JASON Pierce is exhausted.

On the eve of his 65th birthday, Iggy Pop can look back with pride on surviving his career in rock’n’roll, says Ian Forde

The 'Here Comes Your Man' band – who split in 1993 and reunited in 2004 for a series of concerts and have been playing live ever since - frequently forgot sections of their songs when they first got back together.

Morrissey has been announced as headliner of this year's Hop Farm Festival in the UK.

Iggy Pop is giving Christmas classics a punk rock makeover - he is planning to release a record of holiday tunes.

Hellraiser Iggy Pop is deserting his rock roots to record an album of jazz songs.

Amy Winehouse, Arcade Fire and The Good, the Bad and the Queen were among the winners at the Mojo Awards in London last night.

The White Stripes star Jack White is still looking for answers as to why Iggy Pop shunned his efforts to produce The Stooges reunion album last year.

U2 have been named the Greatest Live Band currently performing, in a new US poll.

Iggy Pop has reformed The Stooges and is working on the group's first album since 1973.

Punk rocker Iggy Pop is taking a hiatus from his solo career to focus on his old band The Stooges.

Veteran rocker Iggy Pop has no intention of hiding his famously lithe torso as he heads towards 60, and still wears nothing more than a pair of shorts when he goes out.

Rockers U2 and the Pretenders will join soul greats Percy Sledge and the O'Jays and blues legend Buddy Guy as the 2005 inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

ALL roads lead to Slane this weekend as Her Madgesty - aka Madonna - is set to become Queen of the Castle.

The Strokes warmed up for the forthcoming V Festival with a storming performance at New York's Little Steven's International Underground Garage Festival on Saturday.

Swedish rockers The Hives have revealed that one of their biggest influences is German dance band Kraftwerk.

Pixies are to reunite for the Coachella festival in the US where they will top the bill with Radiohead and Kraftwerk.