Iggy Pop by Paul Trynka

Author:Paul Trynka
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2011-05-02T17:42:31.515000+00:00

CHAPTER 11

The Passenger

It was the summer of 1977, and David Bowie and Iggy Pop had just about had enough of each other. For around a year now they’d been living in each other’s pockets, going to museums together, reading the same books, riding the same train, getting the same haircut, living in the same house. Now this was war.

This is how a battle might go. David would hear a theme tune from a TV channel and transmute it into a catchy riff, which he’d demonstrate for a few friends on a ukulele. Iggy would top him with an improvised lyric about getting it in the ear, or some other crazed stream-of-consciousness hip poetry, delivering it straight-faced and defying his small audience not to laugh. Meanwhile, the crazed Sales brothers, two manic, impassioned musicians who’d spent much of their time in Berlin paranoid they might be turned into lampshades, would seize control of the song, shooting it in a new direction with a beat that sounded like it came from a drum kit fifty feet high.

Sitting upright behind a mixing desk in a stone-lined studio nestled in a grandiose but war-scarred Berlin masonic hall, David Bowie was in open competition with the man whose career he’d done so much to revive. He was sick of Iggy’s rock histrionics, but he was on a roll, the best roll of his life. Jim Osterberg was on a roll too, laughing manically as he wrestled back control of his own music. He had his own apartment, he was living on cocaine, hash, red wine and German sausages, he took a cold shower every morning - or at least thought about taking a shower. He was the happiest he’d ever been in his life.

But at night he’d dream of revenge.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.