Towards the end of 1976, the two creative soulmates would journey to West Berlin together, where both struggled to get clean while producing a prolific amount of music. The friendship was basically that this guy salvaged me from certain professional and maybe personal annihilation – simple as that.” “And I see him as one of the only representatives of the enfranchised world that understands me or that I can stand.” Following Bowie’s death in 2016, Pop would comment on their relationship by saying, “He resurrected me. Probably an American beatnik who survived, Kerouac thirty years later,” Pop would say of Bowie in 1987. In 1976, after Pop checked himself into a UCLA mental hospital following the Stooges’ breakup, Bowie visited him and invited him on tour. While producing The Stooges Raw Power (1973), Bowie found a kindred spirit in lead singer, Iggy Pop. Aspianist and collaborator Mike Garson told Bowie biographer Paul Trynka in Starman: The Definitive Biography: “I tell people Bowie is the best producer I ever worked with because he let me do my thing.” From Tony Visconti to Carlos Alomar to Robert Fripp to Trent Reznor to Arcade Fire, the Thin White Duke kept a diplomatic court throughout his reign. Every key stage of Bowie’s genre-bending career can be credited to a creative partnership that informed and enhanced his musical prowess: the glam-rock sleaze chiming out of Mick Ronson’s Les Paul during the Ziggy Stardust-era the esoteric, synthesized alchemy of Brian Eno during the Berlin period the pop sheen and clean-channel funk of Nile Rodgers during Bowie’s mid-eighties commercial tenure via Let’s Dance the ominous, dark-tinted jazz of Donny McCaslin’s ensemble that would close out Bowie’s discography on Black Star. Whether he was working with John Lennon on “Fame” or Queen on “Under Pressure” (or lending himself to unlikely Christmas duets with Bing Crosby or dancing around darkened alleyways with Mick Jagger), Bowie was well known for being collaborative with his own material, as well as working on others. The most seminal of Pop’s creative partners was David Bowie, no stranger to collaboration himself. From Josh Homme to Ryuichi Sakamoto, New Order to Ke$ha, Simple Minds to Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse, Iggy Pop has continued to evolve and stay relevant within the zeitgeist throughout decades of musical alliances that have spawned some of his most revered music. The same year, Pop would work with Debbie Harry from Blondie on, “Well, Did You Evah?” for the AIDS benefit compilation Red Hot & Blue. In 1990, Pop teamed up with Kate Pierson from The B-52’s for his biggest commercial hit, “Candy,” the first and only time he would reach the Top 40 charts in the U.S. Throughout his illustrious career as rock ’n roll’s feral poster-boy, Pop has teamed up with a variety of bands and artists from across the musical spectrum, ranging from acts such as Green Day to Peaches. Shore for an absolutely insane interview, one in which Iggy happily chatted with Dinah about scoring dope in New York City.Iggy Pop has never been a stranger to collaboration. Iggy performed two songs – “Sister Midnight” and “Fun” – and then sat down with Ms. They collaborated on an album, and here’s the result of that creative effort.” We’ll discuss that with him, And he’s collaborated with another innovator, perhaps the most famous of today’s new musical talent, David Bowie. “Now, that doesn’t sound like I’m being nice, but that is really what it’s called, and he likes that. “Iggy Pop is considered to be the originator of what is called punk rock today,” said Shore, offering up a sedate introduction that provided little hint of what was to come. and then into the U.S., Iggy, Bowie, and company eventually made their way to California, where they popped up on Dinah! Iggy would be preening himself before he went on and I’d be sitting there reading a book.”Īfter touring in the U.K. The drug use was unbelievable and I knew it was killing me, so that was a difficult side of it. I was trying to get away from those drugs and I was going through these really ambivalent things because I kept wanting to leave the tour to get off drugs. But there were too many drugs around at the time. “It was great not having the pressure of being the singer up front. “It was the first time I’d ever really put myself into a band since The Spiders,” Bowie said in a 1993 interview. To put things in perspective, this was when Iggy was in the midst of touring in support of his solo debut The Idiot, a jaunt which featured a band that included three future members of Tin Machine: Tony Sales on bass, Hunt Sales on drums, and on keyboards and backing vocals, the one and only David Bowie.
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