5. Iggy Pop
Long before he sold out to the man and became a literal puppet for a car insurance company, Stooges leader, Iggy Pop, was one of the most intense, unpredictable and unique front men of all time. His wild onstage antics varied from hurling his sweaty semi-naked body into an adoring crowd (inventing 'stage-diving in the process) and cutting himself with glass to proudly exposing his manhood. As a member of The Stooges, he bridged the gap between the 60s counter-culture and the flowering punk scene, borrowing his enchanting stage craft from Jim Morrison but ramping up the sexuality and self-destructive propensities of the Doors front man several notches and applying guttural vocals to raw, filth-ridden and ennui-laden lyrical subject matter. Baring the hardly-catchy or memorable birth name, James Osterberg, his more distinctive alter ego, Iggy Pop, was a marriage of two separate identities. Forever in and out of crude high school garage bands, Osterberg had a brief spell as the drummer for the Iguanas and eventually adopted a shortened version of the bands name as part of his new identity. The origin of 'Pop', however, is far less rock and roll. Inspired by a close friend, Jimmy Pop, who suddenly lost his hair and eyebrows; Iggy shaved his own as a mark of solidarity and subsequently took the surname to complete the persona. Pretty boring, huh? That sort of behaviour might seem outrageous on a lads night out but it barely registers on the Iggy Scale of provocative and ludicrous behaviour. This is a man who regularly vomited in front of a live crowd and played on, for crying out loud!