#David bowie and iggy pop free

Despite his wondrous talent, the world doesn’t owe you anything, and if it wasn’t for Bowie, then Iggy could have become just another jaded and faded one-time-rockstar, playing for a free bar tab. The Starman didn’t just get his career back on track, but, most notably, his life and inserted a renewed lust for life in Iggy. Scheduling conflicts also prevented Iggy from taking part at the Meltdown Festival in London, which Bowie was curating.Īlthough their friendship sadly didn’t last the test of time, and their lives went down different avenues, there remains unshakeable respect and gratitude that Iggy holds for Bowie that will never leave him. They drifted after Bowie attempted to bring Iggy to his new record label, but his old-friend was under contract already somewhere else. The two men tragically lost touch after 2002. On the night of March 20, 1976, after performing at Community War Memorial Arena in Rochester, NY, Bowie retired to the Americana Rochester Hotel for a party with Iggy Pop and some new friends. I’d be playing somewhere, probably 42nd Street or something like that. It’s the album notorious for being recorded while Bowie was living in LA, fueled in large part by extreme cocaine psychosis. I think if he had not come along with that proposal, I’d probably not be talking to you now. So at the time, I could have put together a stock-rock band, something glam, something tasteless, but I didn’t want to do that.”Īdding: “It was really timely that he basically suggested two things, getting out of LA, which was great and making an album together, which was a good idea. “I’d been kind of stymied by the entire music business and a really disastrous manager in general, drug problems and drinking, general carousing.

Speaking to MTV News in 1990, Iggy Pop discussed his resurrection in more detail: “Well put it this way, before I made that record ( The Idiot), I was a street person in LA basically,” he said. The Stooges had called it a day, and his last record was in 1973 before Bowie came along to whisk him away to Berlin in 1976, which would lead to them recording two albums together that revived his artistry, making him a star in his own right. Iggy was struggling with heroin addiction before making a move to Berlin, but he was also in a blip creatively.

He went a bit out of his way to bestow some good karma on me.” “He was more of a benefactor than a friend in a way most people think of friendship.