With members of Bowie’s backing band behind him, including guitarist Carlos Alomar, and the distinctive rhythmic engine room of Tony and Hunt Sales on bass and drums respectively (who would much later join Bowie’s Tin Machine project), the sound they created was much closer to the garage-bound proto-punk of The Stooges than the noir-ish industrial sounds of The Idiot. ![]() Entering the famous Hansa Studio in Berlin, where the two had set up residence the previous year and in which Bowie would soon record his own “Heroes”, the record was written, recorded and mixed in an intense eight-day period. Having completed a brief tour of The Idiot in April, Iggy and Bowie determined they should strike while the iron was hot and get recording its successor immediately, and do so quickly in the name of spontaneity. Similarly, Lust For Life was Iggy’s album, from the ground upwards. Bowie was behind the production desk once more, but Lust For Life was much more like Lou Reed’s 1972 album Transformer – both in terms of the same kind of artistic rehabilitation of a forgotten underground icon, and of the commercial exposure it enjoyed in the mainstream – where Bowie was more of a sounding board in bringing his colleague’s vision to life. If The Idiot really was, for the sake of argument, merely a Bowie album in disguise, this was most definitively not. While there’s some truth to this, it’s rather unfair on Iggy’s contributions, and in any case, those same critics would shut their mouths when his second solo album Lust For Life was released less than six months later. ![]() READ MORE: David Bowie // ‘Low’ at 40 years old The Idiot was a superb exercise in personal redemption and musical reinvention, leading to critical reappraisal, but many felt it was too influenced by Bowie’s oeuvre, given what he himself was to release in 1977 with Lowand “Heroes”, with not enough of Iggy’s personality stamped on it. With Bowie at the production controls, Iggy embraced a decidedly different sound from the riotous, grungy proto-punk of his Stooges past, exuding introspection and self-doubt while setting his compositions to discordant, fragmented and cerebral music. ![]() Down and out and virtually forgotten just a few years before, it was his close friendship with David Bowie that led to his personal and artistic rehabilitation throughout 1976, culminating in the recording of Iggy’s debut solo album The Idiot, released in early 1977. Influenced by: The Velvet Underground, MC5, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Thirteenth Floor Elevators, David Bowie, New York DollsĪs well as being the year that punk broke, 1977 was also the year that made a genuine star out of Iggy Pop – an individual who, along with his band The Stooges, had done as much as anybody else to lay down the basic musical blueprint of punk in the first place with cult classic albums like Funhouseand Raw Power. Influenced: Joy Division, Blondie, Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, Nirvana, The Dandy Warhols, Ash, Queens Of The Stone Age, The Strokes, The Libertines, Jet, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kasabian, Cabbage
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