David Bowie and Iggy Pop had a close working relationship and friendship. Bowie is known to have played a key role in Iggy Pop’s solo career, producing and co-writing his first two solo albums, “The Idiot” and “Lust for Life”.
Bowie also played keyboards and sang backup on the albums, and the two musicians went on tour together in 1977 in support of the albums.
Was David Bowie part of Iggy Pop?
He had a long collaborative relationship and friendship with David Bowie over the course of his career, beginning with the Stooges’ album Raw Power in 1973.
Both musicians went to West Berlin to wean themselves off their respective drug addictions and Pop began his solo career by collaborating with Bowie on the 1977 albums The Idiot and Lust for Life, Pop usually contributing the lyrics.
Throughout his career, he is well known for his outrageous and unpredictable stage antics, poetic lyrics and distinctive voice.
He was one of the first performers to do a stage-dive and popularized the activity.
Pop, who traditionally (but not exclusively) performs bare-chested, also performed such stage theatrics as rolling around in broken glass and exposing himself to the crowd.
