Latest Iggy Pop News
Iggy Pop Receives Polar Music Prize
Iggy Pop has been honoured with the Polar Music Prize.The 'Lust for Life' hitmaker and the Ensemble intercontemporain were presented with the 2022 accolade by King Carl XVI Gustaf at a gala ceremony at The...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 25 May 2022
Iggy Pop To Receive 2022 Polar Music Prize
Iggy Pop is the joint recipient of the 2022 Polar Music Prize.The 74-year-old Grammy-winning punk legend and the French chamber orchestra Ensemble intercontemporain are set to receive one million Swedish Kroner (£83,060/ $110,602) as part...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 09 February 2022
Miley Cyrus Leads Tributes To Late Iconic Music Photographer Mick Rock
Miley Cyrus and Sharon Osbourne have led tributes to legendary music photographer, Mick Rock, who has died aged 72.Famous for his photographs of the likes of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Queen, and Lou Reed, to...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 19 November 2021
Bryan Adams Photographed Naked Rita Ora In Bathtub For Pirelli Calendar 2022
Bryan Adams photographed a naked Rita Ora in the bathtub for the iconic Pirelli Calendar 2022.The Canadian rock star and photographer was tasked with taking snaps of famous faces, also including Cher, Grimes, Jennifer Hudson,...
By Bang Showbiz in Fashion / Beauty on 06 August 2021
Maneskin Recruit Iggy Pop For New Version Of I Wanna Be Your Slave
Maneskin have released a new version of 'I Wanna Be Your Slave' featuring Iggy Pop.The Italian 'Eurovision' 2021 winners - comprising Damiano David, Victoria de Angelis, Ethan Torchio, and Thomas Raggi - have teamed up...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 06 August 2021
Weird Music Story Of The Week: Iggy Pop's Parrot Is A Sleaford Mods Fan
Iggy Pop's pet parrot Biggy Pop has gone viral this week after the punk rocker shared a video of the bird dancing along to the song Tweet Tweet Tweet by Sleaford Mods. And we are...
By Holly Mosley in Music / Festivals on 11 May 2021
Iggy Pop And Seven Other Rockstars Who Dipped Their Toes Into Acting
With the news Iggy Pop has joined the cast of dark comedy Blue Iguana, directed by Jeremy LaLonde, we're reflecting on all the other rockstars who have embarked on acting careers, however brief. Iggy Pop...
By Holly Mosley in Music / Festivals on 21 April 2021
Iggy Pop Releases Covid-19 Inspired Song
Iggy Pop has released a Covid-19 inspired song, 'Dirty Little Virus'. The 73-year-old singer's new tune starts with the lyrics "Covid-19 is on the scene", and Iggy was driven to pen the tune because coronavirus...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 22 December 2020
Asap Rocky, Iggy Pop And Tyler, The Creator Star In Gucci Tailoring Campaign
A$AP Rocky, Iggy Pop and Tyler, The Creator star in Gucci's new tailoring campaign.The rappers and rock legend shared a pot of spaghetti for the visuals and video, in which animal-lover Iggy rocks a stylish...
By Bang Showbiz in Fashion / Beauty on 29 September 2020
Iggy Pop's Cockatoo Biggy Pop Becomes Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital Patron
Iggy Pop's cockatoo Biggy Pop has been named a founding patron of Australia's Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital.The 73-year-old rock legend's pet - which he adopted 12 years ago - has been given the role by...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 25 August 2020
Queens Of The Stone Age Announce Huge Finsbury Park Gig For June 2018
Queens of the Stone Age have announced details of a huge outdoor gig at Finsbury Park in north London for next summer, with major acts such as Iggy Pop and Run The Jewels in support.The...
By Ed Biggs in Music / Festivals on 22 November 2017
Iggy Pop Awarded France's 'Highest Cultural Honour'
Iggy Pop has been made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government.The Stooges frontman has been awarded the country's ''highest cultural honour'' and joined the likes of rock legends...
By Clive King in Music / Festivals on 27 April 2017
Ben Walton's Top Ten Albums Of 2016
Some great bands made awful albums and other surprising bands put out great work.Putting this list together was pretty hard work and near misses on the top ten go to CRX, Banks and Steelz, Suede...
By Ben Walton in Music / Festivals on 25 December 2016
Iris North's Top Rock Albums Of 2016
Rock royalty deaths easily earned the "least favorite musical moments of 2016" award. Despite the loss of talented artists, the music that came into being in 2016 had quite a few highlights. Here are ten...
By Iris North in Music / Festivals on 24 December 2016
Iggy Pop: 'I Feel Better Now Than I Did At 18'
The rock star turns 70 in April next year (17), but is still on top form despite his former reckless antics involving partying and drugs. During a discussion at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity,...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 23 June 2016
Iggy Pop And Josh Homme Announce Collaboration Album 'Post Pop Depression'
Punk veteran Iggy Pop and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme have revealed that they’ve recorded an album together, and are planning to release it in the next few months.Recorded in secrecy in...
By Ed Biggs in Music / Festivals on 22 January 2016
Iggy And The Stooges Saxophonist Steve Mackay Dies At 66
Iggy and The Stooges saxophonist Steve Mackay has died aged 66.The Michigan-born musician was admitted into hospital in Daly City, California, last month with sepsis, an infection that can lead to organ failure, but it...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 12 October 2015
The Stooges Collaborator Steve Mackay Dies At 66
The saxophonist had been hospitalised in California in September (15) with life-threatening infection sepsis, a complication that can lead to multiple organ failure, and on Sunday (11Oct15), Iggy announced he had passed away....
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 12 October 2015
Slash For Bizarre GutterdäMmerung Movie
Slash is set to star in a bizarre ''dark fairytale'' movie.The iconic guitarist is the latest musician to join the strange 'Gutterdämmerung' film, which has been described as a ''rock 'n' roll/film/gig concept'' from visual...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 05 October 2015
Kylie Minogue Recruits Iggy Pop For Christmas Album
The Spinning Around singer was rumoured to be making the Christmas disc in September (15) and reports suggested she had been in the studio with her sister Dannii to record some covers....
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 02 October 2015
Kylie Minogue To Release Christmas Album
Kylie Minogue is releasing a Christmas album.The pop star has been snowed under recording classic Yule Tide tracks for her LP 'Kylie Christmas' and will be joined by her sister Dannii Minogue for a duet...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 02 October 2015
Alice Cooper: I Came Within Two Or Three Weeks Of Dying
Alice Cooper was told he would die if he didn't give up alcohol. The 'Poison' hitmaker revealed he was drinking so heavily at one point that his doctor gave him an ultimatum that if he...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 28 August 2015
Iggy Pop Features In Tony Wilson Video Tribute
Wilson, a co-founder of Factory Records and the man behind famed U.K. dance club The Hacienda, was best known for promoting bands from his native Manchester, England, including New Order and Happy Mondays....
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 11 August 2015
New Order Unveil New Song
New Order have unveiled the first song from their new album.Then band - featuring Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert, Phil Cunningham and Tom Chapman - have premiered 'Restless' online, with the track being their...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 28 July 2015
Foo Fighters Announce Return To UK With Three September Shows
Foo Fighters have announced they'll be returning to the UK in September, just months after Dave Grohl’s broken leg forced the band to cancel arena shows and pull out of their Glastonbury headlining slot. The...
By Stephanie Chase in Music / Festivals on 13 July 2015
Brandon Flowers For New Order Lp
Brandon Flowers and Iggy Pop will feature on New Order's new album.The rockers will be joined by The Killers frontman and 68-year-old singer/songwriter on their forthcoming studio record 'Music Complete', which will be their first...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 08 July 2015
New Order Album To Feature Guest Stars Including Brandon Flowers
As well as announcing a short UK tour this autumn, the returning indie veterans New Order have revealed that their upcoming album will feature a number of guest stars from musical past and present.Music Complete,...
By Ed Biggs in Music / Festivals on 07 July 2015
Debbie Harry Loved Iggy Pop Team Up
Debbie Harry loved teaming up with Iggy Pop for Paco Rabanne's Black XS campaign. The Blondie singer stars in the advert for the fragrance alongside the 'Real Wild Child' hitmaker in the Parisian brand's Be...
By Bang Showbiz in Fashion / Beauty on 17 February 2015
Iggy Pop Twerks Around House With Wife
Iggy Pop loves to twerk around his house with his wife when a good song is played on the radio. The 67-year-old rocker regularly throws some shapes with Nina Alu when they are chilling out...
By Bang Showbiz in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 24 November 2014
Iggy Pop Tries To Twerk
Iggy Pop enjoys twerking around his house.The 67-year-old musician has said he was ''proud'' when Debbie Harry made comments earlier this year saying he had been twerking for his whole life.In an interview with The...
By Bang Showbiz in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 24 November 2014
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