Iggy Pop’s Childhood Home

The Godfather of Punk grew up in a trailer. James Osterberg — not yet Iggy Pop — spent his childhood in the Coachville mobile-home community on the edge of Ann Arbor (his parents were both schoolteachers), and by his own telling the close quarters and working-class Michigan grit fueled the most unhinged frontman rock would ever produce.

As a teenager he drummed in local bands — one of them, the Iguanas, gave him the “Iggy” nickname — worked at a record store, and fell in with two brothers named Ron and Scott Asheton. Out of that came the Stooges, and out of the Stooges came punk rock, more or less. From a trailer on the edge of Ann Arbor to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Fair warning: this one’s a geographic outlier, west of the metro — but for a serious music fan it’s the literal starting line of “Search and Destroy.”