I heard part of a song on another site that I didn't know was by Iggy Pop so I did I dive into Wikipedia and YouTube. I found a song by the first band he was in called The Iguanas. Way before he was The Godfather of Punk, they started as Ann Arbor (Michigan) High School students, and Iggy Pop was still known by his birth name Jim Osterberg. He was the drummer and one of the vocalists. It was a garage rock band that mainly performed covers of British Invasion songs at high school concerts and fraternity parties. They cut several records and recorded one single, a cover version of Bo Diddley's "Mona" in 1965. Here it is.
Then he was in a blues band based in Ann Arbor, Michigan called The Prime Movers. When he joined the Prime Movers, James Osterberg took the name "Iggy", from his previous band The Iguanas. Here's a a recording of Iggy Pop singing the Muddy Waters song I'm a Man. And a whole bunch of other stuff.
After that he was in The Stooges, with one album labeled as Iggy and The Stooges, and then he went solo. Iggy Pop and David Bowie co-wrote a lot of songs, and Bowie later recorded some of them. Iggy Pop's version of China Girl came out on his 1977 album The Idiot. David Bowie's version didn't come out until 6 years later on Let's Dance. And since I'm posting The Stooges, I'll post The Seven Stooges, too. That's right, not The Three Stooges, but Seven.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5tmgj4thbI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SUHjQ4aUAU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BBAEUOOFKQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaLWQJ-vMY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU2Saobg1es