YEAR
2010
INDUCTED BY
Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day)
CATEGORY
Performers
The Stooges were punk before punk existed.
In a time when hippie idealism was popular, the Stooges threw down the gauntlet in the form of provocative, high-octane rock and roll.
James Williamson
Iggy Pop
Dave Alexander
Scott Asheton
Ron Asheton
HALL OF FAME
ESSAY
By Jaan Uhelski
Long before images of self-flagellation, peanut butter smearing, and bloodletting cemented a certain sensational, albeit one-dimensional, perception of them, the Stooges – Iggy Pop (ne James Osterberg), Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton, and Dave Alexander – were just four kids oozing boredom and frustration in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the genteel university town forty miles west of Detroit.
They couldn’t have known it, but the musical relief they sought and found would spark a time-delayed revolution in sound, style, and performance, making the Stooges one of the most influential groups in modern-rock history
