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After the breakup of the Stooges and his admittance to a psychiatric hospital, Iggy Pop was blessed with a guardian angel like no other – David Bowie. The Thin White Duke took Iggy with him to Berlin as he embarked on what would become his Berlin trilogy (Low, Heroes and Lodger). It was during this European escapade which included a sojourn in the Château d’Hérouville 50 miles from Paris, that the Iguana produced two of his greatest solo albums, The Idiot and Lust for Life. In the cold decadence and schizophrenic madness of a city still separated in two by the Berlin wall, the two men were inspired by the latest sounds from Kraftwerk, Neu!, Can and all of the bands from the Krautrock scene. Together, Ziggy and Iggy wrote and directed this disturbing masterpiece named The Idiot (a reference to Dostoyevsky’s eponymous novel), which is full of cheap synths (like on the trance-inducing Nightclubbing), ominous bass lines and minimalist, abrasive and tortured guitars. Iggy even sounds like a drugged-up Sinatra on the track Tiny Girls. Possessing an urban edge, this angular and sinister masterpiece was a superb comeback for Iggy and sounded closer to Bowie’s music than anything the Stooges had produced. Following its release in March 1977, the album greatly influenced many new-wave bands for years to come. This May 2020 Deluxe edition not only includes the remastered original album but also Iggy’s effort to reach the same standard as the Stooges in a wild live performance recorded on March 7th, 1977 at the Rainbow Theatre in London, featuring Bowie on keyboards. © Marc Zisman/Qobuz
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Phil Palmer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Carlos Alomar, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - George Murray, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Dennis Davis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Iggy Pop, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Laurent Thibault, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Saxophone, Xylophone, Synthesizer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tony Visconti, Additional Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Michel Santangelli, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1977 Thousand Mile, Inc.
Phil Palmer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Carlos Alomar, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - George Murray, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Dennis Davis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Iggy Pop, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Laurent Thibault, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Saxophone, Xylophone, Synthesizer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tony Visconti, Additional Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Michel Santangelli, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1977 Thousand Mile, Inc.
Phil Palmer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Carlos Alomar, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - George Murray, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Dennis Davis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Iggy Pop, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Laurent Thibault, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Saxophone, Xylophone, Synthesizer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tony Visconti, Additional Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Michel Santangelli, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1977 Thousand Mile, Inc.
Phil Palmer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Carlos Alomar, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - George Murray, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Dennis Davis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Iggy Pop, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Laurent Thibault, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Saxophone, Xylophone, Synthesizer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tony Visconti, Additional Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Michel Santangelli, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1977 Thousand Mile, Inc.
Phil Palmer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Carlos Alomar, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - George Murray, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Dennis Davis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Iggy Pop, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - James Osterberg, ComposerLyricist - Laurent Thibault, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Saxophone, Xylophone, Synthesizer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tony Visconti, Additional Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Michel Santangelli, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1977 Thousand Mile, Inc.
Phil Palmer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Carlos Alomar, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - George Murray, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Dennis Davis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Iggy Pop, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Laurent Thibault, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Saxophone, Xylophone, Synthesizer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tony Visconti, Additional Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Michel Santangelli, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1977 Thousand Mile, Inc.
Phil Palmer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Carlos Alomar, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - George Murray, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Dennis Davis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Iggy Pop, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Laurent Thibault, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Saxophone, Xylophone, Synthesizer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tony Visconti, Additional Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Michel Santangelli, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1977 Thousand Mile, Inc.
Phil Palmer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Carlos Alomar, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - George Murray, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Dennis Davis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Iggy Pop, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Laurent Thibault, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Saxophone, Xylophone, Synthesizer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tony Visconti, Additional Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Michel Santangelli, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1977 Thousand Mile, Inc.
DISC 2
Iggy Pop, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - James Williamson, ComposerLyricist - David Skye, Producer
℗ 2020 Thousand Mile, Inc.
David Alexander, ComposerLyricist - Iggy Pop, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - RON ASHETON, ComposerLyricist - SCOTT ASHETON, ComposerLyricist - David Skye, Producer
℗ 2020 Thousand Mile, Inc.
David Alexander, ComposerLyricist - Iggy Pop, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - RON ASHETON, ComposerLyricist - SCOTT ASHETON, ComposerLyricist - David Skye, Producer
℗ 2020 Thousand Mile, Inc.
Iggy Pop, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - SCOTT ASHETON, ComposerLyricist - Ronald Asheton, ComposerLyricist - David Michael Alexander, ComposerLyricist - James Jr. Osterberg, ComposerLyricist - David Skye, Producer
℗ 2020 Thousand Mile, Inc.
Iggy Pop, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - David Bowie, ComposerLyricist - Walter Lacey, ComposerLyricist - Geoffrey Alexander MacCormack, ComposerLyricist - David Skye, Producer
℗ 2020 Thousand Mile, Inc.
Iggy Pop, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - David Bowie, ComposerLyricist - David Skye, Producer
℗ 2020 Thousand Mile, Inc.
Iggy Pop, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - James Robert Williamson, ComposerLyricist - David Skye, Producer
℗ 2020 Thousand Mile, Inc.
Iggy Pop, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - RON ASHETON, ComposerLyricist - SCOTT ASHETON, ComposerLyricist - James Osterberg Jr., ComposerLyricist - David Michael Alexander, ComposerLyricist - David Skye, Producer
℗ 2020 Thousand Mile, Inc.
Carlos Alomar, ComposerLyricist - Iggy Pop, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - David Bowie, ComposerLyricist - David Skye, Producer
℗ 2020 Thousand Mile, Inc.
Iggy Pop, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - James Williamson, ComposerLyricist - David Skye, Producer
℗ 2020 Thousand Mile, Inc.
Iggy Pop, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - James Robert Williamson, ComposerLyricist - David Skye, Producer
℗ 2020 Thousand Mile, Inc.
David Alexander, ComposerLyricist - Iggy Pop, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - RON ASHETON, ComposerLyricist - SCOTT ASHETON, ComposerLyricist - David Skye, Producer
℗ 2020 Thousand Mile, Inc.
Iggy Pop, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - David Bowie, ComposerLyricist - David Skye, Producer
℗ 2020 Thousand Mile, Inc.
Iggy Pop, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - David Bowie, ComposerLyricist - David Skye, Producer
℗ 2020 Thousand Mile, Inc.
Iggy Pop, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - David Bowie, ComposerLyricist - James Osterberg Jr., ComposerLyricist - David Skye, Producer
℗ 2020 Thousand Mile, Inc.
Album review
After the breakup of the Stooges and his admittance to a psychiatric hospital, Iggy Pop was blessed with a guardian angel like no other – David Bowie. The Thin White Duke took Iggy with him to Berlin as he embarked on what would become his Berlin trilogy (Low, Heroes and Lodger). It was during this European escapade which included a sojourn in the Château d’Hérouville 50 miles from Paris, that the Iguana produced two of his greatest solo albums, The Idiot and Lust for Life. In the cold decadence and schizophrenic madness of a city still separated in two by the Berlin wall, the two men were inspired by the latest sounds from Kraftwerk, Neu!, Can and all of the bands from the Krautrock scene. Together, Ziggy and Iggy wrote and directed this disturbing masterpiece named The Idiot (a reference to Dostoyevsky’s eponymous novel), which is full of cheap synths (like on the trance-inducing Nightclubbing), ominous bass lines and minimalist, abrasive and tortured guitars. Iggy even sounds like a drugged-up Sinatra on the track Tiny Girls. Possessing an urban edge, this angular and sinister masterpiece was a superb comeback for Iggy and sounded closer to Bowie’s music than anything the Stooges had produced. Following its release in March 1977, the album greatly influenced many new-wave bands for years to come. This May 2020 Deluxe edition not only includes the remastered original album but also Iggy’s effort to reach the same standard as the Stooges in a wild live performance recorded on March 7th, 1977 at the Rainbow Theatre in London, featuring Bowie on keyboards. © Marc Zisman/Qobuz
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 23 track(s)
- Total length: 01:43:46
- Main artists: Iggy Pop
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 2020 Universal Music Operations Limited ℗ 2020 Universal Music Operations Limited
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