![]() ![]() It has never been specified what tracks on the album, if any, originated during the sessions of Bowie's 1984 album Tonight (that album's co-producer, Hugh Padgham, has recalled that Bowie and Pop collaborated on some songs that Bowie ultimately rejected for inclusion on Tonight). Bowie biographer David Buckley has reported that Pop "virtually disowned" the record, calling it "a Bowie album in all but name". The remaining tracks were co-written by Bowie, who also produced the album with David Richards but, unlike his previous work with Pop, The Idiot and Lust for Life (both 1977), did not play any instruments, although he did contribute with backing vocals. The collection included a cover of Johnny O'Keefe's " Wild One" (here titled "Real Wild Child (Wild One)" and three original songs co-written with ex- Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones. A successful tour followed the album's release. Blah-Blah-Blah appeared after a four-year hiatus for Pop, with David Bowie serving as his prime collaborator. Originally released in October 1986, on the label A&M, it remains his most commercially successful album to date. ![]() The way l could play in a band was that l had to play my own music because I couldn’t play anyone else’s: I wasn’t good enough.Blah-Blah-Blah is the seventh studio album by American musician Iggy Pop. “And… y’know, what can I say? I don’t even play like that anymore, number one, and, number two, what I ever did, the only thing I ever dld was just because I was a kid and could hardly play guitar at all. “I couldn’t believe it when I first started hearing that, but now I turn on the radio to some stations where they play this stuff, and I hear these guys are…I mean it might as well be ME playing! “I think it’s as funny as hell,” he laughed in a Sounds feature. Everybody has a shadow and I like to project a big one.”īy 1978, he was reflecting on the massive influence that the Stooges had on the punk and new wave scene. I’m greedy, crooked and vain, and I like to profile. “I’ve always been lucky,” he said in that Melody Maker interview. ![]() That lust is still what makes Iggy tick today. As a solo artist on album, Pop rose up in 1977 with the one-two attack of the albums The Idiot and Lust For Life, just five months apart. With the group, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. Here, undoubtedly and unavoidably, was a stage persona that made him one of the quintessential wild men of rock. With the groundbreaking Stooges, on disc from 1969, Iggy was a hugely magnetic and influential focal point. But as rock’n’roll began to mutate into a more flamboyant and libidinous rock format, the man by now known as Iggy Pop took inspiration from the Morrisons and the Jaggers, and developed his own unique personality on stage and record. That was his first instrument in his early local bands. It’s fair to say that as one of the quintessential frontmen and figureheads in rock music history, he’s done ok for a drummer. Osterberg was born in Muskegon, on the shores of Lake Michigan. And in 2016, Post Pop Depression became his highest-charting in the US, and his first Top 10 set in the UK. Lonnie Smith on covers of “Why Can’t We Live Together” and “Sunshine Superman.” Earlier, he was in Terence Malick’s 2017 experimental romantic drama Song To Song, also starring Ryan Gosling and Natalie Portman. In 2021, he popped up (pun intended) in his latest unexpected setting, guesting with Dr. ![]() “All the while,” wrote Rolling Stone of it, “Pop flexes his baritone, expressing himself more clearly than perhaps ever before.” He released his 18th studio album Free in September 2019. Iggy Pop, born James Osterberg on April 21, 1947, continues to push the boundaries and challenge himself and the rest of us. “Lock Up Your Daughters, Iggy’s Here,” ran a Melody Maker headline in 1972. ![]()
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