“He came to my parents’ trailer, and the neighbors were so frightened of the car and the bodyguard they called the police,” Mr. Pop’s parents in Detroit, where they were living in a trailer. And every once in a while, now at least, I’m a little less rustic when I have to deal with those people.” I met the Beatles and the Stones, and this one and that one, and this actress and this actor and all these powerful people through him. “I learned things that I still use today. “But he also knew I’m a hick from the sticks at heart.”īy contrast, Mr. Bowie “saw me sometimes, when he wanted to voice it that way, as a modern Beat or a modern Dostoyevsky character or a modern van Gogh,” Mr.
Pop recalled, “He wrote the progression on ukulele, and he said, ‘Call it “Lust for Life,” write something up.’” Pop said, went “beep beep beep, beep beep beep beep, beep beep beep,” the rhythm, which is also like a Motown beat, that was the foundation for “Lust for Life.” Mr. Bowie, seated on the floor - they had decided chairs were not natural - were waiting for the Armed Forces Network telecast of “Starsky & Hutch.” The network started shows with a call signal that, Mr. Pop’s next album, “Lust for Life,” germinated in that apartment. Bowie’s apartment there “over the auto parts store,” he said. I always tried to encourage his worst impulses in those directions. “I said, ‘But I can.’ And he smiled, and he realized this was a playground for him. “He said, ‘I can’t put out a record with that,’” Mr.
Bowie, was recorded with a cheap synthesizer and an early drum machine, the only equipment available after a recording session had been packed up. Pop’s “Nightclubbing,” a song on “The Idiot” that reflected postconcert club excursions across Europe with Mr. Pop from performing at the Meltdown festival in London that Mr. Pop to his new record label - he was under contract elsewhere - and schedule conflicts prevented Mr. He went a bit out of his way to bestow some good karma on me.” Pop reflected: “He was more of a benefactor than a friend in a way most people think of friendship. The singular wild boy became famous at the end of the sixties for. “A lot of people were curious about me, but only he was the one who had enough truly in common with me, and who actually really liked what I did and could get on board with it, and who also had decent enough intentions to help me out. Iggy Pop is one of those names that in the history of rock music count among the legends.
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“The friendship was basically that this guy salvaged me from certain professional and maybe personal annihilation - simple as that,” said Mr. Iggy Pop, whose solo recording career began with two albums produced by David Bowie, said in an interview this week that he had still not fully processed Mr.
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