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Lust For Life (Album) by Iggy Pop

Artist Biography For Iggy Pop


Iggy Pop Born James Newell Osterberg Jr. April 21 1947 Is An American Singer Songwriter Musician And Actor. Though Widely Known As An Innovator And "godfather" Of Punk Rock Pop's Music Has Encompassed A Number Of Styles Over The Years Including Pop Hard Rock Jazz And Blues. Pop Became Known As 'Iggy' In High School During Which Time He Served As Drummer For Local Blues Band The Iguanas. He Is Vocalist Of Influential Proto-Punk Band The Stooges Pop And The Other Surviving Members Of The Group Reunited In 2003 Having Become Known Since The Late 1960s For His Outrageous And Unpredictable Stage Antics. Though His Popularity Has Fluctuated Through The Years Many Of Pop's Songs Have Become Well-Known Including "Lust For Life" "The Passenger" "Real Wild Child" "Candy" A Duet With Kate Pierson Of The B-52's "China Girl" "Nightclubbing" "Search And Destroy" And "I Wanna Be Your Dog". In 2010 The Stooges Were Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Pop Was The Lead Singer Of The Stooges A Late 1960s/early 1970s Band That Featured Brothers Ron And Scott Asheton And Dave Alexander And Was Highly Influential In The Development Of Hard Rock. The Debut Album Was Produced By The Velvet Underground's John Cale. The Band's "I Wanna Be Your Dog" Is A Garage Punk Standard. Raw Power Was First Released In1973 Perhaps The First Record That Could Truly Be Called Punk. It Was The Confluence Of The Stooges Ages Hormones Creativity Ability Experience Tastes Lack Of Supervision Contempt For Authority And Ambition That Has Made Raw Power One Of The Most Influential Albums Of All Time. The Stooges Were Infamous For Performances In Which Pop Leapt Off The Stage Hence The "stage Dive" Smeared Raw Meat Or Peanut Butter Over His Chest And Cut Himself With Broken Bottles. A Glimpse Of The Vibrating Intensity Of Iggy Live Can Be Seen In The Ramones Movie "End Of The Century." Guitarist James Williamson Became A Key Collaborator A Partnership Documented On The 1978 Album Kill City. In 25 Years As A Solo Artist Pop's Best-Known Songs Have Included The Thumping Lust For Life To Be Heard On The Soundtrack Of The Find-A-Vein Shoot-It-Up Movie Trainspotting I'm Bored And The Passenger The Latter Based On A Poem Written By Jim Morrison . David Bowie Played A Key Role In Reinvigorating Pop's Post-Stooges Career And Was A Collaborator On The Albums Lust For Life And The Idiot. Iggy May Be Under-Rated As A Songwriter. Bowie And Tina Turner Covered His "Tonight". Bowie Also Put Out His Own Version Of "China Girl " While Grace Jones Covered The Icey "Nightclubbing".

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Lust For Life Is The Second Solo Album By American Musician Iggy Pop Released On August 29 1977 By RCA Records. It Was His Second Collaboration With David Bowie After The Idiot Released Earlier In The Year. The Album Achieved Critical Acclaim And Became Pop's Most Commercially Successful Album To Date It Also Remains His Only Gold-Certified Release In The United Kingdom. The Lust For Life Sessions Took Place Soon After The Completion Of A Concert Tour In Support Of The Idiot The Tour Ending On 16 April 1977. Pop Has Stated "David And I Had Determined That We Would Record That Album Very Quickly Which We Wrote Recorded And Mixed In Eight Days And Because We Had Done It So Quickly We Had A Lot Of Money Left Over From The Advance Which We Split." The Singer Slept Little During Its Making Commenting "See Bowie's A Hell Of A Fast Guy ... I Realized I Had To Be Quicker Than Him Otherwise Whose Album Was It Gonna Be?" Pop Prepared Only Fragments Of Lyrics Before Singing And Essentially Improvised At The Microphone. This Spontaneous Lyrical Method Inspired Bowie To Improvise His Own Words On His Next Project "Heroes". Bowie Pop And Engineer Colin Thurston Produced Lust For Life Under The Pseudonym "Bewlay Bros." Named After The Final Track On Bowie's 1971 Album Hunky Dory. The Recording Was Made At Hansa Studio By The Wall In Berlin And Featured Ricky Gardiner And Carlos Alomar On Guitars With Hunt And Tony Sales On Drums And Bass Respectively. With Bowie On Keyboards And Backing Vocals The Team Included Three-Quarters Of The Future Tin Machine Line-Up The Sales Brothers' "gale-Force" Contribution To This Album Led Bowie To Invite Them To Join His New Band Twelve Years Later "Check Out Lust For Life " He Told Guitarist Reeves Gabrels "I've Found The Rhythm Section!" . The Sleeve Photo Was Taken By Andy Kent Who Also Shot The Cover For The Idiot. Lust For Life Is Generally Considered To Be More Of An Iggy Pop Record Than The Bowie-Dominated The Idiot Being Less Experimental And Having More Of A Rock And Roll Flavor. However Some Of Its Themes Were Similarly Dark As In "The Passenger" Cited By NME Editors Roy Carr And Charles Shaar Murray As One Of Pop's "most Haunting" Tracks And "Tonight" And "Turn Blue" Both Of Which Dealt With Heroin Abuse. In Contrast Were More Upbeat Songs Such As "Success" And "Lust For Life" The Latter Of Which Described By Rolling Stone As Pop's "survivor Message To The Masses". According To Pop Bowie's Celebrated Riff On "Lust For Life" Was Inspired By The Morse Code Opening To The American Forces Network News In Berlin. At Various Points In The Song The Melody Is Doubled By The Entire Band In Carlos Alomar's Words "You Can't Play A Counter-Rhythm To That You Just Had To Follow". Joy Division And New Order Drummer Stephen Morris Declared "On Lust For Life The Drums Sound Not Huge But Massive! The Loudest Cymbals Known To Man That Riff! I Wanted To Sound Like That Still Do." "The Passenger" Was Inspired By A Jim Morrison Poem That Saw "modern Life As A Journey By Car" As Well As Rides On The Berlin S-Bahn According To Pop's Former Girlfriend Esther Friedmann. The Lyrics Have Also Been Interpreted As "Iggy's Knowing Commentary On Bowie's Cultural Vampirism". The Music A "laid-Back ... Springy Groove" Was Composed By Guitarist Ricky Gardiner. It Was Released As The B-Side Of The Album's First Single "Success". Characterized By AllMusic As "a Glorious Throwaway" And By Rolling Stone As "an Infectious Throwaway" "Success" Was A Light-Hearted Track Of The Call And Response Variety. At Just Under Seven Minutes "Turn Blue" The Longest Song On The Album Was A Sprawling Confessional That Dated Back To An Abortive Recording Session By Bowie And Pop In May 1975 When The Latter Was In The Depths Of His Drug Addiction. Originally Titled "Moving On" It Was Composed By Bowie Pop Walter Lacey And Warren Peace. It Was The Only Set Of Lyrics That Did Not Appear On The Original Vinyl Record Sleeve. The Album's Remaining Tracks Included "Sixteen" The Only Piece Written Entirely By Iggy Pop "Some Weird Sin" A Hard Rock Number Featuring A "lost-Boy Lyric" The "neo-Punk" "Neighborhood Threat" And "Fall In Love With Me" Which Grew From An Impromptu Jam By The Band To Which Pop Composed Lyrics Apparently Evoking His Then-Girlfriend Esther Friedmann. Lust For Life Reached Number 28 On The UK Albums Chart Making It Pop's Second Highest-Performing Release In That Country After 2016's Post Pop Depression. Initially The Album Sold Well In The US But The Death Of Elvis Presley Caused RCA To Quickly Reissue Presley's Catalogue And Any Promotional Focus For Pop's Album Was Lost. It Eventually Performed Well In The United States Although It Only Reached Number 120 On The Billboard Charts At The Time Of Release. Rolling Stone's Contemporary Review Considered That "purely On Its Own Terms Lust For Life Is A Successful Album" But Complained That Pop's "new Stance Is So Utterly Unchallenging And Cautious". "Success" Backed With "The Passenger" Was Released As A Single From The Album On 30 September 1977. "Lust For Life" And "Sixteen" Appeared The Following Year On The Live Set TV Eye. Bowie Covered "Tonight" Minus The Opening Lines Referencing Drugs With Tina Turner Along With "Neighborhood Threat" On His 1984 Release Tonight. Siouxsie And The Banshees Recorded A Cover Of "The Passenger" With Brass Instruments On Their 1987 Album Through The Looking Glass. Pop Praised It Commmenting "she Threw A Little Note In When She Sings It That I Wish I Had Thought Of It's Kind Of Improved It The Horn Thing Is Good." "The Passenger" Has Also Been Performed By Nick Cave R.E.M. Bauhaus The Lunachicks Michael Hutchence On The Batman Forever Soundtrack Amongst Others Brazilian Band Capital Inicial Has Recorded A Version In Portuguese Which Is Called "O Passageiro" . Duran Duran Covered "Success" On The Favorites Collection Thank You. "Lust For Life" Has Been Played By Artists Including Yo La Tengo The Damned The Smithereens Tom Jones And The Pretenders And David Bowie Live And Is Used As Bumper Music On The Jim Rome Show It Is Also Used As The Theme Music For The Ongoing Advertising Campaign For Royal Caribbean International. Its Distinctive Riff Is Commonly Cited As Inspiring Australian Band Jet For Their Song "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" While The Drum Riff Was Sampled By Welsh Band Manic Street Preachers For The Outro Of Their Song "You Love Us" And By Scottish Band Travis For The Intro To Their Single "Selfish Jean". The Main Riff Was Interpolated Into The Break Section Of "What Is Happening" By Alphabeat.