Godfather Of Punk Iggy Pop To Play Romania At B'estfest In July

After more than 40 years on the world’s biggest stages and after creating mass hysteria among fans at festivals such as Glastonbury or Reading Leeds when he invited them up on state, “Godfather of Punk” Iggy Pop will play Bucharest during the 2009 B'estfest festival.

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Iggy and the Stooges will be among the headliners of the third annual edition of the festival to take place on July 2-5 in Bucharest.

Other confirmed headliners include Motorhead and Manowar.

James Newell Osterberg Jr., born April 21, 1947, better known by his stage name Iggy Pop, is an American rock singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. Although he has had only limited mainstream success, Iggy Pop is considered an innovator of punk rock, garage rock, and other related styles. He is sometimes referred to by the nicknames "the Godfather of Punk" and "the Rock Iguana", and is widely acknowledged as one of the most dynamic stage performers of all time.

Pop began calling himself Iggy after his first band in high school, The Iguanas, and was the lead singer of The Stooges, a late 1960s/early 1970s garage rock band who were influential in the development of the nascent heavy metal and punk rock genres.

Pop's popularity has ebbed and flowed throughout the course of his subsequent solo career. His best-known solo songs include "Lust for Life", "I'm Bored", "Real Wild Child", the Top 40 hit "Candy" (with vocalist Kate Pierson of The B-52's) and "The Passenger". A film about Iggy Pop's life and career titled The Passenger is currently in development.

This year’s B'estfest had an impressive line-up of artists such as Alanis Morissette, Cypress Hill, UNKLE, Kaiser Chiefs, Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics, Nouvelle Vague, Nelly Furtado, Manu Chao, Roisin Murphy, Sunrise Avenue, Judas Priest, Primal Fear and Ross The Boss.

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