![]() ![]() What in the World – (Bowie) Underrated track off Bowie’s Low album released January 1977, features Iggy prominently on backing vocals.ģ. Earlier, Bowie had included this song on his 1976 tour set list.Ģ. Opening track off Iggy’s 1977 solo debut comeback album The Idiot. Sister Midnight – (Bowie, Pop, Alomar) Recorded in Château d’Hérouville, France, in July 1976. Their work together resonates up to this day, and would go on to influence music and artists on both sides of the Atlantic.ĭavid Bowie & Iggy Pop – 16 Collaborationsġ. Working together allowed Bowie to get darker in his songwriting, musicianship and production than he would in his solo work, and Iggy able to focus his self-destructive instincts into a mature and refined artistry. Together they served each other as perfect foils. “The friendship was basically that this guy salvaged me from certain professional and maybe personal annihilation – simple as that.”- Iggy Pop The third and final album was the live TV Eye (1978) which features recordings from some of these concerts namely, Cleveland, Chicago, and Kansas City. ![]() Bowie then accompanied Iggy on his triumphant US tour in 1977, playing keyboards alongside the Sales brothers rhythm section and guitarist Ricky Gardiner. The first was the avant-rock landmark The Idiot, recorded in France, followed by Lust for Life, written, recorded, and mixed at Hansa Studios in Berlin, where the artists were living at the time. Bowie famously stuck by Iggy at his lowest ebb in the mid-70s, The Thin White Duke inviting him along on his White Light Tour of 1976, before securing a three-record deal with RCA Records. ![]()
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