Given his penchant for gruesome stunts and wild antics, it’s a wonder that Iggy Pop has survived this long. Based on these facts, we're amazed he even made it out of the 70s.

Janis Joplin made Kris Kristofferson's "Me and Bobby McGee" a number-one hit, but he never got over Joplin's death.

There was a magical stretch of time when artists realized music videos didn’t actually need to make sense. They just needed to leave viewers staring at the screen wondering whether they’d accidentally swallowed expired cough syrup. From nightmare-fueled CGI disasters to avant-garde fever dreams that looked assembled inside a haunted computer lab, these music videos turned confusion into an art form.