Veteran rocker Iggy Pop has been blasted after using a racist term during a live interview with the BBC. The Lust For Life star - real name James Newell Osterberg Jr - was being interviewed at England's Glastonbury Festival last weekend (22-24Jun07) when he recalled visiting "p**i shops".A spokesperson for the Commission for Racial Equality says, "It is a phrase that educated, sensible people would not use. It is not nice and it is not pleasant."The singer left the festival shortly after the interview to catch a flight to Warsaw, Poland - while the BBC issued an apology, saying, "We would like to apologise if anyone was offended."The four letter word is a disparaging term for a person of Pakistani descent.The slur was made in an interview with Jo Whiley and Mark Radcliffe both of whom failed to make an apology on air prompting three complaints from viewers.Iggy Pop's performance with The Stooges at Glastonbury caused mayhem when 200 fans stormed the stage.

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