Iggy Pop

Person · Open Library

Born

1947

Works

15

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Film & TV

Acting · Muskegon, Michigan, USA

James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and occasional actor. He is considered an influential innovator of punk rock, hard rock, and other styles of rock music. Pop began calling himself "Iggy" after his first band in high school (for which he was drummer), The Iguanas. He was lead singer/songwriter of…

Known for

• Daniel's Gotta Die — Edward Powell2025
• Iggy Pop - Live At Montreux Jazz Festival 2023 — Himself2025
• How Dark My Love — Self2025
• The Dark Fantastic — Self2025
• 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self2025
• Nash the Slash Rises Again! — Self2025
• Iggy Pop - Citadelle de Spandau, Berlin 2025 — Self2025
• The Rock Prophet: The Story of Link Wray — Self2025
• Scab Vendor: The Life and Times of Jonathan Shaw — Self2024
• Exorcismo: The Transgressive Legacy of Clasificada “S” — Self - Narrator (voice)2024

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

United States

Active from

1947

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,270,861

Total plays

44,977,963

Iggy Pop (born James Newell Osterberg, Jr.; April 21, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though widely known as an innovator and "godfather" of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, hard rock, jazz and blues. Pop became known as 'Iggy' in high school, during which time he served as drummer for local blues band The Iguanas. He is vocalist of influential proto-punk band The Stooges (Pop and the other surviving members o

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

   · 2009 · cited 19,929x

2. Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

   · 2017 · cited 5,577x

3. Metagenomic Analysis of the Human Distal Gut Microbiome

   · 2006 · cited 3,865x

4. Dulaglutide and cardiovascular outcomes in type 2 diabetes (REWIND): a double-blind, randomised placebo-controlled trial

   · 2019 · cited 2,648x

5. The role of antioxidants in the chemistry of oxidative stress: A review

   · 2015 · cited 2,326x

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Quotes

• “What I do on stage has utterly no purpose.”
• “The industrialism in Detroit...what I heard walking around...boom boom bah - 10 cars...boom boom bah - 20 cars...I get a lot of my influence from the electric shaver...”
• “I think I helped wipe out the sixties.”
• “I feel like God peed on all my enemies. For a long time I was very bitter that the people who controlled the means of anybody ever hearing my songs were never gonna play them. They only favored music that I specifically and particularly hated, and I wanted them dead. Suddenly, there was another avenue. I started hearing my stuff coming out of bars and then it started to happen little by little — a movie song here or a TV ad there.”
• “You know, I'm fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry a tune in a living room if called upon. Of course, mine come out all dark and twisted and weird.”
• “Everybody's a little more worldly now, and there's more exposure to things. When I made Fun House, back in 1970, nobody wanted to interview me. It was wonderful. I was like one of those little white things you find living under rocks, that every once in a while people pull up by mistake and go, "aagh!" But now everybody has a video camera, and that may have changed the nature of "the message from below," as it were.”

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Official website

Iggy Pop - Official Site

Iggy Pop is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor.

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