I sure hope they didn’t spend it all on drugs…
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N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Fun fact, during this era Bowie worked with Iggy to make Iggy’s first solo album, which became a hit, with the iconic song “Passenger” and, lyrics largely improvised on the fly in the studio. They made the album in a little over a week, well under the time budgeted for, and split the leftover money the label had given them. Read about it here: https://norselandsrock.com/the-passenger-iggy-pop/
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 1 day ago
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You kidding? Those drugs created some of the greatest, most iconic music of all time, Hell, we should be thanking drugs
loutr@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
“See, I think drugs have done some good things for us, I really do. And if you don’t believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor - go home tonight and take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your CDs and burn ‘em. ‘Cause you know what? The musicians who’ve made all that great music that’s enhanced your lives throughout the years… real fucking high on drugs.”
Bill Hicks, as sampled on Third Eye by TOOL.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nah, such fine upstanding young men would never do that.
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Not quite accurate - they made Iggys first solo album, The Idiot, during this period, which is a fantastic album but a) basically just a Bowie album with Iggy doing all of the singing b) had no big hits. Bowie basically wrote that album and his own (Low) at the same time, but then decided touring with Iggy would be more fun, so he didn’t do a tour for Low and just started gigging with Iggy as his keyboard player.
During those live shows they came up with a bunch of ideas that they then whipped into Iggy’s second album, Lust for Life, with only a little only a week of studio time, and that second album became the biggest hit of Iggy’s career (because it turns out the computerized alien funk that Bowie made in a studio didn’t work great for Iggy, but putting him in front of a kickass rock band and just letting them burn the house down worked great).