His stint with the Stooges produced hits such as I Wanna Be Your Dog, Search and Destroy and 1969. Preceding The Ramones by a full decade, The Stooges truly were the godfathers of punk. They also heavily influenced acts like KISS and Alice Cooper in with Iggy's very gross glammed-out habit of cutting his chest and bleeding all over the stage while he sang. Obviously, drugs were in the mix.
By the mid-70s, the artist was so coked out if it wasn't for David Bowie, Iggy probably would have joined the 27 club. Going solo, Iggy Pop had a number of hard-rock hits such as The Passenger, Here Comes Success and Lust For Life which became punk rock standards. But what the singer wasn't known for was digging deep into the Christmas songbook.
Iggy Pop didn't just go deep into the songbook, he went all the way to the foundation. In 2009, Iggy Pop produced his version of White Christmas, arguably the best-selling and beloved Christmas tune of all-time.
Thankfully, Iggy Pop didn't try to croon like Bing Crosby did in the 1940s. Instead, he recruited some of his former Stooges band mates and screeched out the most punk version of the song ever.
So let's not wait any longer. Friends, I present to you Iggy Pops' White Christmas...
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