim Morrison goad the audience into a near-riot. People rushed the stage. Pop was struck by the fact that a band with a hit single could behave that way. His own reaction, he said, was "Hey, I can do that."

    Mick Jagger and James Brown shaped his vocal style and persona as well. He took what he liked from all three and pushed further.

    The Stooges became known for confrontational shows that sometimes included self-mutilation by Pop. He usually, though not always, performed bare-chested. He also exposed himself to audiences. He was among the first performers to stage-dive, and he helped make it a common move at rock shows.

    The stunts carried a price. During a 1981 show in Brooklyn, he smashed a microphone into his own face and knocked out a front tooth. In 1997, he dove from the stage at the Polaris Amphitheatre, but the crowd failed to catch him. He dislocated a shoulder and damaged a tendon.

    In March 2010, another stage-diving accident led him to announce that he was finished with it. He was not. On the 30th of April 2010, he dove three times at a concert in Madrid. On the 2nd of May 2010, he did it again at London's Hammersmith Apollo. On the 9th of July 2010, a dive at Rock Zottegem in Belgium left his face bleeding. Years later, around the time of his 2023 album, he said once more that he was done with stage-diving.

  • At Max's Kansas City, a nightclub and restaurant in New York, Pop met David Bowie in 1971. The Stooges were then playing small clubs without a record deal. They were a five-piece with Ron Asheton and James Williamson on guitars and Jimmy Recca on bass. The year before, Pop had fired Dave Alexander, who turned up to a gig too drunk to play.

    In 1972, Bowie decided to produce an album with Pop in England. With Williamson signed as guitarist, they needed a rhythm section. Neither man liked the English players they found, so they reunited the Stooges. Ron Asheton grudgingly switched to bass. The sessions produced Raw Power, released in 1973.

    Keyboardist Scott Thurston joined afterward, and Bowie kept helping, but Pop's drug problem persisted. The Stooges' last show in 1974 ended in a fight with a group of bikers, captured on the album Metallic K.O. Years later, Pop remixed Raw Power himself. Fans had long complained that Bowie's mix was muddy and thin on bass. Of his harder-edged version, Pop wrote that "everything's still in the red".

    After the breakup, Pop recorded with Williamson, but those tracks only appeared in 1977 as Kill City. Unable to control his drug use, he checked into the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. Bowie was one of his few visitors.

    In 1976, Bowie took Pop along on the Station to Station tour, his first taste of large-scale professional touring. He admired Bowie's work ethic. After a show on the 21st of March 1976, the two were arrested together in Rochester, New York, for marijuana possession. The charges were later dropped.

    They then moved to West Berlin to wean themselves off drugs. Pop remembered Thursday nights as the week's big event. Anyone still able to crawl to the sofa watched Starsky & Hutch.

    In 1977, Pop signed with RCA Records. Bowie helped write and produce The Idiot and Lust for Life, the two most acclaimed albums of Pop's solo career. Lust for Life included "The Passenger", and brothers Hunt and Tony Fox Sales, sons of comedian Soupy Sales, played on it. Pop usually supplied the lyrics. Bowie later recorded several of their joint songs, including "Tonight" and "Sister Midnight". The latter reappeared with new words as "Red Money" on Lodger.

    Bowie also played keyboards at Pop's live shows, some of which became the 1978 album TV Eye Live. Pop sang backing vocals on Bowie's Low in return.

    Pop's memory of this period was mixed. "Artistically, I really like those two records," he said, "But I was personally just miserable." He added, "For more than a year, I lived in the room next door, and I had a good friendship, but it wasn't the same as being in a band."

  • By 1979, Pop had grown unhappy at RCA. He later admitted that he made TV Eye Live mainly to fulfil the last of a three-album contract. He moved to Arista Records and released New Values, produced by Williamson, with Scott Thurston on guitar and keyboards. It echoed the guitar sound of the Stooges. It flopped in the United States but is now well regarded by critics.

    The album did moderately well in Australia and New Zealand, which brought Pop there for the first time. In Melbourne, he appeared on the national television show Countdown to perform "I'm Bored". He made no effort to hide that he was lip-synching and at one point shoved the microphone down his pants. Host Molly Meldrum interviewed him while he bounced on a chair and shouted "G'day mate" in a mock Australian accent. The appearance is considered a highlight in the show's history and has been re-screened often.

    During the making of Soldier in 1980, Pop and Bowie argued with Williamson, who left the project. Bowie sang backing vocals on "Play it Safe" alongside the group Simple Minds. Soldier and the 1981 follow-up Party both failed commercially, and Arista dropped Pop.

    In 1982, he released Zombie Birdhouse on Chris Stein's Animal label, which sold no better. That year he also published his autobiography I Need More, co-written with Anne Wehner and introduced by Andy Warhol. Warhol said he first met Pop as Jim Osterberg at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 1966. "I don't know why he hasn't made it really big," Warhol wrote. "He is so good."

    Pop's luck turned in 1983, when Bowie recorded a cover of "China Girl", which first appeared on The Idiot. It became a major hit on Bowie's Let's Dance album. As co-writer, Pop collected substantial royalties. In 1984, Bowie recorded five more of their joint songs on Tonight, which gave Pop financial security. He used it to take a three-year break, kick a resurgent heroin addiction and take acting classes.

    In 1984, he contributed the title song to the film Repo Man, with Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols on guitar and Nigel Harrison and Clem Burke of Blondie on bass and drums. In 1985, he made demos with Jones, and Bowie liked them enough to produce Blah-Blah-Blah in 1986. Its single "Real Wild Child" covered "The Wild One", written by Australian musician Johnny O'Keefe in 1958. It reached the UK Top 10. In Australia, it has served since 1987 as the theme for the late-night video show Rage. The album peaked at No. 75 on the Billboard 200, his best U.S. showing since The Idiot.

    Instinct in 1988 swung back to a stripped-down guitar sound close to the Stooges. His label dropped him. Pop also revoked the copyrights to his RCA releases, assigned them to his company Thousand Mile, and signed with Virgin Records. Virgin reissued Lust for Life and The Idiot in 1990.

    That year he recorded Brick by Brick with producer Don Was. It contained "Candy", a duet with Kate Pierson of the B-52's, his only U.S. Top 40 hit.

    In 1996, the film Trainspotting put "Lust for Life" back in front of a mass audience. A new video mixed clips from the film with studio footage of Pop dancing with co-star Ewen Bremner. The song has since appeared in Royal Caribbean commercials and served as the theme to The Jim Rome Show.

  • Johnny Depp became a collaborator in the 1990s. Pop appeared alongside him in Cry-Baby and Dead Man, and he was credited with the soundtrack to Depp's film The Brave. Depp, director Jim Jarmusch and tattoo artist Jonathan Shaw became his friends. Shaw said the four wore matching skull rings. Jarmusch later directed Gimme Danger and cast Pop as a zombie in The Dead Don't Die in 2019.

    Other film credits include a non-speaking cameo in Sid and Nancy and a part in The Color of Money. He appeared opposite Tom Waits in Coffee and Cigarettes and played Rat Face in Tank Girl. In Snow Day in 2000, he played a DJ at an ice rink. He wanted the role of Funboy in the original The Crow, but his recording schedule got in the way. James O'Barr had already modelled the character on him.

    On television, he played Nona's father in the second and third seasons of Nickelodeon's The Adventures of Pete & Pete. On the 1st of January 1998, he guest-starred in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Magnificent Ferengi". He voiced Texas Red on the Adult Swim cartoon Mr. Pickles from 2014 to 2019. In The Venture Bros., he appears as a bodyguard to a villain modelled on Bowie.

    In Grand Theft Auto IV, he plays himself as DJ of the fictional station Liberty Rock Radio 97.8. The Stooges song "I Wanna Be Your Dog" airs on that same station.

    His weekly show "Iggy Confidential" runs on BBC Radio 6 Music and ranges from punk to jazz. He uses it to champion newer acts, including Shame, Fat White Family, False Heads and Sleaford Mods. On the 14th of October 2014, he delivered the BBC Music John Peel Lecture in Salford, titled "Free Music in a Capitalist Society".

    In 1995, the journal Classics Ireland published a short essay by Pop, "Caesar Lives", on what Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire says about the modern world. Reading Gibbon on tour in the Southern United States had sparked a spontaneous soliloquy he called "Caesar", which ended up on his 1993 album American Caesar.

    As of 2007, a biopic called The Passenger was planned, with Nick Gomez directing and Elijah Wood as Pop. Pop liked the script but refused any involvement. He called it "a work of art" and Wood "a very poised and talented actor". The project appears to have been shelved.

  • The 2003 album Skull Ring reunited Pop with Ron and Scott Asheton, the three surviving founding members of the Stooges, for the first time since 1974. Guests included Sum 41, Green Day and Peaches. Pop then reformed the Stooges, with Mike Watt on bass in place of the late Dave Alexander and Steve Mackay back on saxophone. Steve Albini recorded their 2007 album The Weirdness, and the band played Glastonbury that June.

    On the 10th of March 2008, the Stooges performed at Madonna's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, singing "Burning Up" and "Ray of Light". According to Ron Asheton, Madonna asked them to play in her place as a protest, since the Stooges had appeared on six nomination ballots without being inducted.

    On the 6th of January 2009, Ron Asheton, Pop's self-described best friend, was found dead of an apparent heart attack at 60. James Williamson rejoined the band later that year after 29 years away. The Stooges were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the 15th of March 2010. Scott Asheton died of a heart attack in March 2014, at 64.

    On the 22nd of June 2016, Williamson announced the end of the band: "The Stooges is over. Basically, everybody's dead except Iggy and I."

    Pop did not stop. Post Pop Depression, made with Josh Homme and released on the 18th of March 2016, gave him his first U.S. Top 20 album and his first UK Top 5 album. In 2017, France made him a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in January 2020 and the Polar Music Prize on the 25th of May 2022. NPR named him one of its 50 Great Voices, and in 2023 Rolling Stone ranked him No. 176 among the 200 greatest singers.

    His music has moved through garage rock, punk, hard rock, heavy metal, art rock, new wave, grunge, jazz, blues and electronic styles. His voice has been described as ranging from "baritone croons to unhinged shrieks". Raw Power influenced the Sex Pistols, the Smiths and Nirvana, and Kurt Cobain listed it as his favorite album of all time in his Journals. The Idiot influenced Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails and Joy Division. Siouxsie Sioux called it a "re-affirmation that our suspicions were true: the man is a genius."

    Early press support came from Lester Bangs, who wrote "Of Pop and Pies and Fun" for Creem. In 1995, Mojo placed all three Stooges albums in its 100 greatest albums feature, with Fun House highest at No. 16. The Australian band Radio Birdman took its name, slightly mangled, from the lyrics of the Stooges song "1970".

    His legacy also carries a shadow. At 23, Pop allegedly had a relationship with Sable Starr, a 13-year-old groupie. Since the rise of the MeToo movement, he has been criticized for it. The documentary Look Away, about sexual abuse in the rock music industry, takes its name from his song about Starr.

    In 2024, Pop re-recorded "The Passenger" with Siouxsie Sioux as a slower, orchestral duet. On the 27th of September 2025, he headlined the CBGB Festival in Brooklyn, New York, the city where the Stooges first met the girls who made them feel ashamed.

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Common questions

Who is Iggy Pop?

Iggy Pop, born James Newell Osterberg Jr., is an American singer, songwriter, musician and actor who fronted the proto-punk band the Stooges. He is often called the "Godfather of Punk" for his unpredictable stage antics and unique voice.

When and where was Iggy Pop born?

Iggy Pop was born in Muskegon, Michigan, on the 21st of April 1947. He grew up in a trailer park in Ypsilanti, where his parents gave up their bedroom to hold his drum kit.

How did Iggy Pop get his name?

The Prime Movers gave him the nickname "Iggy" because he had played in the Iguanas. His Stooges bandmates added "Pop" after a local character named Jim Popp, whom he resembled after shaving his eyebrows.

What was Iggy Pop's relationship with David Bowie?

David Bowie was a long-term friend and collaborator who produced the Stooges album Raw Power in 1973 and visited Pop in hospital. The two moved to West Berlin to wean themselves off drugs, then made The Idiot and Lust for Life in 1977.

What are Iggy Pop's best-known songs?

With the Stooges, his best-known songs include "Search and Destroy" and "I Wanna Be Your Dog". His solo hits include "Lust for Life", "The Passenger" and "Real Wild Child (Wild One)". "Candy", a 1990 duet with Kate Pierson, was his only U.S. Top 40 hit.

When was Iggy Pop inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

Iggy Pop was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Stooges on the 15th of March 2010. He later received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in January 2020 for his solo career.

Why did the Stooges break up?

The Stooges first split shortly after Fun House in 1970 because of Pop's worsening heroin addiction. Their second breakup followed a 1974 final show that ended in a fight with bikers. Guitarist James Williamson declared the band over on the 22nd of June 2016.

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  65. 65NewsIggy Pop advert deemed misleadingApril 28, 2009
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  76. 76Michigan Rock and Roll Legends – Iggy PopGary Johnson
  77. 77Riot Fest featuring the Replacements, Iggy and the Stooges, Dinosaur Jr., Best CoastNovember 25, 2013
  78. 78Iggy Pop To deliver The John Peel LectureBBC
  79. 79BBC Music John Peel Lecture – Iggy Pop's Keynote Speech TranscriptIggy Pop — BBC
  80. 80Iggy Pop Reunites with Director Alex Cox for 'Bill, the Galactic Hero'Oliver Hall — Dangerous Minds — January 21, 2015
  81. 81Guitarist Tomoyasu Hotei calls on his pals for 'Strangers'October 8, 2015
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  84. 84NewsIggy Pop and Josh Homme Team Up for Secret AlbumJon Pareles — January 24, 2016
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  92. 92Iggy Pop Box Set to Focus on First Two David Bowie-Produced LPsNick DeRiso — April 10, 2020
  93. 93Iggy Pop, A$AP Rocky, and Tyler, the Creator, Star in Gucci Campaign Directed by Harmony KorineQuinn Moreland — September 29, 2020
  94. 94MagazineIggy Pop Has Been a Suit Maestro All AlongLiana Satenstein — September 30, 2020
  95. 95MagazineHear Iggy Pop's French Language Rendition of Elvis Costello's 'No Flag'Andy Greene — December 3, 2020
  96. 96MagazineIggy Pop Unleashes COVID-19 Anthem 'Dirty Little Virus'Rania Antifos — December 21, 2020
  97. 97Morrissey Says Miley Cyrus Wants Off His Next Album, and He's Split With Label and Management, TooChris Willman — December 25, 2022
  98. 98MagazineMorrissey Album Likely Delayed Again as Miley Cyrus Wants Guest Spot Taken OffDaniel Kreps — December 24, 2022
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  100. 100How Lonnie Smith Found an Unlikely New Collaborator: Iggy PopBrad Farberman — March 24, 2021
  101. 101Catherine Graindorge, Iggy Pop Share Challenging New 'The Dictator' | NewsSeptember 8, 2022
  102. 102Iggy Pop teams up with Duff McKagan, Chad Smith for new single FrenzyOctober 28, 2022
  103. 103Iggy Pop Announces New Album Every Loser (The rocker's follow-up to 2019's Free arrives on Friday, January 6, 2023)Matthew Strauss — November 10, 2022
  104. 104Iggy Pop – 'Every Loser' reviewErica Campbell — January 4, 2023
  105. 105Iggy Pop vows to never stage-dive again due to being "too rickety"Liz Scarlett — December 6, 2022
  106. 106Iggy Pop says he won't stage dive ever againCharlotte Krol — December 6, 2022
  107. 107Siouxsie Sioux and Iggy Pop Duet on New Version of "The Passenger"Consequence.net — April 30, 2024
  108. 108MagazineSiouxsie Sioux's First Song in Nine Years Is a New Cover of 'The Passenger' With Iggy Pop — for an Ice Cream AdJon Blisten — April 30, 2024
  109. 109MagazineDom Pérignon collaborates with Tilda Swinton and Zoë Kravitz for new projectKatie Frost — 2025-05-12
  110. 110Iggy Pop's Perfect Response to Superman Using His SongJuly 18, 2025
  111. 111MagazineCBGB Festival: The Best Photos of Iggy Pop, the Damned, Johnny Marr, and MoreSeptember 28, 2025
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  119. 119Magazine'Once Upon a Time in Wonderland' casts Iggy Pop
  120. 120BBC Radio 4:Burroughs at 100BBC
  121. 121Creators and Stars of 'Mr. Pickles' on the Humor and Horror of Adult Swim SeriesSeptember 2, 2014
  122. 122Iggy Pop spricht Walt Whitman - Kinder Adams – Children of Adam: Von Kai Grehn nach einem Text von Walt WhitmanRB/Deutschlandradio Kultur/SWR — August 25, 2019
  123. 123Iggy Pop, Grace Jones, Henry Rollins to Star in Silent Movie GutterdämmerungJuly 15, 2015
  124. 124NewsAnthony Bourdain visits Miami in 'Parts Unknown'May 1, 2015
  125. 125NewsMagnolia Pictures Nabs Danny Fields DocumentaryJanuary 12, 2016
  126. 126News'Blood Orange': Film ReviewJune 3, 2016
  127. 127Cannes 2016: Film Festival Unveils Official Selection LineupApril 14, 2016
  128. 128Iggy Pop meets his match with Michel Houellebecq in To Stay Alive – A MethodJoseph Earp — Thebrag.com — May 28, 2017
  129. 129In Praise of Nothing
  130. 130Lykke, Patti, Iggy, and More: Every Musician in Terrence Malick's Song to SongAmy Phillips — March 7, 2017
  131. 131Michael Fassbender Plays A "Lucifer"-Like Character in Terrence Malick's 'Weightless,' Shares Scenes With Iggy Pop & John LydonKevin Jagernauth — December 29, 2016
  132. 132'Kids Did Everything. It Was Beautiful': Inside Iggy Pop's New Punk DocumentaryShannon Carrier — March 22, 2019
  133. 133MagazineThe Dead Don't Die Does the Zombie Genre to DeathAnthony Lane — June 12, 2019
  134. 134Detroit City Football Club: Be an owner of Detroit's professional soccer team!
  135. 135Elijah Wood to Play Iggy Pop –Comingsoon.net — May 16, 2007
  136. 136NewsWood to star as Iggy PopPatrick Frater — May 16, 2007
  137. 137Sound and Vision Magazine – BackTalk: Elijah Wood
  138. 138MagazineIggy Pop Refuses To Take Part in BiopicJanuary 11, 2006
  139. 139NewsGIGWISE, Elijah Wood To Play Iggy Pop in Movie Biopic
  140. 140MagazineIggy Pop Nixes BiopicBrooke Thiessen — March 31, 2009
  141. 141Classics IrelandUcd.ie
  142. 142Happy 62nd Birthday, Iggy Pop!
  143. 143Rocker Iggy Pop gives Coconut Grove home to his wife, sells Palmetto Bay home at a lossT. R. D. Staff — 2018-09-15
  144. 144Iggy Pop was a punk before punk was invented but now the masterFebruary 28, 2014
  145. 145Iggy Pop in 1980s Greenwich Villagegothamist
  146. 146NewsLust, life and the whole crazy thingMarch 31, 2007
  147. 147Underage girls unabashedly treated as objects of desire in rock lyricsJuly 28, 2018
  148. 148The Danger in Treating Celebrities Like GodsAngelina Chapin — January 18, 2016
  149. 149Ryan Adams allegedly courting a minor is as old as Hollywood itselfFebruary 17, 2019
  150. 150Obvious History: Rock'n'roll's baby groupies Lori Lightning and Sable StarrTrey Taylor — April 20, 2018
  151. 151NewsLook Away review – horrifying stories of abuse at the hands of male rock starsLucy Mangan — September 13, 2021
  152. 152Josh Homme on Iggy Pop: 'Lemmy is gone. Bowie is gone. He's the last of the one-and-onlys'Perry, Kevin EG — March 5, 2016
  153. 153Johnny Depp's Body ArtDeppimpact.com
  154. 154Iggy Pop's lust for wildlife Down Under. (2022, May 30). Australian National, Australia.
  155. 155Kurt Cobain's 50 favorite albumsBrooklyn Vegan — November 15, 2012
  156. 156Mojo's 100 Greatest Albums of All Time | Book awards | LibraryThing
  157. 157Lost in the Aussie Funhouse: "Descent Into the Maelstrom: The Radio Birdman Story"Bryan Thomas — Night Flight — November 12, 2018
  158. 158The Immortals: The First Fifty
  159. 159Alice In Chains - 10-28-93 Layne Staley Guest Programming RageFebruary 19, 2012
  160. 160Slash's Influences | Favorite bands, albums and songs
  161. 161Peter Hook : my top 10 favourite albumsLouder Than War — October 26, 2012
  162. 162MagazineThe 200 Greatest Singers of All TimeJanuary 1, 2023
  163. 163Velvet GoldmineRob Mackie — April 23, 1999
  164. 164MagazineNintendo Feature: 10 Amazing Mario FactsApril 30, 2010
  165. 165BookThe Crow: The Story Behind the FilmBridget Baiss — Titan Books — 2012
  166. 166Rock legend Iggy Pop stars in St Leonard's children's seriesOctober 12, 2020
  167. 167Watch Iggy Pop's blink-and-you'll miss it cameo as a creepy paedophile in 90s cult movie Tank GirlApril 26, 2023
  168. 168Why 'The Crow: City of Angels' Is Worth Bringing Back from the DeadFebruary 22, 2024
  169. 169Pollstar Awards Archive – 1986March 8, 2017
  170. 170Pollstar Awards Archive – 1987March 8, 2017
  171. 171Pollstar Awards Archive – 1988March 8, 2017
  172. 172Firecracker Alternative Book Awards
  173. 173NewsManson wins Kerrang! honourBBC — August 28, 2001
  174. 174Song of the Year: 2016 Ultimate Classic Rock AwardsNick DiRiso — November 7, 2016
  175. 175What Was 2017's Best New Live Album / Video? UCR Fan Choice AwardsDave Lifton — December 9, 2017
  176. 176Final Nominations List
  177. 177Magazine2017 Golden Globe Awards – List of NomineesDecember 12, 2016
  178. 178NMW Magazine Announces 2017 NMA Winnersnewmusicweekly — March 7, 2017
  179. 179Q Awards 2017 announced for October 18, Manic Street Preachers and Sleaford Mods confirmed to perform post-awards gigAugust 1, 2017
  180. 180GAFFA-PRISEN '20
  181. 181Jelöltek
  182. 182NME Awards 2020: WinnersNME
  183. 183Iggy Pop devient commandeur de l'ordre des Arts et des LettresApril 26, 2017
  184. 184Iggy Pop awarded France's "highest cultural honour"April 26, 2017
  185. 185NewsIn pictures: Sony World Photography AwardsApril 15, 2020
  186. 186MagazineIggy Pop, Ensemble Intercontemporain & Diane Warren Receive Polar Music Prize at Royal Ceremony in StockholmFred Bronson — May 24, 2022
  187. 187Iggy Pop and Diane Warren Awarded Sweden's Polar Music PrizeMay 24, 2022
  188. 188BookThe Films of Johnny DeppWilliam B. Parrill — McFarland & Company — 2009
  189. 189BookJohnny Depp Starts HereMurray Pomerance — Rutgers University Press — 2005
  190. 190BookIggy Pop: Open Up and BleedPaul Trynka — Little, Brown Book Group — 2007

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