Vindication arrived when the acutely named Post-Pop Depression – Iggy’s eighteenth studio album, and reputedly his last – became his highest-charting album in the US. But he got out alive, and what’s more, survived without Bowie’s assistance (albeit living on the royalties of his Bowie co-writes when Bowie recorded them too), through many compromised recordings, to reach a late-career summit of challenging and satisfying projects. James Osterberg, would ever outlive Bowie? Iggy the drug addict (next to Ig’s consumption, Bowie’s cocaine problem was a stroll in the park), the reckless stage performer when fronting The Stooges, self-harming on stage, and encouraging missiles to be chucked at him. Who would have ever thought that Iggy, a.k.a. When Iggy asked Josh Homme if he wanted to make a record with him, Iggy sent the Queens Of The Stone Age lynchpin the lyrics, plus copious notes about making those albums with Bowie. But Iggy’s set list that night was not just a tribute to a man who had played such an integral part in his career it was a recognition of their landmark collaboration circa 1977-78: The Idiot and Lust For Life albums, as well as a link to Post Pop Depression itself, Iggy’s attempt to recreate the kind of heightened relationship he once enjoyed with Bowie, in the same creative ballpark. Released on Record Store Day, the triple vinyl edition of Iggy Pop’s Post Pop Depression – Live at the Royal Albert Hall (and its CD/DVD counterpart) featured 13 songs co-written with David Bowie: over half the setlist that night in London, in May 2016.īowie had died, unexpectedly, four months earlier, leaving even close friends bewildered to the core.
An essential primer to the tempestuous career of arch nihilist Iggy Pop.
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