![]() ![]() ![]() It sounds too dumb to be true, but at the time these 5 minutes were a complete shock and a breath of fresh air. Another plant gets demolished and then it’s over. In the meantime he playbacks the song, making no effort at all to emulate the words convincingly. Pop then starts demolishing the set and throws himself unto a plant (palmtree). The recording manager is pulled along by Pop and is barely able to set himself free. No shirt, blood on his chest and a complete white made-up face. With a wild jerk the door to Pop’s dressing room flies open and Pop comes running to the stage. The leader of the productionteam decided that Penney de Jager (leader of the steady showballet connected to TopPop) should improvise some dance moves to the song.Īt the moment the Lust For Life tape was started Penney was all set to go on the stage. After the other planned shootings were done (Nana Mouskouri and Dutch symphonic band Kayak), Pop Still refused to get out of his dressing room. TopPop‘s productionteam tried every different angle to get Pop to cooperate. He was under the assumption he was going to play the song live with a band. He was pissed he had to playback the song. According to various sources he was completely disconnected from this world (so much for sobering up) and in a foul mood. Iggy Pop was going to do his Lust For Life. ![]() On October 8th, 1977, recordings were done in the Dutch AVRO studio. In 1996 the song turned into a hit once again, when it was used in the popular movie Trainspotting. The opening lines of the song have become classic and is something I can proclaim in my sleep: The line “that’s like hypnotising chickens” comes straight from the character Johnny Yen of William Buroughs’ novel The Ticket That Exploded. No more beating my brains with the liquor and drugs Bowie wanted to shake his cocaine habit and Pop tried to quit heroin. It hints to the health regime both David Bowie and Iggy Pop upheld, while being in Berlin. The song’s lyrics are the result of free word associations. Guitar player Carlos Alomar said the riff was so dominant, that it was just impossible for anyone to not go along with it. Hunt Sales’ drumbeat accompanied by his brother Tony Sales’ bass made for an irresistible riff. It’s a re-interpretation of the rhythm that was used in the 1966 hits You Can’t Hurry Love by The Supremes and I’m Ready For Love by Martha and the Vandellas. The drumbeat has been used in many songs ever since, but the rhythm wasn’t original. He wrote the progression on ukulele, and he said, ‘Call it Lust For Life, write something up’ The Armed Forces Network “was one of the few things that was in English on the telly and it had this great pulsating riff at the beginning of the news” Bowie and Pop heard it as they were waiting for an episode of the television-series Starsky & Hutch. The rhythm (and the riff) are based on the morse-signals of the Armed Forces Network. The song is widely known for its drumbeat that opens the song. The music is written by David Bowie (using an ukulele) and the lyrics are by Iggy Pop. ![]()
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