Iggy Pop
 Iggy
Pop was born James Newell Osterburg in 1947. He adopted the name
'Iggy' after drumming with a Detroit punk band called The
Iguanas.
In 1966 Iggy Pop saw The Doors at his local Detroit bar.
"I loved the antagonism," he later recalled of Jim
Morrison. "I loved that he was pissing people off."
Whether painting himself silver, vomiting over the audience
or issuing a screaming live album recorded on a cassette player,
Pop and The Stooges kept this manifesto close.
Yet The Stooges' full metal racket concealed one of rock's
most characterful voices, as evinced decades later by his
masterful covers of Louis Armstrong and Cole Porter standards.
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