NEW YORK • At 71, Michigan-born rocker James Osterberg Jr - better known by his stage persona Iggy Pop - does not care what you call him. But, over time, he has earned a reputation as the godfather of punk.
This is mostly due to his tenure as frontman of proto-punk band The Stooges, but also because his stage presence embodied a gleeful but slightly scary abandon that became synonymous with the genre.
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