"Funtime (Iggy Pop song) ""Funtime"" is a song written by David Bowie and Iggy Pop, first released by Iggy Pop on his 1977 album entitled ""The Idiot"". It reflects Iggy and Bowie's growing fascination with the German music scene, and bears marked similarities to ""Lila Engel"" by Neu!. It has since been covered by multiple artists including Blondie, Boy George, Bebe Buell, R.E.M. and The Cars. Iggy had the idea for the song after hearing the Sex Pistols cover the song ""No Fun"" by his band The Stooges, lyrically the song's ironic take on fun is similar to the song"
"Iggy Azalea Amethyst Amelia Kelly (born 7 June 1990), known professionally as Iggy Azalea (), is an Australian rapper, singer, songwriter, model and television personality. Azalea moved to the United States at the age of 16 to pursue a career in music, and has since resided in Los Angeles. Her stage name, from the masculine ""Egnatius"", comes from the name of her dog and the street she lived on. She earned public recognition after releasing music videos for her songs ""Pu$$y"" and ""Two Times"" on YouTube. In 2012 Azalea signed a recording contract with Grand Hustle Records, which is owned"
"a reference to the Queen song ""Khashoggi's Ship"" (which is about the real life Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi). Pop (alternately Polo, Bap, DJ, Buddy) – An elderly librarian trying to figure out the ""exact date the music died"", in some productions in love with Scaramouche, believed to be named after the creation of reality television talent shows (the example given varies depending on the production, but includes ""Popstars"", ""Pop Idol"", ""The X Factor"", or the relevant regional variant). Probably named for Iggy Pop or simply a diminutive for ""Grandfather"". In the German production his full name is ""Bap Niedecken""."
"The Iguanas (Michigan band) The Iguanas were an American garage rock band formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1963. Beginning as a duo, the group is best-remembered as the launching pad for the musical career of influential punk rock artist Iggy Pop. The band was one of the most popular acts in Michigan during 1965, and recorded one single, a cover version of Bo Diddley's ""Mona"", along with additional material later released on compilation albums. Ann Arbor High School students Iggy Pop, then known by his birth name Jim Osterberg (drums, vocals), and Jim McLaughlin (lead guitar, vocals) first came"
"Iggy Pop, and recorded several solo albums. He is currently a member of Slinky Vagabond. The 1979 court ruling had left many issues between Lydon and McLaren unresolved. Five years later, Lydon filed another action. Finally, on 16 January 1986, Lydon, Jones, Cook and the estate of Sid Vicious were awarded control of the band's heritage, including the rights to ""The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle"" and all the footage shot for it—more than 250 hours. That same year, a fictionalised film account of Vicious's relationship with Spungen was released: ""Sid and Nancy"", directed by Alex Cox. In his autobiography,"
"kind of ill and kind of dirty, and Ron had those two things covered!"" The three nicknamed Osterberg ""Pop"" after a local character whom Osterberg resembled. Shortly after witnessing an MC5 concert in Ann Arbor, Osterberg began using the stage name ""Iggy Pop"", a name that he has used ever since. Though the Stooges had formed, Iggy Pop attributes two key motivating influences to move the band forward. The first was seeing the Doors perform at a homecoming dance for the University of Michigan. The second was seeing an all-girls rock band from Princeton, New Jersey called the Untouchable perform."
"The Stooges The Stooges, also known as Iggy and the Stooges, were an American rock band formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1967 by singer Iggy Pop, guitarist Ron Asheton, drummer Scott Asheton, and bassist Dave Alexander. Playing a raw, primitive style of rock and roll, 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 Iggy Pop. After releasing two albums—""The Stooges"" (1969) and ""Fun House"" (1970)—the group disbanded briefly, and reformed with a different lineup to release ""Raw Power"" (1973) before breaking up again"
"Iggy Pop. An alternative club version was released under the ""He's Frank (Washing Up)"" title with the video featuring some footage of Iggy Pop acting and saying lyrics. The band's debut album, ""I Think We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat"", is the first to be co-produced by Cook's longtime engineer Simon Thornton, who also sings on one track. The album was released 6 January 2009 exclusively at Amazon.com on CD, with downloadable format and other stores scheduled for a month later on 3 February. Cook released a mix album in 2010 titled ""The Legend Returns"" as a covermount album in"
"Know It All"" also appeared in the video game ""NASCAR Thunder 2004"". Skull Ring Skull Ring is the fourteenth studio album by American rock singer Iggy Pop, released in November 2003. Every track on the album features guest performers. The performers are The Stooges, The Trolls, Green Day, Sum 41, and Peaches. The performers on most of the tracks on the album are The Trolls, Iggy's band from the ""Beat 'Em Up"" era. Members of his original band The Stooges also appear on some of the tracks. One single, ""Little Know It All"", was released from the album and featured"
"Iggy Pop live. Oakey borrows from another of his influences and the title ""Love Action (I Believe in Love)"" is named after the Lou Reed song ""I Believe in Love"". The song contains another cryptic reference to Lou Reed in the lyric, ""I believe what the old man said"". Oakey, speaking in 1982 said, ""no one ever asks me who the old man is... it's Lou (Reed)."" The release of the single was widely advertised in music press in early August 1981 with prominence given also to the B-side ""Hard Times"" as well as the A-side, and to the fact"
"n’ roll history."" In December, 2016, the album was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Alternative Music Album category. Post Pop Depression Post Pop Depression is the seventeenth studio album by American rock singer Iggy Pop, released on March 18, 2016, by Loma Vista Recordings. Produced by Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, the album was recorded in secrecy and features contributions from Queens of the Stone Age's Dean Fertita and Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders. Pop and Homme began working on the album in January 2015. Pop contacted Homme by text message to ask if"
"Post Pop Depression Post Pop Depression is the seventeenth studio album by American rock singer Iggy Pop, released on March 18, 2016, by Loma Vista Recordings. Produced by Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, the album was recorded in secrecy and features contributions from Queens of the Stone Age's Dean Fertita and Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders. Pop and Homme began working on the album in January 2015. Pop contacted Homme by text message to ask if he was interested in writing music together. After they spoke by phone, Pop sent Homme some lyrics by mail, along with"
"Beat 'Em Up Beat 'Em Up, is the thirteenth studio album by American rock singer Iggy Pop. Recorded at Hit Factory Criteria studios in Miami Beach, Florida, it is the first Iggy Pop album in which The Trolls were credited. The Trolls were: Iggy Pop, Whitey Kirst, Pete Marshall, Alex Kirst and Lloyd ""Mooseman"" Roberts. 'Art Collins, Pop's manager, said of the album: ""I'm not saying this is another ""Raw Power"", but if ""Raw Power"" is a true Iggy album, then this is another true Iggy album"". He added there would be some ""ranting on the album, some humor, some"
"Beat 'Em Up Beat 'Em Up, is the thirteenth studio album by American rock singer Iggy Pop. Recorded at Hit Factory Criteria studios in Miami Beach, Florida, it is the first Iggy Pop album in which The Trolls were credited. The Trolls were: Iggy Pop, Whitey Kirst, Pete Marshall, Alex Kirst and Lloyd ""Mooseman"" Roberts. 'Art Collins, Pop's manager, said of the album: ""I'm not saying this is another ""Raw Power"", but if ""Raw Power"" is a true Iggy album, then this is another true Iggy album"". He added there would be some ""ranting on the album, some humor, some"
"Iggy Pop. Defries steered her to Elektra, for whom she recorded two (unreleased) albums ""Candy From A Stranger"" (produced by Man Parrish) and ""Flowers"" (co-produced by Mick Ronson and Dieter Meier), those songs previewed in a performance at Ronnie Scotts alongside Ronson on guitar. Elektra released her third set as her debut album. Dillon moved to London where she met her husband Steve Bywater, who was a member of the ""Churchfitters"" (also known as the Blue Lighthouse Brigade in alternate form) alongside Pete Brown (bass and sax) Geoff Coombs (Mandolin,whistles and Vocals) and Angus Wallace (Guitar and vocals). Steve Bywaters"
"of the 9th Annual ""Billboard"" Women in Music honorees as a chart-topper. In late 2014, it was announced she was placed at number-one on ""Billboard"" Year-End's Top New Artists chart. In 2015, Azalea also led the 2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards nominations with five. She received twelve nominations at the 2015 ""Billboard"" Music Awards. In 2016, Azalea was presented with the Woman of the Year award by GQ Australia. Iggy Azalea Amethyst Amelia Kelly (born 7 June 1990), known professionally as Iggy Azalea (), is an Australian rapper, singer, songwriter, model and television personality. Azalea moved to the United States at"
"The Idiot (album) The Idiot is the debut solo album by American rock singer Iggy Pop. It was the first of two LPs released in 1977 which Pop wrote and recorded in collaboration with David Bowie, who is credited as producer. As sessions for the album began before the recording of Bowie's ""Low"" (1977), ""The Idiot"" has been called the unofficial beginning of Bowie's Berlin period. Described by Pop as musically ""a cross between James Brown and Kraftwerk,"" ""The Idiot"" is a departure from the guitar-based proto-punk of his former band the Stooges, and has been compared with Bowie's ""Berlin"
"Jimmy Pop James Moyer Franks (born August 27, 1972), better known by the stage name Jimmy Pop (originally Jimmy Pop Ali), is an American recording artist, singer-songwriter, rapper, multi-instrumentalist and composer. He is best known as the lead singer, rhythm guitarist, primary songwriter, and co-founder of the band Bloodhound Gang along with Daddy Long Legs. Pop was born in Trappe, Pennsylvania, the son of Alice Ann (born Moyer) and Richard Lee Franks. He was raised Lutheran, but ceased practicing as soon as his parents approved his request to do so. He graduated from Perkiomen Valley High School in 1990 and"
"Rob Duprey Rob Duprey is an American rock guitarist, keyboardist and songwriter best known for his collaborations with Iggy Pop. Duprey was also a guitarist for the mid-1970s New York City underground pop band Mumps, led by Lance Loud and Kristian Hoffman. He is currently a member of the Washington DC-area band, The Loggers, along with Stock Wilson (guitar, vocals), Vince Sanfuentes (bass), and Piers Hackley (drums). Mumps, ""Crocodile Tears"" single. 1977. (Bomp! Records BEJ-1 ; reissued 2005, Sympathy For The Record Industry SFTRI 759)<br> Mumps, ""Rock & Roll This, Rock & Roll That"" single. 1978. (Perfect Records PR-1)<br> Gary"
"Skull Ring Skull Ring is the fourteenth studio album by American rock singer Iggy Pop, released in November 2003. Every track on the album features guest performers. The performers are The Stooges, The Trolls, Green Day, Sum 41, and Peaches. The performers on most of the tracks on the album are The Trolls, Iggy's band from the ""Beat 'Em Up"" era. Members of his original band The Stooges also appear on some of the tracks. One single, ""Little Know It All"", was released from the album and featured Sum 41. A music video for the song received significant airplay.. ""Little"
"Après Après is the sixteenth studio album by American rock singer Iggy Pop. Consisting partly of covers sung in French, it was released on 9 May 2012 on Thousand Mile Inc after the album was rejected by Virgin EMI Records. Pop said his record company would have 'preferred that I do a rock album with popular punks' and that ""They didn't think they would make any money, they didn't think my fans would like it - very sensible attitudes for a sensible sort of person - but that's a different sort of person than I am."" The album has been"
"lead singer, was later to be one of Pope’s many clients, as a pop promoter director. While still at HyVision, in 1979 Pope met Alex McDowell, who ran Rocking Russian, a company that designed T-shirts and record sleeves from a studio in Berwick Street. Alex had designed Iggy Pop’s album sleeve for ""Soldier"" and Pope was a massive Iggy Pop fan. (Pope later became a close friend to the singer and worked with him many times). The duo went on to form a very successful and long-lasting relationship with McDowell as production designer and Pope as director – before McDowell"
"compilation (2001). Ron Asheton Ronald Franklin Asheton (July 17, 1948 – c. January 6, 2009) was an American guitarist, bassist and co-songwriter with Iggy Pop for the rock band the Stooges. He formed the Stooges along with Pop and his brother, drummer Scott Asheton, and bassist Dave Alexander. Asheton, once ranked as number 29 on ""Rolling Stone's"" list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time is currently (as of November 2014) ranked at number 60. Asheton was born in Washington, D.C. He already had five years of practice on the accordion behind him when he began playing bass guitar at"
"Brick by Brick Brick by Brick is the ninth studio album by American singer Iggy Pop, released in June 1990 by record label Virgin. After attracting mixed reviews for much of his 1980s output, Pop hired longtime Stooges fan Don Was as producer, who would later produce ""Avenue B"", and opted for a hard rock sound. Many songs on the album incorporate a lyrical theme of the United States facing dangers of cultural decay and implosion. Slash and Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses fame were featured on the album as songwriters and performers. The cover was drawn by American"
"""Blue"" Gene Tyranny (Robert Sheff). When the drummer left, they replaced him with Iggy Pop (James Osterberg), then 18 years old. The Prime Movers gave him the nickname ""Iggy"" as he had played in the band The Iguanas. According to biographer Jim Ambrose, the two years Osterberg spent in the band made him aware of ""art, politics, and experimentation"". In 1977 Erlewine founded Matrix Software. He was the first person to program astrology on microcomputers and make astrological programs available to the astrological community. He has published more than forty books on astrology and related topics. Michael Erlewine and his"
"Iggy Pop track, ""Lust for Life"". Nine Inch Nails' hit song, ""Closer"", features a modified sample of the Roland bass drum from the song. Trent Reznor also covered the song with Peter Murphy during a live radio session. The drum loop of ""Nightclubbing"" was replicated by Oasis for ""Force of Nature"", a track recorded for their 2002 album ""Heathen Chemistry"". Sources Nightclubbing (song) ""Nightclubbing"" is a song written by David Bowie and Iggy Pop, first released by Iggy Pop on his debut solo studio album, ""The Idiot"" in 1977. It has been since considered as ""a career highlight"", along with"
"singles, so used the pseudonym as a hint. A series of small shows were played in 2010, at 250- to 1,000-capacity venues with the plan not to say who the band really are and just announce the shows as if they were a new band. In many cases, hip-hop and rap artist prefer to use pseudonyms that represents some variation of their name, personality, or interests. Prime examples include Iggy Azalea (her name comes from her dog name, Iggy, and her home street in Mullumbimby, Azalea street) Ol' Dirty Bastard (who was known under at least six aliases), Diddy (previously"
"total of 61 million equivalent units certified according to Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). She became the first woman to receive the Digital Diamond Award certification from RIAA, is one of three artists with at least two Diamond certified songs (""Bad Romance"" and ""Poker Face""), and is the first and only artist to have two songs pass 7 million downloads (""Poker Face"" and ""Just Dance""). Lady Gaga Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for her unconventionality and provocative work, as well as"
"described as containing ″crooning vocals, Cole Porter covers, soft melodies, and an all-around sense of everything suave″. When asked by Bill Flanagan if he had heard any good records lately, Bob Dylan mentioned ""Après"". The cover photo is referring to the figure ""La Conscience"" played by Iggy Pop in the French movie ""L'Étoile du jour"" (""Morning Star"") by Sophie Blondy. Après Après is the sixteenth studio album by American rock singer Iggy Pop. Consisting partly of covers sung in French, it was released on 9 May 2012 on Thousand Mile Inc after the album was rejected by Virgin EMI Records."
"Pope Francis about the crude jokes he made in the film ""Ted"", and in October 2017, in a public interview conducted by Catholic Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, stated that he has sought forgiveness from God for portraying a porn actor in ""Boogie Nights"". He later stated on Andy Cohen's radio show, Radio Andy, that ""it was a joke taken too seriously."" Mark Wahlberg Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971) is an American actor, producer, businessman, model, rapper, and songwriter. Also known by his former stage name Marky Mark, from his early career as frontman for the group"
"name came partly from the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, and partly because Ziggy was ""one of the few Christian names I could find beginning with the letter 'Z'"". In 1990, Bowie explained that the ""Ziggy"" part came from a tailor's shop called Ziggy's that he passed on a train. He liked it because it had ""that Iggy [Pop] connotation but it was a tailor's shop, and I thought, Well, this whole thing is gonna be about clothes, so it was my own little joke calling him Ziggy. So Ziggy Stardust was a real compilation of things."" He later asserted that Ziggy"
"International Pop Festival in 1969. David Bowie released a live performance of the song as a single in the UK in 1974; the recording was taken from Bowie's live album ""David Live"". (The B-side, ""Panic in Detroit"", was not on that album but was from the same concert. It was added to the 2005 release of the album.) Amii Stewart released a disco version of the song in 1979. It was Stewart's debut single and reached number one in the U.S. charts in April 1979; it also made it to the soul singles and disco charts, becoming the best-known version"
"| rowspan=2|2014 | 2018 | 2014 | rowspan=2|2014 Icona Pop Icona Pop () is a Swedish electropop duo that formed in 2009, with electro house, punk and indie pop music influences. The two members Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo, who grew up in Stockholm, create what has been described as music ""you can both laugh and cry to at the same time"". They signed to TEN Music Group in 2009. Their biggest hit to date has been ""I Love It"". Since September 2012, the duo have been based in the United States, in Los Angeles and New York City. Caroline"