The beat resembles the keyboard/guitar riff of The Doors’ song ‘Touch Me’. Bowie first played it on a ukulele, and the beat was later interpreted in the studio by the drumbeat of the brilliant Hunt Sales, adding crashing cymbals.
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The catchy riff of the title track was inspired when, in Berlin, the Glammer Twins were listening to American Forces Network News, which had a Morse code call signal. This cheapens the magnificence of the song because it is the soundtrack of life – and especially of Iggy’s life.The song is also on the Trainspotting film soundtrack. Lust or Life was produced by Bowie, with Iggy Pop and engineer Colin Thurston, under the name ‘Bewlay Bros.’ (a song on Bowie’s Hunky Dory album).ĭespite the obvious fact that the song is about liquor, drugs and sex, the song has sound-tracked so many ad campaigns that it’s nearly impossible to mention them all. Bowie’s used this technique of immediacy on his next album, “ Heroes” released just two months later in October. Lust For Life was Iggy’s second solo album on RCA Records. The cover photo was by Andrew Kent, who had also shot the cover of The Idiot, and documented Bowie’s Station to Station tour in stunning black and white. Lust For Life also featured Ricky Gardiner and Carlos Alomar on guitar. (They would form the rhythm section of David Bowie’s future band Tin Machine). (Hence the Stooges anthem “no fun my babe no fun”.) Coincidentally, the Sales brothers (Soupy’s sons) Tony and Hunt appear on bass and drums. On the cover of Lust For Life, Iggy Pop comically resembles his lyrical mentor Soupy Sales, who encouraged kids to conserve the writing of their fan letters to just 25 words or less. The crooning cadaver who crawled out of the magnificent murkiness of The Idiot appears with a big goofy grin on the close-up cover portrait on his following album.
It was Iggy’s second solo post-Stooges album (his third collaboration with David Bowie – including Bowie’s infamous production of the Stooges’ Raw Power album in 1972).
How lucky are we?! Just one month after the release and live tour of The Idiot on Ma(with David Bowie anonymously on keyboards) recording began for Lust For Life at Hansa Studio by the Wall in West Berlin, in April. No part of this site may be reproduced or re-blogged in whole or in part in any manner without permission of the copyright owner.ġ977 brought us two Iggy albums within five months.
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