Loco Mosquito  Photo by Blake Little IGGY POP WAS BORN JAMES
JEWELL OSTERBERG in 1947, the son of an English teacher. An only
child brought up mostly in a series of trailer parks near Ann
Arbor, Michigan, James was an inquisitive, sensitive child, not
a troublemaker -- he even became student-council president of
his high school and a member of the debate team. He liked to
read.  Come puberty and graduation time, though, James had
developed delinquent tendencies -- petty theft, vandalism,
public intoxication, general teen-running-wild-type stuff. All
in good fun. Then he got into drumming. His band, the Iguanas
(whence "Iggy"), got good enough that they eventually backed
Motor City bands such as the Shangri-Las, the Four Tops and the
Marvelettes. But that fell apart.  Inspired by the dramatic
howls of Jim Morrison and the Detroit noise of the MC5, Iggy
formed the raw, "bluesy" Stooges, who couldn't much play their
instruments but shared a passion for the ugly beauty of the
industrial Michigan landscape. At the