Iggy Pop blasted for race outburst

Veteran rocker Iggy Pop has been blasted after using a racist term during a live interview with the BBC.

The Lust For Life star - real name James Newell Osterberg Jr - was being interviewed at England's Glastonbury Festival last weekend when he recalled visiting "p**I shops".

A spokesperson for the Commission for Racial Equality says: "It is a phrase that educated, sensible people would not use. It is not nice and it is not pleasant."

The singer left the festival shortly after the interview to catch a flight to Warsaw, Poland - while the BBC issued an apology, saying: "We would like to apologise if anyone was offended."

The four letter word is a disparaging term for a person of Pakistani descent.