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Metro
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Rock legend, 78, wheeled off stage in coffin during bizarre exit
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Gig-goers at London's Alexandra Palace were left baffled as a rock icon's show wrapped up with a huge coffin being wheeled out onto the stage. A lone arm waved from the black box, prompting laughter from the onlookers as they realised star of the show and music legend, Iggy Pop, was inside. As the huge coffin faced the front, the shirtless rocker opened the lid and smiled at the crowd shouting 'bye' and basking in the applause. Posting to his social media the 78-year-old star quipped: 'London was a hoot! How you exit is equally important to how you enter.' This marked the penultimate show in a handful of UK dates for the Grammy winner's Lust For Life tour, before he heads to Glasgow on June 3. Iggy kicked off the gig with TV Eye, a song he rose to fame with as a member of The Stooges. He blasted through over 20 hits before wrapping the show – before his coffin exit – with Funtime. The legend had previously performed at Manchester's O2 Victoria Warehouse before heading to London. He's off to In The Meadows festival in Dublin, Ireland, next then to a string of gigs in mainland Europe over the summer. The American rocker will head back to the States for two July gigs before jetting back over to Denmark, Sweden, Brazil, and Argentina. Fans were living for his coffin antics in London, with ktorreg writing on X: 'Only iggy … 😉 … may he long reign … 🔊🎶🎸.' 'Punk's not dead 🤘' added post_punk while Ingeastrid said: 'Always that smile…mischievous charmer.' Off-stage, life is much less rock and roll for Iggy who revealed at Cannes Film Festival he 'likes baths, sometimes with a rubber duck and bubbles'. More Trending He continued: 'Sometimes I get really upset if it's getting late in the day and I think to myself that I haven't done anything I really like. And music is what gives me pleasure you know, well music and the sea.' 'That's my default setting, so I'm always putting my pleasure first – I can get really desperate to seek pleasure – and when that happens usually it means someone takes me to the beach.' According to the rocker, about 95% of life is about being 'chill' rather than raising hell, despite what his on-stage persona might suggest. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: 'SXSW London will be a love letter to the city – we ought to be here' MORE: SXSW London: Everything you can expect from festival's inaugural week in the Capital MORE: Brothers deny murder of man who died from 'catastrophic' injuries 41 years ago
Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Huge rock icon leaves fans stunned after making VERY bizarre exit from stage in a coffin after London show
A huge rock icon left his fans stunned after making a very bizarre exit from the stage at a gig this weekend. Iggy Pop, 78, made his exit from the stage in a coffin in front of the crowds at London's Alexandra Palace after a show. Those in the audience at the American singer's Lust For Life showcase were even more shocked when he appeared shirtless in the coffin. He was then wheeled off as the crowd cheered and later shared the clip to his X account. The star penned in the caption: 'London was a hoot! How you exit is equally important to how you enter.' From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new Showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. Iggy, whose real name is James Osterberg Jr, has been going shirtless for most of his recent UK shows. Known for his unpredictable stage antics, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010 as a member of rock band The Stooges. Iggy appeared to be in good spirits - a far cry from a previous gig - which saw the singer swear at his audience. The foul-mouthed exchange took place in Venoge Festival in Penthaz, Switzerland back in 2023. As the spotlight lit up the stage, Iggy could be seen lifting his middle fingers on each hand to the audience. In 2020, Iggy received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grammys for his impressive career, which spans decades. However, he previously revealed how he was reluctant to accept the honour at first and said he 'hated' the Recording Academy as they tried to make contact with him. Speaking to music outlet Classic Rock, he explained: 'The Grammys kept wanting to talk to me on the phone. 'I kept telling my manager, "I don't want to talk to them. I hate those people. They want me to be an exhibit in their museum or something.''' He continued: 'Then when I finally spoke to the lady from the Grammys a couple of months later she said: "We're giving you the Lifetime Achievement. Without you, there's no Lil Nas X and there's no Billie Eilish." 'According to her, "You're a direct link to the artists that are at the top of our awards list this year." So that's what one person had to say, and I'll take that for what it's worth.' While Pop had previously been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Stooges in 2010, he said the Grammys were 'a tougher can of tuna to pry open.' He added, 'I suppose I kind of feel as if the Academy and I met halfway, something like that. It's sort of like a problem has been eliminated, put it that way … these things have been happening in my career for the last 10 years or so. At first it was almost grim. 'Like, "Okay, I got there, I got that. It doesn't make Raw Power any better or any worse." But after a while I came to appreciate that every person has a point of view. It took me a long time to appreciate that a lot of people have points of view that are nothing like mine whatsoever, but I need to respect them. Whereas when I was 25, it was like, "Agree with me or death."'
Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Iggy Pop, 78, goes shirtless as he gives energetic performance for his fans in Manchester
Iggy Pop commanded attention as he went shirtless for his performance at The 02 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester on Saturday. The singer, 78, is no stranger to stripping off during his shows and he did exactly that during his latest UK gig. Iggy, whose real name is James Osterberg Jr, sported a pair of black trousers with a matching belt and shoes. The hitmaker put on an energetic performance for the crowd as he struck a series of moves on stage. The hitmaker's impressive slim figure was on show for all to see as he animatedly dominated the stage with a band supporting him from behind. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new Showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. Known for his unpredictable stage antics, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010 as a member of rock band The Stooges. Iggy appeared to be in good spirits - a far cry from a previous gig - which saw the singer swear at his audience. The foul-mouthed exchange took place in Venoge Festival in Penthaz, Switzerland back in 2023. As the spotlight lit up the stage, Iggy could be seen lifting his middle fingers on each hand to the audience. In 2020, Iggy received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grammys for his impressive career, which spans decades. However, he previously revealed how he was reluctant to accept the honour at first and said he 'hated' the Recording Academy as they tried to make contact with him. Speaking to music outlet Classic Rock, he explained: 'The Grammys kept wanting to talk to me on the phone. 'I kept telling my manager, "I don't want to talk to them. I hate those people. They want me to be an exhibit in their museum or something.''' The hitmaker put on an energetic performance for the crowd as he struck a series of moves on stage He continued: 'Then when I finally spoke to the lady from the Grammys a couple of months later she said: "We're giving you the Lifetime Achievement. Without you, there's no Lil Nas X and there's no Billie Eilish." 'According to her, "You're a direct link to the artists that are at the top of our awards list this year." So that's what one person had to say, and I'll take that for what it's worth.' While Pop had previously been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Stooges in 2010, he said the Grammys were 'a tougher can of tuna to pry open.' He added, 'I suppose I kind of feel as if the Academy and I met halfway, something like that. It's sort of like a problem has been eliminated, put it that way … these things have been happening in my career for the last 10 years or so. At first it was almost grim. 'Like, "Okay, I got there, I got that. It doesn't make Raw Power any better or any worse." But after a while I came to appreciate that every person has a point of view. It took me a long time to appreciate that a lot of people have points of view that are nothing like mine whatsoever, but I need to respect them. Whereas when I was 25, it was like, "Agree with me or death."'
Telegraph
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Iggy Pop: 78 years old and still shirtless, still sensational
An upended coffin stood ominously stage left, as Iggy Pop (now 78), who notoriously cheated death with his hard-drugs habits well into middle age, slunk onstage and tore off his skimpy leather waistcoat to perform, as ever, topless. While his excellent younger band blasted forth a headlong TV Eye, a menacing grind that Iggy first created with his chaotic first band The Stooges in 1970, later to influence punk rockers of every stripe, the wrinkly-torso'd singer slipped his cordless microphone suggestively inside the waist of his black slacks. As he lolloped around up there, in what proved a terrific and explicitly life-affirming show, it was hard to forget his incorrigible antics as a performer over the years: as recently as the mid-2010s, Iggy, né James Newell Osterberg, was nightly defying doctor's orders by hurling himself repeatedly into the crowd, exacerbating his spinal scoliosis, and necessitating hip replacements. For six decades now, he has been reliably deranged in his commitment to performative shock and awe, a consistency, through all the craziness, that has made him one of rock's most enduring live attractions. Certainly, I'd place at least five or six Iggy shows in the Top Ten rock gigs I ever attended. But now that the stagediving has stopped and Stooges reunions are no longer possible, I did wonder beforehand how this incandescent stage presence can keep going deeper into his pensionable years. Inside Ally Pally's cavernous 10,000-capacity Great Hall, such doubts were quickly blown aside. As his two guitarists, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner, and Cuban-Argentinian femme-punk from Miami Ale Campos, joyfully clanged forth another iconic proto-punk riff, from 1973's Raw Power, brutally accented by a two-piece brass section, a pattern formed of Iggy's outright bangers ringing out in high-intensity performances, which plainly galvanised the man himself. Following a massed singalong of The Passenger's la-la-la chorus, he told the audience, 'F---ing bless you!', and his propulsive rhythm section then thumped forth the robust beat to Lust For Life, also from his mid-'70s Berlin period alongside David Bowie. Make no mistake, these were electrifying versions of Iggy's classics: in the here and now, at full pelt, with our diminutive hero by turns purring adorably like a benign monarch, and, on a feral, wailing-brass I Wanna Be Your Dog, yowling like a teenage delinquent. And just to remind us how lucky we all were to experience this, there was that coffin looming as a signifier of Iggy's survival after lifelong self-destruction. 'This is what it was like to be young in 1970', he announced before The Stooges' 1970, and as its heedless lyrics, 'Out of my mind on Saturday night/ I feel alright, I feel alright', resounded, it felt mighty good in 2025, too – the most fun this writer has had in many months. After two hours onstage, Iggy toyed with the coffin door, and finally, during his familiar cover of the early rock'n'roll standard Real Wild Child (Wild One), he hopped inside, snaking out an arm to wave comically. He then jumped out and, to huge applause, gestured that he wasn't ready to accept that fate any time soon.
