It could be said that punk rock was created the minute Iggy Pop squirmed bare-chested through broken glass on a Michigan stage. James Osterberg grew up in a Detroit-area trailer home and began his musical career as the drummer for several bands while in high school and college. His real musical birth came in 1967, when he stepped to the forefront as the singer for the Psychedelic Stooges, a band he formed with brothers Ron (guitar) and Scott Asheton (drums) and Dave Alexander (bass). The group shunned the hippie aesthetic of the late '60s and instead created an abrasive garage rock punctuated by Pop's self-destructive onstage antics. The Stooges recorded three albums before breaking up. Pop briefly carried on with guitarist James Williamson and a variety of musicians before moving to Berlin to work with David Bowie. They collaborated on Pop's The Idiot and Lust for Life, both released in '77. In 2003, Pop reunited with Ron and Scott Asheton to record four songs for his album Skull Ring and took the reconstituted Stooges on the road.

Reviews

• A Million in Prizes
• The Stooges
• Metallic KO
• Fun House
• Raw Power
• Kill City
• The Idiot
• Lust for Life
• Zombie Birdhouse
• New Values
• Soldier
• Party
• Instinct
• Blah Blah Blah
• Brick by Brick
• Naughty Little Doggie
• Avenue B
• American Caesar
• Beat Em Up
• Skull Ring

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