Again the hold the album exerted on other bands suggested that Iggy doesn’t have peers, he has acolytes. Bowie provided the title track’s urgent stop-start riffs, while Mr Pop looked into his own dark soul to pen ‘Turn Blue’, the confessional ‘Some Weird Sin’ and the affecting ‘Fall In Love With Me’ which revealed a side to him hitherto not deemed possible to locate. New guitarist Ricky Gardiner composed the haunting, cinematic ‘The Passenger’, which Iggy set to lyrics inspired by a Jim Morrison poem. The fast recording process (Bowie notoriously hates overdubbing and unnecessary takes) gave LFL a spontaneously combusting live feel. American rock movement of the ’80s.Ĭontinuing the theme Iggy returned to the Hansa Studio by the Wall, Berlin to record Lust For Life, another five-star extravaganza. The Idiot was a huge influence on forthcoming acts like Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Depeche Mode and the alt. ‘China Girl’, ‘Dum Dum Boys’ and the monumental rock of ‘Mass Production’ were no slouches either and the resulting album became Ig’s first major chart entry in the UK and America. Every track here is a winner, starting with ‘Sister Midnight’, the strutting ‘Nightclubbing’ and throwback ‘Funtime’, it’s amazing to count the notches of excellence. Using champion players like Carlos Alomar on guitar and the rhythm section of Dennis Davis and George Murray, the songs also had a hard soulful funk edge. Recording in Paris, Munich and Berlin, Iggy and Bowie worked up a futuristic sound without relying too heavily on synthesisers and electronica, rather adapting those elements sparsely and lashing them to Ig’s trademark hard rock. After touring with Bowie on his Station to Station tour, Iggy Pop, as he now was, adopted a similar template for The Idiot (1977) which is widely regarded as the kick-start for Bowie’s own Berlin period. Relatively cleaned up and always spectacularly fit, he proceeded to attend to a sequence of superb albums. After reuniting The Stooges, no small achievement considering the various member’s personal habits, Iggy got, as they say, his act together. The Stooges had notoriety rather than sales but in 1971 Iggy hooked up with David Bowie who brought him to London to make the classic Raw Power and play his debut English date at the King’s Cross Scala – those who were lucky enough to be there (including yours truly) cite this show as one of the most riveting rock concerts ever. Ever willing to push the boundaries back and smash down the walls his tenure in the mighty Stooges ran from the psychedelic sixties to the beginning of the glam seventies, both eras reflecting in his music.
When the less family-friendly groups rolled into town, the MC5, Doors and Sonics, Jimmy would be stage front, sucking up the energy. He is a one-of-a-kind artist.īorn in suburban Michigan in 1947 the young Osterberg began his musical career as a drummer in various Ann Arbor bands, including The Iguanas (from whence his stage name) and at first, he immersed himself in traditional urban blues, inspired by Paul Butterfield’s skins man Sam Lay. If he plays a role then he’s perfect for the part he created. You’re just as likely to find him hunkered down with a copy of Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as you are trashing a backline of amplifiers.
For all his street credibility and flamboyant image Iggy is no fool. Inducted with The Stooges into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010 he has managed to parlay a uniquely anarchic stance into something that flirts with mainstream acceptance but is never diluted by compromise.
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He made truly seminal albums with The Stooges for Elektra Records before embarking on a long and brilliant solo career that has given us such epics as Lust For Life, The Idiotand TV Eye and chart success with ‘Nightclubbing’, ‘China Girl’ and ‘The Passenger’. Outrage, theatricality and the sensual side of performance informed his own act from year zero. An innovator with origins in garage punk bands, he saw the light at an early Doors concert where his hero Jim Morrison’s stage antics sparked the idea that he could do follow suit. James Jewel Osterberg, aka as Iggy Pop, Iggy Stooge or The Ig, is one of American rock’s greatest characters.
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