History Ted Healy and his Stooges The Three Stooges started in 1925 as part of a raucous vaudeville act called Ted Healy and His Stooges (also known as Ted Healy and His Southern Gentlemen , Ted Healy and His Three Lost Souls , Ted Healy and His Racketeers , and Ted Healy and his Three Stooges ).

During this early period, the Stooges were originally billed as the Psychedelic Stooges at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, Michigan, and other venues, where they played with the MC5 and others.

Other early influences cited by Corgan include Cream, The Stooges, and Blue Cheer.

)In 1933, Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) signed Healy and his Stooges to a movie contract.

In 1934, the team's contract with MGM expired, and the Stooges parted professional company with Healy.

The band covered songs by Minor Threat, T.S.O.L., D.R.I., D.I., Verbal Abuse, Dr. Know and The Stooges.

This line up, billed as Iggy the Stooges, recorded their third album, the influential Raw Power (1973).

In early 2006, Iggy and the Stooges played in Australia and New Zealand for the Big Day Out.

He realized, however, that not reviving the Stooges would mean the end of Moe's and Larry's film careers.

In 1968, one year after their live debut and now dubbed The Stooges, the band signed with Elektra Records, again following in the footsteps of The Doors, who were Elektra's biggest act at the time (reportedly, Pop called Moe Howard to see if it was all right to call his band The Stooges, to which Howard responded by merely saying I don't care what they call themselves, as long as they're not the Three Stooges!

The Stooges' last show ended in a fight between the band and a group of bikers, documented on the album Metallic K.O.

This album was something of a Stooges reunion, with James Williamson producing and latter day Stooge Scott Thurston playing guitar and keyboards.

It was the only film that contained all four of the original Stooges (the three Howard brothers and Larry) on screen simultaneously.

Let's face it, if the State Prosecutors were really interested in catching the stooges or cheaters, then let them stipulate a minimum donation...

With Shemp gone, Healy and the two remaining stooges (Moe and Larry) needed a replacement, so Moe suggested his younger brother Jerry Howard.

Years before producing electronic music as a duo, they shared tastes for Elton John, MC5, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys and The Stooges.

In 1930, Ted Healy and His Stooges (including Sanborn) appeared in their first Hollywood feature film, Soup to Nuts , released by Fox Film Corporation.

The trio also filmed 41 short comedy skits for The New Three Stooges , which features a series of 156 animated cartoons produced for television.

In London, Iggy was to write and record an album with James Williamson, who had joined The Stooges as a second guitarist in late 1970.

Farrell, searching for a name for his festival, liked the euphonious quality of the now antiquated term upon hearing it in a Three Stooges short film.

The film was not a critical success, but the Stooges' performances were singled out as memorable, leading Fox to offer the trio a contract minus Healy.

He started playing in a band with school friends Trey Counce and Tim and Glenn Maloof called Blooshroom which Bell described as Pink Floyd meets The Stooges.

The act began as part of a late twenties vaudeville comedy act, billed as Ted Healy and his Stooges, consisting of Healy, Moe Howard, his brother Shemp Howard, and Larry Fine.

At the induction ceremony on March 10, 2008, Madonna did not sing but asked fellow Hall of Fame inductees and Michigan natives The Stooges to perform her songs Burning Up and Ray of Light .

Bowie and Berlin 1976 1978 After the second breakup of The Stooges, Iggy Pop made some recordings with James Williamson, but these were not released until 1977 (as Kill City , credited jointly to Iggy Pop and Williamson).

The Stooges era 1968 1975 The seeds of Iggy Pop's stage persona were sown when he saw The Doors perform in 1967 at the University of Michigan and was amazed by the stage antics and antagonism displayed by singer Jim Morrison.

Growing up as a teenager, he listened mostly to rock bands like Hawkwind, Captain Beefheart, Alice Cooper and Iggy and the Stooges bands his mother also used to like, a fact which somewhat embarrassed him as well as more mainstream groups like T. Rex and Gary Glitter.

Other rock and glam rock bands who influenced many early goth deathrock artists include The Doors, David Bowie, The Velvet Underground, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, The Cramps, T. Rex, New York Dolls, The Damned, MC5 and Richard Hell and the Voidoids (For a more complete listing of influential artists, see Gothic Rock predecessors.

The band's influences include Defunkt, Parliament Funkadelic, Jimi Hendrix, The Misfits, James Brown, Gang of Four, Bob Marley, Big Boys, Bad Brains, Sly and the Family Stone, Ohio Players, Queen, Stevie Wonder, Elvis Presley, Deep Purple, The Beach Boys, Black Flag, Ornette Coleman, Led Zeppelin, Yes, Fugazi, Fishbone, Marvin Gaye, Billie Holiday, Santana, Elvis Costello, The Stooges, The Clash, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Devo, and Miles Davis.