Lust For Life - Iggy Pop (1977)

Three months in 1977: Looking through some releases from 1977 to write up, i noticed a fun fact: quite a number of gigantic, world-renowned pop and rock records of this era all dropped in a 3 month timeframe from September to November of 1977. I thought it would be interesting to point some of these out. The date wiki has for this is sept 9, so we’ll start here.

Iggy Pop is iconic. He just does whatever he wants. He’s much more erudite and refined than people give him credit for, but also he often performs Stooges songs shirtless and flailing around the stage so people don’t notice that he also does things like cover classic songs in French

There’s an excellent 10 hour tv series to be made out of this whole story.

Pop was trying to get clean in the late 70s, as was his friend David Bowie (who will appear by himself in this very feature in a couple days). They both landed in West Berlin to live a life of more creativity and less drugs and bullshit. Bowie created some of his finest work in this era, the so-called “Berlin trilogy”, but also spent time producing the first two Iggy Pop solo records.

This was the second, and the one that has more of Pop’s fingerprints on it than Bowie’s.