Iggy Pop and the Stooges were punks before punk, throwing songs at their audiences like punches, according to rock journalist Lillian Roxon.

Following on from Iggy Pop's recent Australian tour, Robert de Young traces the life and work of this rock icon, widely regarded as the godfather of punk. He traces Iggy's historic performances when he and his band were performing wild and aggressive stage shows in Ann Arbor and Detroit Michigan in the late 1960s, and then in New York, years before the "punk" movement began in Britain in the late 1970s. - from ABC Radio National website
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https://www.abc.net.au/listen/radionational/archived/intothemusic/iggy-pop---real-wild-child/3013514