Stooges set to take their
place in rock hall of fame
tonight

BY BRIAN McCOLLUM
FREE PRESS POP MUSIC WRITER

You can stick another check mark on Detroit's
hall of fame list.

The Stooges will be inducted tonight into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the 17th Motor City
act to be graced with the honor since the
institution was launched in 1986.

Four decades after they crashed onto the
Detroit-Ann Arbor scene, Iggy Pop, Scott
Asheton and company will be coronated at the
Waldorf-Astoria in New York. The guys who
helped invent punk rock will be inducted by
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, alongside the
likes of ABBA, Genesis and the Hollies in one of
the most eclectic hall classes in memory.

They'll accept the honor on behalf of Stooges
guitarist Ron Asheton, who died last year. A
Stooges display will soon sit in the inductees
gallery at the hall's museum in Cleveland.

As is custom, the band is to perform a pair of
songs after its acceptance speech, and Iggy Pop
has said members will participate in the
traditional show-closing jam.