Bowie in Berlin by Thomas Jerome Seabrook

Author:Thomas Jerome Seabrook
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jawbone Press
Published: 2010-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

IGGY POP: LUST FOR LIFE

Produced by The Bewlay Bros. Recorded by David Bowie. Engineered by Eduard Meyer and Colin Thurston. Recorded and mixed at Hansa Tonstudio 2, Berlin, Germany (May-June 1977).

LUST FOR LIFE 5:12 (Pop/Bowie)

Iggy Pop: vocals; David Bowie: piano, backing vocals;

Carlos Alomar: guitar; Ricky Gardiner: guitar;

Tony Sales: bass, backing vocals; Hunt Sales: drums, backing vocals.

■ Among the most famous rock’n’roll songs to have been written on a ukulele, ‘Lust For Life’ is probably Iggy Pop’s best known song, having taken on a new lease of life, almost 20 years after its release, when it was used in the cult classic movie Trainspotting. Bowie was reportedly inspired to write the tune after hearing a Morse code-like theme to a US Armed Forces Network news bulletin; he and the Sales brothers then turned it into an irresistible rock’n’roll stomp that recalls, from a rhythmic perspective, The Supremes’ 1966 hit ‘You Can’t Hurry Love’.

Lyrically, however, ‘Lust For Life’ is pure Iggy, a five-minute barrage of warped boasts and truisms, many of them made up, on the spot, as he sang. The song is, in part, a rather hopeful dismissal of his and Bowie’s old ways - “No more beating my brains with liquor and drugs” - supported (or perhaps refuted) by crazed ramblings about stripteases, torture films, and government loans. Most memorably, Iggy confirms himself to be a “modern guy” because, of course, “he’s had it in the ear”. Bowie and the Saleses then chime in with breezy backing vocals in the chorus.

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