Osterberg was raised in a trailer park in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

In 1976, Bowie took him along as his companion on the Station to Station tour.

In 1971, Iggy Pop and David Bowie met at Max's Kansas City, a nightclub and restaurant in New York City.

Gimme Danger The Story of Iggy Pop was written by Joe Ambrose Pop did not collaborate on the biography or publicly endorse it.

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

Author Paul Trynka completed a biography of Iggy Pop (with his blessing) called Open Up and Bleed , published in early 2007.

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).

Green Day collaborated with Iggy Pop on two tracks for his album Skull Ring in November 2003.

His later stage name, Iggy, is derived from one of these early bands, the Iguanas.

The album and its follow up Party (1981) were both commercial failures, and Iggy Pop was dropped from Arista.

Pop sang four of the songs In the Deathcar , TV Screen , Get the Money , and This is a Film .

Morrison's extreme behavior, while performing in a popular band, inspired the young Pop to push the boundaries of stage performance.

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

The video attracted much controversy, as it featured much footage of Pop performing with his penis exposed to the audience.

Pop testified in the reissue's liner notes that on the new mix, everything's still in the red .

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.

The album was moderately successful in Australia and New Zealand, however, and this led to Iggy Pop's first visit there to promote it.

The 1980s In 1980, Iggy Pop published his autobiography I NEED MORE , co written with Anne Weher, an Ann Arbor arts patron.

In 1991, Pop and Kirst contributed the song Why Was I Born (Freddy's Dead) to the soundtrack of the film .

Tonight (1984), another dance oriented album, found Bowie collaborating with Tina Turner and, once again, Iggy Pop.

In March 2015, it was revealed that the first single off Spears' ninth album Pretty Girls would be released on May 5, 2015, featuring Australian rapper Iggy Azalea.

The iconic status of the robotic costumes has been compared to the makeup of KISS and the leather jacket worn by Iggy Pop.

This was Iggy Pop's first exposure to large scale professional touring and he was impressed, particularly with Bowie's work rate.

A project in which Wood was set to star, a biopic about singer Iggy Pop, putatively named The Passenger , has not come to fruition after years in development.

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

Lust for Life also featured another team of brothers, Hunt and Tony Sales, sons of comedian Soupy Sales.

Music career Early days 1960 1967 Osterberg began his music career as a drummer in various high school bands in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

After its release Scott Thurston was added to the band on keyboards electric piano and Bowie continued his support, but Pop's drug problem persisted.

During his anarchic performance of I'm Bored , Pop made no attempt to conceal the fact that he was lip synching, and he even tried to grab the teenage girls in the audience.

Among the songs Bowie and Pop wrote together were China Girl , Tonight , and Sister Midnight , all of which Bowie performed on his own albums later on (the last being recorded with different lyrics as Red Money on the album Lodger ).

During the recording of Soldier (1980), Iggy Pop and Williamson quarrelled over production (the latter apparently wanted a big, Phil Spector type sound) and Williamson was fired.

Post breakup (1975 2003) After going through rehab, Pop embarked upon a successful solo career in 1976, beginning with the albums The Idiot and Lust for Life .

Williamson worked with Pop as a producer and engineer during his early solo career the Kill City and New Values albums are a product of this collaboration but began a long break from the music industry in 1980.

The line up was completed by Tony and Hunt Sales, whom Bowie had known since the late 1970s for their contribution, on bass and drums respectively, to Iggy Pop's 1977 album Lust For Life .

A girlfriend recalled his scrawling notes on a cocktail napkin about a crazy rock star named Iggy or Ziggy , and on his return to England he declared his intention to create a character who looks like he's landed from Mars .

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.

While working with Brian Eno and sharing an apartment with Iggy Pop, he began to focus on minimalist, ambient music for the first of three albums, co produced with Tony Visconti, that became known as his Berlin Trilogy.

The 1990s In 1990, Pop recorded Brick by Brick , produced by Don Was, with members of Guns N' Roses and The B 52's as guests, as well as backup vocals by many local Hollywood groups, two of whom (Whitey Kirst and Craig Pike) would create his band to tour and perform on his Kiss My Blood video (1991), directed by Tim Pope and filmed at the Olympia in Paris.

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!

During the tour Bowie's observation of two seminal American proto punk artists led him to develop a concept that eventually found form in the Ziggy Stardust character a melding of the persona of Iggy Pop with the music of Lou Reed, producing the ultimate pop idol .

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.