Iggy Pop is the most commanding persona in rock music, but it was his favourite songs from the 1960s that set him on that path to domination.

Every member of MC5 pursued different paths after the band ... he also married musician Patti Smith and became her collaborator, cowriting songs like “The People Have the Power.” ...

He could complicate the hell out of a bass line, and it always worked in the context of the song.” Iggy Pop, whose Stooges paired with the MC5 as the twin titans of the Michigan rock scene at ...