The Stooges provided the highlight on a night which also saw ABBA, Jimmy Cliff, Genesis and the Hollies inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Introducing Stooges, Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day described Iggy as “the most confrontational singer we will ever see”, read chunks from the seminal punk history text Please Kill Me and rattled off a list of bands influenced by the Stooges including Bad Brains, Blondie, The Buzzcocks, The Clash, Devo, Guns and Roses, Rancid, Libertines, Pearl Jam, The Strokes, The Ramones, Gogol Bordello, The White Stripes and many, many more.

The leathery Iggy accepted the award, muttering “this thing is… heavy” before shouting “well, roll over, Woodstock!” and saluting the crowd in the usually sophisticated Waldorf-Astoria ballroom with both middle fingers.

Iggy and his fellow Stooges – Scott Asheton and James Williamson – then capped off their night by performing Search and Destroy and I Wanna Be Your Dog with Armstrong and Eddie Vedder, while goading the crowd “come on, you’re not too rich to be cool!”.

Inductees usually donate some memorabilia for display in the Hall of Fame’s museum, but Iggy explained backstage that he just “told them where to buy all the stuff I sold for drugs in the ’70s.”

Watch Billie Joe Armstrong’s speech and The Stooges performance: