Happy 55th Anniversary to The Stooges’ eponymous debut album The Stooges, originally released August 5, 1969. In 1965, Jim Osterberg developed an alter ego called “Hyacinth,” based on a poem he’d written about a flower. The Ann Arbor High School senior would stretch out his arms, bend as if towards the sun, and then shake as if stirred by a breeze. Later that year, he’d even end up engaging Hyacinth in his role as emcee in the high-school talent show-shimmying and skipping across the stage in hypnotic embodiment of the flower. His classmates would remember the performance and regard it as an early incarnation of his eventually much more famous alter ego Iggy Pop.