Through much of the 1970s and '80s, Pop explored a variety of musical avenues for his iconoclastic world view, but found a successful middle ground between the expressive and the commercially viable with 1990's Brick by Brick, which even produced a hit single, "Candy" (a duet with Kate Pierson of the B-52's). After the original collapse of the Stooges, Pop launched a career on his own that was every bit as uncompromising and significantly more diverse, and his first two solo albums, produced by David Bowie (1977's The Idiot and Lust for Life) helped blaze a trail for post-punk. There are few bands in punk (or any sort of left-of-center hard rock) that didn't draw influence from the three studio albums the Stooges released between 19 (especially 1970's Fun House and 1973's Raw Power). Often called the Godfather of Punk, Iggy Pop created a Dionysian performance style and a variety of street-smart primitivism that made him one of rock's most influential figures when he co-founded the Stooges in 1967.