American singer-songwriter Iggy Pop, was BOTD in 1947. Born James Osterberg Jnr in Muskegon, Michigan, he began playing in rock bands in his teens. He studied briefly at the University of Michigan before moving to Chicago to pursue a music career. In 1967, he co-founded rock band Iggy and The Stooges, pumping out a series of high-octane hits including Lust For Life, The Passenger and Wild One. He became infamous for his theatrical, frequently shirtless and highly sexualised performances, and popularised the stage dive in concerts. He became close friends with David Bowie, moving together to Berlin to make music and wean themselves off heroin and reputedly starting a sexual affair. Iggy’s song China Girl became a hit single in Bowie’s 1983 album Let’s Dance. Iggy’s legacy sprang startlingly back to life in the mid 1990s when Lust For Life featured on the soundtrack to the film Trainspotting. His work and high-charged performance style was reinterpreted by a new generation of musicians including The Sex Pistols, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Hole, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails and the Smashing Pumpkins. Married three times and rampantly heterosexual for most of his life, he earns an Honorary SuperGay status for gratuitous nudity, general disruption to polite heterosexual society, and for inspiring freaks everywhere to embrace hedonism and rebellion.