Iggy Pop's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

In the record

James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor who was the lead vocalist of the proto-punk band the Stooges. The birth-card coordinate for April 21 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2010 Performers with The Stooges induction.

Rock Hall record

• 2010 Performers — inducted member of The Stooges

The King of Clubs coordinate

Iggy Pop's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Iggy Pop. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.

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Iggy Pop in the public record

Regarded as the "Godfather of Punk", he is noted for his outrageous and unpredictable stage antics, poetic lyrics, and unique voice. He was named one of the 50 Great Voices by NPR, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Stooges in 2010, and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020 for his solo career. He had a long collaborative relationship and friendship with David Bowie over the course of his career, beginning with the Stooges' album Raw Power in 1973. Both musicians went to West Berlin to wean themselves off their respective drug addictions and Pop began his solo career by collaborating with Bowie on the 1977 albums The Idiot and Lust for Life, Pop usually contributing the lyrics. Initially playing a raw, primitive style of rock and roll (progressing later towards more experimental and aggressive rock), the Stooges sold few records in their original incarnation and gained a reputation for their confrontational performances, which sometimes involved acts of self-mutilation by Pop. He was one of the first performers to do a stage-dive and popularized the activity. Pop, who typically performs bare-chested, also performed such stage theatrics as rolling around in broken glass and exposing himself to the crowd. Though his popularity has fluctuated, many of Pop's songs have become well known, including "Search and Destroy" and "I Wanna Be Your Dog" by the Stooges, and his solo hits "Lust for Life", "The Passenger" and "Real Wild Child (Wild One)".

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Iggy Pop (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 4 of Hearts

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Iggy Pop, and not a forecast of induction.

Building reliable emotional foundations and trust

He had a long collaborative relationship and friendship with David Bowie over the course of his career, beginning with the Stooges' album Raw Power in 1973.

Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: relationship.

Also on the record

1. In 1990, he recorded his only Top 40 U.S. hit, "Candy", a duet with the B-52s' singer Kate Pierson.
2. Pop's song "China Girl" became more widely known when it was re-recorded by co-writer Bowie, who released it as the second single from his most commercially successful album, Let's Dance (1983).
3. Bowie re-recorded and performed many of Pop's songs throughout his career.
4. Although Pop has had limited commercial success, he has remained a cultural icon and a significant influence on a wide range of musicians in numerous genres.

Other inductees with this card

• Artimus Pyle — 2006 Performers with Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Dennis Stratton — 2026 Performers with Iron Maiden
• Dusty Hill — 2004 Performers with ZZ Top
• George Harrison — 1988 Performers with The Beatles; 2004 Performers
• Gillian Gilbert — 2026 Performers with Joy Division
• Gregg Rolie — 1998 Performers with Santana; 2017 Performers with Journey
• Ian Curtis — 2026 Performers with Joy Division
• Jackson Browne — 2004 Performers
• Janick Gers — 2026 Performers with Iron Maiden
• Joey Ambrose — 2012 Performers with The Comets
• Joey Ramone — 2002 Performers with Ramones
• John Entwistle — 1990 Performers with The Who
• 14 more inductees share this card.

FAQ

What is Iggy Pop's birth card?

The King of Clubs. April 21 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Iggy Pop's dates come from?

Birth date 1947-04-21 is the day-precision date on Iggy Pop's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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