BIOGRAPHY :
Iggy Pop, whose real name James Newell Österberg Jr., was born on 21 April 1947 in Muskegon, Michigan (United States). In the early sixties, he became a drummer for the band The Iguanas, that's where his nickname comes thereafter. In 1965, a new group without success and Iggy left for Chicago where he hopes to become a drummer for the great bluesmen of the time. It will do nothing, because the rock and stronger than anything. He set up a new group ( "The Stooges") with the Asheton brothers (Ron on guitar and Scott on drums) and Dave Alexander on bass. The quartet is quickly out through the stage performances of Iggy Pop that is quite terrifying for the time (lacerations, nudity, vomiting and especially the slam, drop in the public and be carried by him).

In 1967, the group released their first album, a precursor of punk, the band's music is immediately hit with the public and The Stooges became one of the leading bands of that period. Many problems of drugs, alcohol and ego are yet the survival of the group at risk and its dissolution is effective in 1974 after three studio albums. Iggy Pop will then know quite a long time to empty. His accomplice in the early seventies, David Bowie will help them out of the shadows at the turn of the eighties by saving a few compositions of Iggy Pop. The financial success of the operation will be a fool to Iggy Pop finally decides to calm down and becomes an artist more serene. In 1986, he knows his true first solo success with the album "Blah Blah Blah." Riding the wave of success, Iggy Pop through the years and eighty-four-ninety as a large icon of rock music. He takes this reputation that he is finally granted to deliver superb albums like "American Caesar" in 1993 and "Avenue B" in 1999. In 2003, when he recorded with his new band ( "The Trolls") Iggy Pop renews contact with the Asheton brothers and invited them to come record some tracks for her new album in preparation. The magic and The Strooges recoupled in the wake of that record. A large world tour following the release of the album "The Weirdness" in 2007. In 2009, despite the death of Ron Asheton, Iggy Pop Strooges The announcement that are not dead, case forward. For its part, Iggy Pop continues to work solo, in May 2009, he released the album "Preliminaries", largely based on the book by Michel Houellebeck "The Possibility of an Island".