The Stooges song "I Wanna Be Your Dog" pioneered punk rock, and it all began with Iggy Pop's big idea turned around.

Yelgrun, perhaps surprisingly, is played by Iggy Pop, the famed punk rocker and ... Pop had played the randy Belvedere Ricketts in John Waters' "Cry-Baby," a criminal named Rat Face in "Tank ...

Registered under the name James Newell Osterberg Jr at his hometown's Civil Registry, the man who never recorded even a single truly pop chorus ... (three times), for John Waters, or Tim Pope.