Rock star Iggy Pop is known as the former lead singer of the 1960s proto-punk band The Stooges and, individually, as the Godfather of Punk. Pop is well-known for his unpredictable live performances, which have often involved acts of self-mutilation and were delivered almost always without a shirt.
As a solo artist, Pop is known for his songs ‘Lust for Life,’ ‘Real Wild Child (Wild One),’ and ‘Candy’ with the B-52’s singer Kate Pierson (watch below), among others. And his song ‘China Girl’ became a big hit when his friend David Bowie covered in on his 1983 album, Let’s Dance.
With The Stooges, Pop was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010, and in 2020, Pop received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
At 76, Pop continues to perform live on stage and without a shirt, as seen recently at the Cruel World Fest (below).
With the photos above, the photographer wrote about Pop: “He has always been one of the humans on earth I thought of as sort of a mythical creature in a punk rock fairytale, a fiction of our imagination because an ideal rockstar like him wouldn’t exis……” He added that at the Cruel World Festival, “we witnessed him in his flesh…”
