Iggy on the origin of Stooges
New York Post [Page Six] - May 14, 2007
He’s Really An Igg-head
IGGY Pop has intellectual pretensions about the birth of the Stooges.
The look for the band “was conceived in the University of Michigan
undergraduate library,” Pop told Guitar World magazine. “I got the
idea to sing shirtless from a book that I read on Egyptology. I kept
looking at the pharaohs and thought, these guys look bitchin’, they
never wear shirts.”