Rock and proto-punk icon Iggy Pop was born James Newell Osterberg Jr. in Muskegon, Michigan, on April 21, 1947. The former Stooges frontman, known for his aggressive stage persona that often involved violence and nudity, grew up in a trailer park in Michigan, with his father working as a high school English teacher and baseball coach in Dearborn. In Paul Trynka’s biography “Iggy Pop: Open Up And Bleed,” the singer’s former neighbor Brad Jones remembers the unusual family always standing out in their neighborhood. “It was a small trailer with a very large mother and a very skinny father, like something you’d see in a cult movie. The trailer was very small, and the father was an Ichabod Crane kinda guy, real tall and thin, and his mom was just a square body. But you know what? They connected alright. Somehow it worked.”After spending time studying at the University of Michigan and playing in various blues clubs around Chicago in the mid-1960s, Osterberg changed his stage name to Iggy Pop and formed the Stooges. They signed with Elektra Records in 1968. Though he never had much commercial success, Pop became a key influence for many punk bands that followed. The Stooges’ “Raw Power” album is considered a classic, and Pop’s “Lust For Life” has become a signature song, featured in the movie “Trainspotting.”