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Iggy Pop News

Iggy Pop slams Smashing Pumpkins and Limp Bizkit

Singer names 'crappy music' makers - video

Swiftcover insurance does U-turn after Iggy Pop backlash

Company will now insure musicians

Iggy Pop 'embarrassed' by insurance ad appearance

'Misleading' Swiftcover commercial was banned by Advertising Standards Authority last month

Iggy Pop car insurance advert banned

It comes after the company refuses to insure musicians

Iggy Pop announces release date for 'jazz' album

Punk legend embraces French literature too

  • Mar 26, 2009

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Iggy Pop Videos

Ladyhawke - Track By Track Interview

Ladyhawke - Track By Track Interview

Electro popper Ladyhawke talks NME through her self-titled debut album, track by track.

Patrick Wolf Interview

Patrick Wolf Interview

Patrick pops into the NME studio to discuss the inspiration behind his new album 'The Bachelor'.

NME Awards 2002 -  Best Pop Act - Kylie

NME Awards 2002 - Best Pop Act - Kylie

NME Awards 2002 - Best Pop Act - Kylie

Uffie 'Pop The Glock' - New Video

Uffie 'Pop The Glock' - New Video

The Good times flow in 'Pop The Glock'.

Michael Jackson RIP: 1958-2009

Michael Jackson RIP: 1958-2009

NME Editor Paul Stokes talks about the death of pop icon Michael Jackson.

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YouTube Iggy Pop Videos

The Passenger - Iggy Pop and The Stooges 70's

The Passenger - Iggy Pop and The Stooges 70's (07:31)

october 1977, manchester apollo.

The Passenger

The Passenger (04:54)

A video for classic Hollywood to the Iggy Pop song 'The Passenger. Edit: I just reopened this account and I had a huge number of requests for a list of the movies used in the video so instead of replying to each one I...

Iggy Pop - I wanna be your dog - 1979 - live

Iggy Pop - I wanna be your dog - 1979 - live (01:13)

Iggy Pop - I wanna be your dog - 1979 - LIVE

Iggy Pop-The Passenger Amazing Live Online 9 way cover!

Iggy Pop-The Passenger Amazing Live Online 9 way cover! (01:47)

This is an amazing 9 way online cover of Iggy Pop's The Passenger, It features regular people from all over New Zealand, preforming a live cover of The Passenger with Iggy Pop himself! So come and watch and don't...

Iggy Pop - The Passenger  (1998)

Iggy Pop - The Passenger (1998) (04:38)

The wonderful Iggy pop - The Passenger

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Iggy Pop Reviews

Album review: Iggy Pop - 'Preliminaires'

Album review: Iggy Pop - 'Preliminaires'

The ultimate punk goes all French jazz on us, but, bizarrely, c’est magnifique!

Iggy Pop : A Million In Prizes: The Anthology

Explore Iggy Pop’s sordid meat-covered past with this double-CD anthology spanning 40 years of blood, sex and oh yes, some cracking tunes

  • Jul 21, 2005

Iggy Pop at the Lost Weekend : London Brixton Academy

Less a singer than a mythical beast

  • Jul 16, 2002

Iggy Pop/Impotent Sea Snakes : Atlanta Earthlink live

An incendiary performance from the long haired, shirtless, vein straining, skin-tight jean clad Iggy...

  • Nov 2, 2001

Iggy Pop : Paris Hippodrome De Longchamp

Still exuding a lust for life, Iggy rampages through a thrilling set in promotion of his new 'Beat 'Em Up' opus...

  • Jul 9, 2001

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Iggy Pop Biography

Iggy Pop (born James Newell Osterberg, Jr. on April 21, 1947) is an American songwriter, and occasional actor. Although he has had only limited mainstream commercial success, Iggy Pop is considered an influential innovator of punk rock, hard rock, and other related styles. He is sometimes referred to by the nicknames "the Godfather of Punk" and "the Iguana", and is widely acknowledged as one of the most dynamic stage performers of all time. Pop began calling himself Iggy after his first band in high school, The Iguanas.

Iggy Pop was the lead singer of The Stooges, a late 1960s/early 1970s rock band who were influential in the development of the nascent hard rock and punk rock genres. The Stooges became infamous for their live performances, during which it was not uncommon for Pop (who traditionally performs bare-chested) to self-mutilate, verbally abuse the audience, expose himself and leap off the stage (the first or among the first to stage dive).

Pop's popularity has ebbed and flowed throughout the course of his subsequent solo career. His best-known solo songs include "Lust for Life," "I'm Bored," "Real Wild Child," the Top 40 hit "Candy" (with vocalist Kate Pierson of The B-52's) and "The Passenger". A film about Iggy Pop's life and career titled The Passenger is in development. He currently fronts the advertising campaign for the UK-based online insurance company Swiftcover, in his trademark state of toplessness.

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Iggy Pop's Best Songs

  • 1. The Passenger
  • 2. Lust For Life
  • 3. Nightclubbing
  • 4. China Girl
  • 5. Funtime
  • 6. Sister Midnight
  • 7. Some Weird Sin
  • 8. Success
  • 9. Sixteen
  • 10. Tonight
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Iggy Pop Discography

Iggy Pop albums.

  • Preliminaires - 25/05/2009 (EMI Music France/FR)
  • Power and Freedom - (Disky/NL)
  • New Values - 11/07/2000 (Buddha Records/US)
  • Party - (Budda Records/GB)
  • Blah-Blah-Blah - (A & M Records/GB)
  • Zombie Birdhouse - (Animal Records/GB)
  • Soldier - (Arista Records/GB)
  • Lust for Life - (RCA Victor/GB)
  • The Idiot - (RCA Records/GB)

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