Along with the dispatching of Mick Ronson and the soon-to-come excommunication of Carlos Alomar, it’s one of the saddest moments in Bowie’s career, the sudden close of a brotherly era. Pop and Bowie would never make another record together, would never again collaborate on songs. I didn’t even hear The Idiot or Lust For Life until Virgin reissued them on CD in 1990. In fact, that reminds me that I was seventeen at the time of Blah, and although I was certainly aware of the name Iggy Pop, really it was this album that served as my main introduction to the man. After the nadir of Never Let Me Down - Bowie’s hammy overlong sequel of sorts to the album he’d just made with Iggy - there were no more James Osterberg writing credits on a Bowie album, yet before that the Ig’s legal name was on four albums in a row if you count Blah-Blah-Blah.īlah marked a turn in Iggy Pop’s career, going from cult figure to telly regular and everybody’s favourite godfather of punk, but it’s also the end of a partnership that had begun in 1971, when Bowie first met Pop at Max’s Kansas City in New York, and which had created Iggy’s Raw Power, The Idiot, and Lust For Life, the later two Bowie-helmed masterpieces from 1977 finally set to receive long overdue super deluxe treatments later this year. His sobriety had given him a clearer head, and he now had a taste, at last, of commercial success, which bred in him a desire to succeed “on his own” and not as David Bowie’s occasional reclamation project. From the Album Iggy Pop - Universal Masters Collection. Part of it was related to a film project they didn’t see eye to eye on, but also The Ig must have intimated to The Dame to quit trying to help. Check out Real Wild Child (Wild One) by Iggy Pop on Amazon Music. It is track 1 from the album Blah-Blah-Blah that was released in 1986. Not only did the miscreant from Michigan still have that Lust For Life but he was set up for life.īut around 1987 the relationship cooled. Real Wild Child (Wild One) is a song by Iggy Pop. Unfortunately, I think Jim took it personally, and that’s a shame because I would have liked to remain closer to him.”ĭavid Bowie interview with, 1999īowie’s success with his own version of China Girl six years after Iggy’s ostensibly provided the older man with his Pop pension fund. I completely understand-I really, really do. I’ve never talked to him about this and I probably shouldn’t talk to you about it… I think there was a moment where Jim decided that he couldn’t do a fucking article without my name being mentioned, and I don’t think that’s a very comfortable feeling. “We have drifted away from each other, and in a way I understand why.
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