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A trailer park on Carpenter Road, a record shop on State Street, a house on Packard Road and a ballpark in Cincinnati where he stood on the crowd. Hold him up, then go and stand there.
Behind: Iggy Pop at the State Theatre, Minneapolis, 25 October 1977. Michael Markos. Pasted up: The Stooges in a 1969 Elektra publicity photograph. Iggy Pop, then billed as Iggy Stooge, in a 1969 Elektra publicity photograph. Iggy Pop in Cardiff, 1979. TimDuncan.
Michigan to Cincinnati
Iggy, then 23, left the stage, went into the crowd and stood up on the fans’ shoulders. Pass him the same way across Michigan: point at the crowd to lift it, then hand him on. Only the next hand can take him.
Hand 1 of 7: Carpenter Rd. Coachville Gardens.
Childhood · Carpenter Road, Pittsfield Township, near Ann Arbor
James Osterberg, later Iggy Pop, grew up at Coachville Gardens, on the east side of Carpenter Road south of Packard.
He played golf with his father at Pat’s Par Three nearby. It is the driving range at Miles of Golf now.
Where he grew up, and people’s homes. Named here, never mapped.
State Street, Ann Arbor
At 615 East Huron Street, on the corner of State Street by the campus. Walk down State Street to the Michigan Union and the old Discount Records corner.
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A jar, lid on.
A fan handed him a jar of peanut butter, and he smeared it on his chest.
Professional baseball was played on this corner from 1884 until June 1970. Dalton Avenue now runs across the old field, and a plaque stands where the right-field grandstand was.
The ballpark is gone. Walk Findlay Street: a plaque stands where the right-field grandstand was.
Bagley Street, Detroit
9 February 1974. The last show.
The Stooges played their last show here on 9 February 1974. A hostile crowd pelted the band with ice, coins and beer bottles.
The live album Metallic K.O. takes its name from the night. The Stooges did not play another concert until 2003.
A working car park for the office building. See it from Bagley Street; it is not run as an attraction.
275 Pentonville Road · King’s Cross
Pick a night on the bill.
The band had moved to London in 1972 at Bowie’s urging, for Iggy to make a new album with James Williamson.
A blue plaque went up in July 2022. Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth unveiled it.
They made Raw Power at CBS Studios that September and October. Williamson remembered going from poverty to luxury at the Kensington Gardens Hotel.
Two mixes. Pick one.
No free photograph of James Williamson was good enough to use here.
A working club and venue. Read the plaque from the pavement, or buy a ticket for a night inside.
Pentonville Road, London N1
The old King’s Cross Cinema still puts on bands and club nights. Pick one from its own listings and read the plaque on the way in.
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Iggy had no car and no licence. The Passenger is written from his seat in Bowie’s car. So ride. Three streets go by.
Parked in Schöneberg. Look out of the window.
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London · Miami · 2016
13 May 2016 · Kensington Gore, South Kensington
On 13 May 2016 Iggy Pop played here with Josh Homme, Dean Fertita and Troy Van Leeuwen of Queens of the Stone Age, Matt Helders of Arctic Monkeys and Matt Sweeney.
The set drew almost entirely on Post Pop Depression, with songs from The Idiot and Lust for Life. The film and live album came out on 28 October 2016.
Post Pop Depression was made mainly at Homme’s home studio in Joshua Tree. The two paid for it themselves and recorded in secret.
In March 2016 TIME spoke to him in the back garden of his Miami home, walled in and full of trees, he said. The magazine called it a modest home by the beach. He was 68.
Kensington Gore, London SW7
Concerts most nights, and the hall’s own tours. Choose from its listings.
See what’s on12 places you can visit. Coachville Gardens and his home in Miami are private, so both are named and left off the map.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working high school. See it from West Stadium Boulevard; the grounds are for its pupils.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A sandwich shop at State and William now. Walk in for lunch.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. The house is gone. What stands at the address now is private: look from Packard Road.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. The University of Michigan’s union on State Street. See it from the street, or check the university’s hours before going in.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Empty and shut. See it from Grand River Avenue.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working car park for the office building. See it from Bagley Street; it is not run as an attraction.
601 West Stadium Boulevard, Ann Arbor
It was Ann Arbor High when Osterberg went there. He was on the golf team, and at weekends he drummed for the Iguanas.
A working high school. See it from West Stadium Boulevard; the grounds are for its pupils.
300 South State Street, Ann Arbor
Osterberg worked at Discount Records, 300 South State Street, while he was at Ann Arbor High.
A sandwich shop at State and William now. Walk in for lunch.
2666 Packard Road, Ann Arbor
From 1967 the band rehearsed in the Asheton family basement on Highlake Avenue; Dave Alexander joined them there.
The house is gone. What stands at the address now is private: look from Packard Road.
530 South State Street, Ann Arbor
In October 1968 Danny Fields saw the Stooges play the Union Ballroom here.
The University of Michigan’s union on State Street. See it from the street, or check the university’s hours before going in.
8952 Grand River Avenue, Detroit
It was built in 1928 in a Moorish Deco style, with a sprung dance floor upstairs.
Empty and shut. See it from Grand River Avenue.
The Michigan Building, Bagley Street, downtown Detroit
The Michigan Theatre opened on 23 August 1926, one of the finest movie palaces in Detroit.
A working car park for the office building. See it from Bagley Street; it is not run as an attraction.
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A hotel at the top of State Street, a walk from the Union and the old record shop.
State Street, Ann Arbor
At 615 East Huron Street, on the corner of State Street by the campus. Walk down State Street to the Michigan Union and the old Discount Records corner.
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Köthener Straße 38, Berlin
Three to four hours with Thilo Schmied, ending with a talk in the Meistersaal. Public tours run on selected dates; it meets outside Köthener Straße 38.
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Scala and the Royal Albert Hall still put on shows. Choose from their own listings.
Pentonville Road, London N1
The old King’s Cross Cinema still puts on bands and club nights. Pick one from its own listings and read the plaque on the way in.
See what’s onKensington Gore, London SW7
Concerts most nights, and the hall’s own tours. Choose from its listings.
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One original poster from our store, three books and four records tied to these places.
An original 1987 poster with Iggy Pop on the bill. 13.5 × 18.2 in, rolled, mint.
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Paul Trynka’s biography of Iggy Pop.
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A history of Iggy and the Stooges.
Find the bookThe Stooges · LP, Elektra EKS 74051, 1969
The first album, a year after Elektra signed them in Ann Arbor.
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Find a copyThe Stooges · LP, Elektra EKS-74071, 1970
The second album. The band’s house on Packard Road was the Fun House.
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Find a copyIggy and the Stooges · LP, Columbia KC 32111, 1973
Made at CBS Studios in London in 1972; the cover photograph was taken at King’s Cross.
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Find a copyIggy Pop · LP, RCA AFL1-2488, 1977
Made in Berlin in the spring of 1977.
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14 of 14 places · 18 of 18 Moments
Carpenter Road, Pittsfield Township, near Ann Arbor
James Osterberg grows up on Carpenter Road and plays golf with his father.
601 West Stadium Boulevard, Ann Arbor
At Ann Arbor High he drums for the Iguanas at weekends.
300 South State Street, Ann Arbor
He works at Discount Records on State Street.
2666 Packard Road, Ann Arbor
Rehearsals begin in the Asheton family basement.
The band sublets a house for the summer and takes its name.
The band moves to 2666 Packard Road: the Fun House.
530 South State Street, Ann Arbor
Danny Fields sees the Stooges, and Elektra signs them.
8952 Grand River Avenue, Detroit
Russ Gibb books the Stooges at his Grand River ballroom.
The Michigan Building, Bagley Street, downtown Detroit
The Stooges’ last show for 29 years, at the Michigan Palace.
Findlay Street at Dalton Avenue, Queensgate, Cincinnati
Iggy stands on the crowd at the Cincinnati Summer Pop Festival, and smears peanut butter on his chest.
WLWT’s 90-minute cut of the festival goes out.
275 Pentonville Road, King’s Cross
Iggy and the Stooges play their first UK show, and Mick Rock takes the Raw Power cover.
The band makes Raw Power at CBS Studios in London.
Kensington Gore, South Kensington
Post Pop Depression live, with Josh Homme’s band.
Hauptstraße 155, Schöneberg
Iggy lives for a time in Bowie’s flat on Hauptstraße.
Nürnberger Straße 50–55, Schöneberg
The Nürnberger Straße club where Bowie and Iggy were regulars.
Köthener Straße 38, Kreuzberg
Lust for Life is made in Berlin in a matter of weeks.
Miami, Florida
TIME talks to him at home in Miami.
The Stooges, 1969
Iggy Stooge, 1969
Cardiff, 1979
