Iggy Pop

At 77 years old, Iggy Pop has this physical status:

James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), better known as Iggy Pop, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor.

Designated the "Godfather of Punk", he was the vocalist of influential proto-punk band the Stooges, who were formed in 1967 and have disbanded and reunited multiple times since.Initially playing a raw, primitive style of rock and roll (that progressed stylistically with each album), the band sold few records in their original incarnation and gained a reputation for their confrontational performances, which often involved acts of self-mutilation by Pop.

He famously had a colourful and often influential friendship and collaboration with David Bowie over the course of his career, beginning with the Stooges' album Raw Power in 1973.

With both musicians having relocated to West Berlin to wean themselves off their respective drug addictions, Pop began his solo career by collaborating with Bowie on the 1977 albums The Idiot and Lust for Life.

Throughout his career, Pop is well known for his outrageous and unpredictable stage antics and distinctive voice.

He was one of the first performers to do a stage-dive and popularized the activity.

Pop, who traditionally (but not exclusively) performs bare-chested, also performed such stage theatrics as rolling around in broken glass and exposing himself to the crowd.Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the course of his career, including garage rock, punk rock, hard rock, art rock, new wave, jazz, blues, and electronic.

Though his popularity has fluctuated through the years, many of Pop's songs have become well known, including "Search and Destroy" and "I Wanna Be Your Dog" by the Stooges, and his solo hits "Lust for Life", "The Passenger" and "Real Wild Child (Wild One)".

In 1990, he recorded his first and only Top 40 U.S. hit, "Candy", a duet with B-52's singer Kate Pierson. Although Pop has had limited commercial success, he has remained both a culture icon and a significant influence on a wide range of musicians in numerous genres.

The Stooges' album Raw Power has proved an influence on artists such as Sex Pistols, the Smiths, the Sisters of Mercy, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Nirvana.

His solo album The Idiot has been cited as a major influence on a number of post-punk, electronic and industrial artists including Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails and Joy Division, and was described by Siouxsie Sioux as a "re-affirmation that our suspicions were true: the man is a genius." He was inducted as part of the Stooges into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010.

Early life

James Newell Osterberg Jr. was born in Muskegon, Michigan, on April 21, 1947, the son of Louella (née Christensen; 1917–1996) and James Newell Osterberg Sr. (1921–2007), a former high school English teacher and baseball coach at Fordson High School in Dearborn, Michigan. He is of English, German, and Irish descent on his father's side, and Danish and Norwegian ancestry on his mother's side. His father was adopted by a Swedish-American nurse surnamed Osterberg. The family lived in a trailer park in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Ron Asheton later described him as having been a conventional teenager: "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."

Osterberg began to play drums in the fifth grade, first starting with rubber pads glued to plywood, before his parents bought him a drum set. In a 2007 Rolling Stone interview, he explained his relationship with his parents and their contribution to his music:

Personal life

Pop lives near Miami, Florida. He has been married three times: to Wendy Weissberg (for several weeks in 1968 before the marriage was annulled shortly thereafter), to Suchi Asano (from 1984 until their divorce in 1999), and to his longtime partner Nina Alu, whom he married in 2008. He has a son, Eric Benson, born in 1970 from a relationship with Paulette Benson.

At age 23, Pop had a relationship with 13-year old Sable Starr. Since the emergence of the MeToo movement, the relationship has been up for debate. Look Away, a documentary about sexual abuse in the rock music industry, is named after an Iggy Pop song about Starr. Starr also claimed to have had relationships with David Bowie, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and Johnny Thunders.

Pop was diagnosed with scoliosis, with one leg being one and a half inches shorter than the other.

In the 1990s, Pop became friends with Johnny Depp, Jim Jarmusch, and tattoo artist Jonathan Shaw. Shaw said the four wore matching rings depicting a skull, and all but Pop received a similar skull-and-crossbones tattoo.

Source

Music career

Osterberg began his musical career in Ann Arbor, Michigan, including The Intrepidas, who cut several hit songs, including Bo Diddley's "Mona" in 1965. He began attending local blues-style bands, including Prime Movers Dan and Michael Erlewine, who joined at the age of 18, which he joined at 18 years old. For being a member of The Iggy, the Prime Minister gave him the nickname "Iggy." The two years he spent in the band made him aware of "art, politics, and experimentation," according to biographer Jim Ambrose.

Osterberg eventually dropped out of Michigan and moved to Chicago to learn more about blues. He played drums in blues clubs in Chicago, and Sam Lay (formerly of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band) who aided him in revealing his friendship with Pop. He was inspired by the Chicago blues, as well as bands like The Sonics, MC5, and The Doors. Osterberg on vocals, Ron Asheton on guitar, Asheton's brother Scott on drums, and Dave Alexander on bass. Their first performance at a house in Detroit, Michigan, was held at a Halloween party. Members of the MC5 were also present. After seeing Ron Asheton live in the Chosen Few (a covers band), Osterberg became interested in him, saying, "I've never seen a convincing musician that wasn't sick and kind of dirty, and Ron had those two things covered." After a local character whom he resembled, the three named Osterberg "Pop" or "Pop."

When Pop's stage persona appeared in 1967 at the University of Michigan, he was struck by the stage antics and antagonism displayed by singer Jim Morrison. Morrison's extreme behavior, while playing in a well-known band, inspired the young Pop to push the boundaries of stage performance. Mick Jagger and James Brown were among Pop's vocals and persona influences on Pop's voice and image.

Pop also attributed the Stooges to being jump-started after seeing an all-girls rock band from Princeton, New Jersey, called The Untouchable, in addition to Jim Morrison and The Doors' influence on the group. He relates: He relates to Bust's 1995 interview: he tells her: "I remember being a kid in a 1995 interview"

The band joined Elektra Records in 1968, one year after its live debut and now dubbed the Psychedelic Stooges, and Howard responded immediately, saying, "I don't care what they say, as long as they are not The Three Stooges." (I was hanging up the phone). In the Jim Jarmusch documentary film about The Stooges, Gimme Danger, Pop himself related the tale. The Stooges, John Cale's first album (on which Pop was credited as "Iggy Stooge") was released in New York in 1969. Both it and the sequel, Fun House, which was produced by Don Gallucci in Los Angeles in 1970, did not do well. Despite the fact that Fun House did not get the acclaim it was hoped for, it was later ranked No. 1 in the UK. In 2003, 191 in Rolling Stone's "Best Albums of All Time" collection. The group disbanded shortly after the introduction of Fun House due to Pop's increasing heroin use.

The Stooges continued to perform in small clubs with both Ron Asheton and James Williamson on guitars and Jimmy Recca on bass, with Dave Alexander fired earlier this year when he refused to play due to his persistent alcoholism. Pop and David Bowie spent the year at Max's Kansas City, a nightclub and restaurant in New York City. When Bowie decided in 1972 to produce an album with him in England, Pop's career prospered. The hunt for a rhythm section began as Williamson was hired as guitarist. However, the Stooges were reunited because neither Pop nor Williamson were content with any players in England. Ron Asheton migrated from guitar to bass grudgingly. Raw Power, the rock defining track, was born during the recording session. Scott Thurston was welcomed to the band on keyboards/electric piano and Bowie's continued his help, but Pop's heroin use persisted. The Stooges' last show in 1974 culminated in a contest between the band and a group of bikers, which was chronicled on the album Metallic K.O. Pop's career was stalled for several years due to heroin use.

Pop produced albums with James Williamson after the Stooges' second breakup, but no one was released until 1977 (as Kill City, credited jointly to Pop and Williamson). Pop was unable to manage his opioid use and enrolled himself in the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute to try to clean up. Bowie was one of his few visitors, and he continued to help his friend and colleague. On the Station to Station tour in 1976, Bowie brought Pop along as his companion. This was Pop's first exposure to large-scale professional touring, and he was captivated, particularly with Bowie's work ethic. Bowie and Pop were arrested in Rochester, New York, together on March 21, 1976, but charges were later dropped.

Bowie and Pop have migrated to West Berlin to wean themselves off of their respective opioid use. "Being in a Berlin apartment with Bowie and his family was fascinating," Pop recalled. "Tonight was the big event of the week." "Anyone who was old enough to crawl to the sofa would watch Starsky & Hutch."

Pop signed to RCA Records in 1977. Bowie wrote and produced Pop's two most popular albums as a solo artist, with the latter featuring "The Passenger," one of his best-known songs. Lust for Life was a venture of brothers, Hunt and Tony Fox Sales, and Soupy Sales' sons. "China Girl," "Tonight," and "Sister Midnight" were among Bowie's songs written together, some of which Bowie performed on his own albums later (the last being recorded with different lyrics as "Red Money" on Lodger). In Pop's live shows, Bowie also played keyboards, some of which are included on the album Eye Live album in 1978. Pop performed backing vocals on Bowie's Low in its return.

Pop had grown dissatisfied with RCA, later admitting to making TV Eye Live as a quick way to fulfill his three-album RCA deal. He went to Arista Records, under the banner of whose banner he first published New Values in 1979. This album was something like a Stooges reunion, with James Williamson assisting and former Stooge Scott Thurston playing guitar and keyboards. The album's style, not surprisingly, harkened back to the Stooges' guitar sound. New Values was not a commercial success in the United States, but critics have since regarded it highly.

The album was moderately popular in Australia and New Zealand, but it was also on display in New Zealand, leading to Pop's first visit to promote it. He made a memorable appearance on Australia Broadcasting Corporation's national show Countdown while in Melbourne. Pop made no attempt to conceal the fact that he was lip-synching (shoving the microphone down his pants at one point), nor did he threaten the teenage girls in the audience during his anarchic appearance on "I'm Bored." In a sarcastic Australian accent, he was also interviewed by host Molly Meldrum, whose interaction was frequently interrupted by the singer's leaping up and down on his chair and yelling "G'day mate" in a jumbled Australian accent. His Countdown appearance is generally considered one of the show's finest moments, and it has cemented his fame among Australian punk enthusiasts; since then, he has often toured there. Pop shot a music video for "I'm Bored" while in New Zealand and attended a recording company function where he proceeded to slap a woman and throw wine over a photographer. While in Australia, Pop was also the guest on a late-night commercial television interview show on the Ten Network. In Australia, the Countdown performance has been re-screened several times.

Pop and Bowie debated Williamson during the recording of Soldier (1980) over several aspects of the program. "I was not at all happy with a variety of aspects of the record, including the band, the music, and the recording facilities," Williamson said. So I was dissatisfied in general and vice versa." Williamson ended the project. Bowie appeared on "Play it Safe" on the album "Play it Safe," as the group's backing vocalists. Pop smashed a microphone into his own face in 1981, knocking out a front tooth. Both Soldier and its sequel (1981) were commercial failures, and Pop was banned from Arista. During this period, his drug use fluctuated, but it remained steady.

Pop published I Want More in 1980, co-written with Anne Wehner, an Ann Arbor arts patron. A foreword by Andy Warhol was included in the book, which features a collection of black and white photographs. Warhol said he recognized Pop while he was Jim Osterberg at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 1966. Warhol wrote, "I don't know why he hasn't made it so big." "He is so sweet."

The 1982 album Zombie Birdhouse on Chris Stein's Animal label, with Stein himself composing, was no more commercially viable than his Arista creations. Pop's fortunes changed in 1983 when David Bowie recorded a cover of the song "China Girl." The song appeared on The Idiote first, and it was a big hit on Bowie's blockbuster Let's Dance album. Pop received major royalties as a co-writer on the album. Bowie performed five more of their co-written songs (19 from Lust for Life, 1 from New Values, and 2 new songs) on Tonight, assuring Pop financial stability, at least for the short term. Pop was able to take a three-year break during which he battled his revived heroin use and attended acting classes.

In addition,, Pop performed the title song to the 1984 film Repo Man (with Steve Jones, former Sex Pistols' guitarist, and Nigel Harrison and Clem Burke, both of Blondie on bass and drums), as well as an instrumental called "Repo Man Theme" that was performed during the opening credits.

Pop performed some demos with Jones in 1985. He appeared in these demos for Bowie, who was sufficiently impressed to produce "The Wild One," a cover of "The Wild One" written and recorded by Australian rock 'n' roll musician Johnny O'Keefe in 1958. The single was a top ten hit in the United Kingdom and was huge around the world, particularly in Australia, where it has been used since 1987 as the theme tune for the ABC's late-night music video show Rage. Blah-Blah was Pop's highest-charting album in the United States since The Idiot in 1977, peaking at No. 6. The Billboard 200 chart shows that 75 percent of the Billboard 200 chart has been reached.

Pop and Lou Reed contributed to the animated film Rock & Rule in 1985. In the last scene of the film, Pop performed the song "Pain & Suffering."

Pop came out in 1987 (along with Bootsy Collins) on a mainly instrumental album, Neo Geo by Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. The music video for "Risky," written and directed by Metier Avis, received the first ever MTV Breakthrough Video Award. In the form of an imagined love affair between a robot and one of Man Ray's models in Paris in the late 1930s, the groundbreaking video explores transhumanist philosopher FM-2030's visions of Nostalgia for the Future. Jean Baudrillard's 1894 painting Puberty and Roland Barthes Death of the Author were among other influences. The surrealist black-and-white video uses stop motion, light painting, and other retro in-camera effects methods. When at work on the score for The Last Emperor in London, Meiert Avis collected Sakamoto. Sakamoto also appears on a video painting words and messages to an open shutter camera. Pop, who appears on "Risky," prefers not to be in the film, allowing his performance space to be occupied by the surrealist era robot, allowing him to be occupied by the survivor era robot.

Instinct (1988), Pop's sequel to Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Ins in Ins Blah Blah Blah Ins Ins's Ins Brut Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Inst Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Inst Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Instinct (1988) was... Its stripped-back, guitar-based sound leaned further toward the Stooges' sound than any of his solo albums to date. His record company dropped him, but the King Biscuit Flower Hour radio show (featuring guitarist Andy McCoy and Alvin Gibbs on bass) in Boston on July 19, 1988. Pop received more movie soundtracks in 1989, including "Live on the Night" by Scott Brown (who does backing vocals) and "Love Transfusion," a music video originally written by Alice Cooper (who does backing vocals) and Desmond Child in Wes Craven's Shocker. Pop, who was dissatisfied with RCA's decisions, revoked copyrights of his RCA albums, marketed it to his company Thousand Mile Mile, and signed a Virgin Records deal, which was a strange mix of distribution agreements for his RCA records and a recording deal for new albums. Lust for Life and The Idotett appeared in 1990, and then television Eye Live 1977, 1994. These albums are still available on Virgin.

Pop built Brick by Brick, produced by Don Was and The B-52's as guests, as well as backup vocals by many local Hollywood bands, two of whom (Whitey Kirst and Craig Pike) will perform in his Kiss My Blood video (1991), directed by Tim Pope and filmed in Paris. The video sparked a lot of controversy, because it contained a large portion of Pop's penis exposed to the audience. "Candy," the album's first Top 40 U.S. hit, a duet with B-52's singer Kate Pierson, was included on the album.

Pop performed "The Prosecutor" on the POINT Music/Philips Classics album, which was released in 1992) of composer John Moran's multimedia opera "The Manson Family." He also contributed to the Red Hot & Blue campaign, performing a version of "Well Did You Evah!" Debbie Harry and I were in a duet.

Pop would appear on the Nickelodeon show The Adventures of Pete and Pete from the early to mid 1990s. James Mecklenberg, Nona Mecklenberg's father, appeared on James Mecklenberg.

Pop and Kirst contributed the song "Why Was I Born (Freddy's Death)" to the soundtrack of Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare in 1991. The song also extends the ending credits of the film, with a collection of clips from A Nightmare on Elm Street running alongside the end credits. Pop performed a key role in the John Moran opera The Manson Family in the same year.

In 1992, he worked with Goran Bregovi on the soundtrack to Emir Kusturica's film Arizona Dream. Four of the songs were performed in the Deathcar, TV Screen, and This Is a Film. He appeared with the New York City band White Zombie in 1992. He performed spoken word vocals on the intro and outro of the song "Black Sunshine" as well as portraying a writer in the video shot for the song. He has been singled out for special recognition in the band's album La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One's liner notes.

Pop released American Caesar in 1993, with two hit singles, "Wild America" and "Beside You." The following year, Pop contributed to Buckethead's album Giant Robot, including "Buckethead's Toy Store" and "Post Office Buddy." He appears on the Les Rita Mitsouko album Système D, where he also performs "My Love Is Bad" with Catherine Ringer.

Pop's 1977 song "Lust for Life" was included in the film Trainspotting, giving him a new sense of fame in 1996. For the song, a new video was made including clips from the film and studio footage of Pop dancing with Ewen Bremner, one of the film's actors. In addition, a Pop concert served as a plot point in the film. The song has also appeared in television commercials for Royal Caribbean and as the theme tune to The Jim Rome Exhibition, a nationally syndicated American sports talk show.

Pop singer Naughty Little Doggie, with Whitey Kirst returning on guitar, and the single "I Want a Live" were released in 1996. In 1997, he remixed Raw Power to give it a more hard edged sound; fans had complained for years that Bowie's official "rescue effort" mix was muddy and lacking bass; On the new mix, pop testified, "everything's still in the red." Don Wasco co-produced his 1999 album Avenue B with Don Was, releasing the single "Corruption."

Pop was credited with the soundtrack to the film The Brave in 1997.

Pop appeared on Paramount Television's science fiction film Star Trek: Deep Space Nine on January 1, 1998. In an episode based on the film "The Magnificent Ferengi," Pop played a Vorta. The theme song for "Space Goofs" was also contributed by Pop.

Pop performed on the 1999 death of Aisha in Las Vegas, the United Kingdom's Top ten single Aisha. Bill Laswell's collaboration effort on Hashimheen, The End of Law, took place the same year as he appeared on the tracks The Western Lands and A Quick Trip to Alamut. He appeared on At the Drive-In in 2000 and "Rolodex Propaganda" and "Enfilade."

Pop was the headliner for the annual Australian three-day festival, the Falls Festival, on New Year's Eve 1997. He gave one of the festival's most memorable appearances. As part of a competition to guess Pop's new year's resolution, a member of the audience was expected to do the countdown for the new year with Pop. (It was "To do nothing and make a lot of money!)

Sum 41, Green Day, Peaches, and The Trolls, as well as Ron and Scott Asheton, reuniting the three remaining founding members of the Stooges for the first time since 1974, appeared on Pop's 2003 album Skull Ring. Pop appeared on Peaches' album "Kick It" as well as the video. His first full biography was published in 2003. Gimme Danger wrote The Story of Iggy Pop by Joe Ambrose; Pop did not participate in the biography or publicly endorse it. Pop revived the Stooges after having loved working with the Ashetons on Skull Ring with bassist Mike Watt (formerly of the Minutemen) filling in for the late Dave Alexander, and Fun House saxophonist Steve Mackay rejoining the ranks. Since 2004, they have been touring regularly. Pop opened Madonna's Reinvention World Tour in Dublin this year.

In June 2007, Pop and the Stooges appeared at the Glastonbury Festival. The set included songs from the 2007 album The Weirdness of People and "I Wanta Be Your Dog," as well as "No Fun" and "I Want A Dog." When being interviewed on the BBC's coverage of the Glastonbury Festival in June 2007, Pop also caused controversy in June 2007. He used the word "paki store," apparently unaware of its racial connotations, resulting in three complaints and an apology from the BBC.

Pop appeared at Madonna's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York on March 10, 2008. He performed raucous interpretations of two Madonna hits, "Burning Up" and "Ray of Sun," together with the Stooges. Madonna's hit song "Like a Virgin" hit him straight before leaving the stage, quoting "You make me feel young and fresh, like a virgin." Madonna, a guitarist, requested the Stooges to appear in her place as a tribute to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for not inducting the Stooges, despite six appearances on the nomination ballot. Pop also appeared on Asian Dub Foundation's "No Fun" cover on their 2008 album Punkara.

Ron Asheton, the original Stooges guitarist and Pop's self-described best friend, was discovered dead in a apparent heart attack on January 6, 2009. He was 60 years old when he was first introduced.

James Williamson resurfaced in 2009 after 29 years with the band.

On December 15, 2009, it was announced that the Stooges would be inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 15, 2010. Pop had "about two hours of a strong emotional reaction" to the news.

Pop'Em Up, the Trolls' birthplace, has released the single "Football" starring Trolls alumni Whitey Kirst and brother Alex, which was released in 2001. In an American TV commercial for the Motorola ROKR phone in 2005, Pop appeared alongside Madonna, Little Richard, Bootsy Collins, and The Roots' Questlove. Pop and the Stooges performed in Australia and New Zealand for the Big Day Out in early 2006. They also started working on The Weirdness, Steve Albini's first album that was released in March 2007. Pop and the Stooges performed at the Lowlands pop festival in the Netherlands, Hodokvas in Slovakia, and the Sziget Festival in Budapest in August 2006.

Author Paul Trynka wrote a biography of Pop (with his blessing) published in early 2007. Pop and the Stooges appeared at Bam Margera's wedding and Pop appeared on the Teddybears' single "Punkrocker" on a Cadillac television commercial. Pop was also the voice of Lil' Rummy on the Comedy Central cartoon Lil' Bush, and he has claimed that he has done voices for American Dads. Theft Auto IV, which also included the Stooges' "I Wanta Be Your Dog" (though the game's manual credited Iggy Pop as the artist).

Pop star consulted on Profanation, the new album by Bill Laswell-led group Praxis, which was launched on January 1, 2008.

Pop performed "Pain" on the album Dark Night of the Soul, alongside Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse.

On June 2, 2009, Pop's fifteenth solo album, Préliminaires, was released. La Possibilité d'une île, a French author Michel Houellebecq's book La Possibilité d'une île, 2005; Trans. As The Possibility of an Island (by Gavin Bowd, 2006), Pop was expected to provide the soundtrack for a documentary film about Houellebecq and his attempts to make a film from his book. "This latest release," the first single off the album, "King of the Dogs," has a sound strongly influenced by New Orleans jazz musicians, such as Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton. Pop claimed that the album was his reaction to being "sick of listening to idiot thugs with guitars banging out crappy music." The album is available on legal download pages, CD, and limited to only 6000 units worldwide. This box set includes the Préliminaires album, a collector "Les Feuilles Mortes" 7 inch, the front of which includes Pop's portrait by Marjane Satrapi, and a 38-page booklet of drawings by Marjane Satrapi.

Pop was signed up as the face of Swiftcover, the UK-based online insurance company. Swiftcover's Bill O'Shea appeared in a £25 million TV commercial, with the tagline "Get a Life." The advertisement was then pulled back by the Advertising Standards Authority on April 28, 2009, implying that Pop himself had an insurance policy with Swiftcover at the time, but the firm did not insure musicians.

On Slash's first solo album Slash, Pop also appears on "We're Gonna Die," which was released in April 2010. He appeared in the Lego Rock Band's "The Passenger" song and also lent his voice to the in-game tutorial. Pop has appeared on NZ television commercial phone networks, implying that he could get a band to play together by dialing. On March 15, 2010, he was inducted as part of the Stooges into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Pop said he would no longer stage dive after a stage diving crash in March 2010. However, he did so on three occasions at a concert in Madrid, Spain, on April 30, 2010; he did the same at London's Hammersmith Apollo on May 2, 2010. Pop in Zottegem, Belgium, on July 9, 2010, causing bleeding from the face. On the NXNE main stage, Pop appeared with the reformed Stooges in Yonge and Dundas Square in Toronto in June 2010. In 2011, he collaborated with The Lilies, a partnership between Sergio Dias Mutantes and French company Tahiti Boy & The Palmtree Family, to produce the single "Why?" "Always have a 'dangerous' response.'

Pop lent his photo to PETA's fight against the annual Canada seal hunt.

Pop performed "Real Wild Child" on the tenth season of American Idol on April 7, 2011; the Los Angeles Times' "Iggy Pop & Hiss" described Pop as "still magnetic, still sad." On Kesha's album "Dirty Love" she also appeared on her second album Warrior, he appears. Iggy and the Stooges co-headlined RiotFest 2013's Day 2 in Toronto and Denver with The Replacements on August 25, 2013.

Pop was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame in 2012. Scott Asheton, a Stooges drummer, died of a heart attack in March 2014 at the age of 64.

Pop gave the fourth annual BBC Music John Peel Lecture in Salford on the subject of "Free Music in a Capitalist Society" on October 14, 2014. He used the lecture to explore his experiences with the music industry and his reflections on the effects of the internet on music and the wider media. On BBC Radio 6, where he covers an eclectic mix of music from punk to jazz, he also promotes and promotes emerging artists such as Shame, Fat White Family, False Heads, and Sleaford Mods.

Pop contributed the theme song to Alex Cox's film Bill, the Galactic Hero, in January 2015. He also collaborated with New Order on the album "Stray Dog" from their album Music Complete, which was released in September of this year. On the album Strangers' "How The Cookie Crumbles" and "Walking Through The Night," Pop also collaborated with Tomoyasu Hotei, which was also released the same year.

On June 22, 2016, Stooges guitarist James Williamson declared that the Stooges were no longer active: a public statement by Stooges guitarist James Williamson.

Williamson also said that touring had become tedious, and that balancing the band's work and Pop's was a difficult challenge.

Pop's depression was on display in the Bahamas in 2016. Starting from March 28, the album was released in Europe and North America with the Post Pop Depression Tour. Both sides of the Atlantic, the album reached a new peak chart position for Iggy Pop albums, his first ever US Top 20 album and first ever UK Top 5 albums.

Pop's double live album Post Iggy Pop Depression: Live At The Royal Albert Hall on Eagle Rock Entertainment (on DVD+2CD and digital formats) was released on October 28, 2016.

Pop created and performed vocals on the Oneohtrix Point Never track "The Pure and the Damned" on the soundtrack to the crime film Good Time in 2017.

Pop's Teatime Dub Encounters EP was released on July 27, 2018. Both Pop and Underworld were on board for Danny Boyle's 1996 film Trainspotting.

Free, Pop's eighteenth studio album, was released on September 6, 2019.

Pop received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in January 2020.

Pop performed an alternate version of his hit song "China Girl" on April 10, 2020 as part of the forthcoming Bowie Years, a new seven-disc deluxe box set, featuring extended remastered versions of his David Bowie-produced 1977 albums The Idiot and Lust for Life. The box set includes remastered copies of both studio albums, as well as outtakes, alternate mixes, and a 40-page book. As well, the two original albums are paired with an additional album of live recordings to produce separate stand-alone two-disc deluxe editions.

Pop performed on a rework of Elvis Costello's "No Flag" from Costello's 2020 album Hey Clockface, in December 2020. Pop provides the vocals on this version, but it is a re-recording.

In December 2020, Pop's "Dirty Little Virus" was introduced as a new digital track. It is, in fact, about the COVID-19 pandemic.

Clio, a French singer, released a duet with Iggy Pop titled "L'appartement" in April 2021.

Pop music appears on two tracks on his latest album Breathe by Hammond master Lonnie Smith, "Why Can't We Live Together" (a cover version of the Timmy Thomas original) and "Sunshine Superman" (a cover version of the Donovan original). In March 2021, the album was released.

On her latest album The Dictator, Pop collaborated with Belgian composer and violinist Catherine Graindorge on three tracks. It was launched in September 2022.

Film, television and radio career

Pop has appeared in numerous films, including Sid and Nancy (a non-speaking cameo role), The Color of Money, Hardware, Snow Day, Coffee and Cigarettes, "Somewhere in California"), Cry-Baby, Dead Man, Tank Girl, and Atolladero, a Spanish science fiction Western, including Sid and Nancy. He had intended to appear in the original The Crow film but his recording commitments wouldn't allow him to participate. He starred in the movie Suck as Victor in February 2009. In the film Art House, which premiered at the Nashville Film Festival in April 2010, Pop was joined by indie actress Greta Gerwig.

Pop has appeared in numerous television shows, including Tales from the Crypt, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, where he played Nona's father in the second and third seasons, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, in which he appeared in the episode "The Magnificent Ferengi." He appeared in an episode of MTV's Unholy Union as the main band performing at Bam Margera's wedding. On another episode of Beavis and Butthead, a portion of Pop's "Butt Town"'s music video was also included. Lil' Rummy appeared on Comedy Central's Lil' Bush, as well as providing the voice for a character in the 2007 animated film Persepolis.

Pop has appeared in many rockumentaries, including Crocodile Dundee II; Trainspotting; Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels; Haggard; Freddy's Dead: About a Son; And Kurt Cobain: About a Son.

Pop appeared in Cry-Baby and Dead Man, alongside Johnny Depp on several films: they appeared together in Cry-Baby and Dead Man. The Brave, directed and starring Depp, and the soundtrack for Depp's 1993 film Arizona Dream were provided by Pop.

Pop also sang of a cameo in the American Dad! Jerry, the drummer in Steve Smith's band, appears on "American Dream Factory" in episode "American Dream Factory." He appears in FLicKeR, Nik Sheehan's 2008 feature film about Brion Gysin and the Dreamachine. Pop performed himself as the DJ of the fictional rock station Liberty Rock Radio 97. In the video game Grand Theft Auto IV, there are eight levels. On the same station, the Stooges' album "I Wanta Be Your Dog" was on display. Pop was also featured as a voice artist in the ATARI video game DRIV3R (as Baccus and other characters), which was released by Reflections Interactive. In the Adult Swim animated comedy/adventure film The Venture Bros, Pop appears as a character. He is one of David Bowie's "The Sovereign" of the Guild of Calamitous Intent, as well as Klaus Nomi. Pop has some nebulous superpowers, which he uses when he and Nomi rebel against Bowie.

In the French film L'Étoile du jour, directed by Sophie Blondy, Pop played the conscience of a clown named Elliot (Denis Lavant).

Pop appeared briefly in the French film Les gamins before then he sang The Caterpillar in the television series Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.

Pop presented (narrated) the BBC documentary Burroughs at 100 in 2014. In the famous "Life Without You," William Burroughs deeply affected Pop's writing and inspiring lyrics. In the episode "Burroughs 101," commemorating his 101st birthday, It was broadcast in the United States on This American Life on January 30, 2015.

On the Adult Swim animated comedy Mr. Pickles, which ran from 2014 to 2019, Pop voiced Texas Red.

On BBC 6 Music, pop hosts "Iggy Confidential" a week radio show and podcast.

"Kinder Adams/Children of Adam," a German translation of Walt Whitman's poetry cycle published by Kai Grehn in 2005, also including a complete reading by Pop.

Pop played Vicious in the Björn Tagemose-directed silent film Gutterdämmerung opposite Grace Jones, Henry Rollins, and Lemmy in 2015. In Amerika, Pop was included in Rammstein's DVD Rammstein.

Pop was featured as a main subject in Danny Says' documentary Danny Says, featuring Alice Cooper, Judy Collins, Wayne Kramer, Jac Holzman, and others. Pop appeared in Toby Tobias' thriller Blood Orange, in which he portrays an old rock star. Jim Jarmusch also produced Gimme Danger, a documentary film about the band, during 2016.

He appeared in Erik Lieshout's documentary To Stay Alive: A Method in 2016.

Pop appeared in Song to Song, directed by Terrence Malick, opposite Michael Fassbender, in 2017.

PUNK for Epix, a pop executive's four-part documentary series launched in early 2019.

In the Jim Jarmusch film The Dead Don't Die, Pop also appears as a zombie.

Source