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The Blues Connections
            Of

Iggy Pop and The
     Stooges

Before Iggy Pop formed the great early punk rock band The Stooges, he was in a blues band called The Prime Movers. He moved from his home in Detroit to Chicago where he hung out with the great blues drummer Sam Lay, who was once a member of Howlin' Wolf's band. After returning to Detroit, he put together The Stooges whose intense, hostile, growling, and incoherent music took rock and roll to its wildest and weirdest limits.  Iggy and his bandmates were influenced by a whole string of sixties blues rock groups, including The Doors, The Who, Cream, and The Yardbirds. The Stooges released recordings of several classic blues including Muddy Waters' "Mannish Boy", Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love?" and Richard Berry's "Louie Louie".