Happy birthday, Mr Bowie
He did a helluva lot more for Iggy than produce Raw Power. He rescued him from an asylum (having sneaked him in coke for a while first), took him to Berlin, wrote and produced his best solo material by a light year, and even toured as his keyboardist. Five minutes later, Pop had already fallen back into being like this and soon pissed it all up the wall again. So in 1983 Bowie did 'China Girl' at his commercial peak, to get Iggy some much-needed royalties, then 'Tonight' and 'Neighbourhood Threat' the next year to sort him out for life. That is a guardian angel, and it's not as if the support or even influence was two-way: Bowie was just a fan.
There are some great clips of Bowie on the Dinah Shore daytime TV show from the mid-70s doing the rounds. He'd charmed the audience with his 'plastic soul' stuff (his term, not derogatory), joining in karate skits and admiring the work of Fonzie. And he actually used this credit to get Iggy on and do all this.
He did a helluva lot more for Iggy than produce Raw Power. He rescued him from an asylum (having sneaked him in coke for a while first), took him to Berlin, wrote and produced his best solo material by a light year, and even toured as his keyboardist. Five minutes later, Pop had already fallen back into being like this and soon pissed it all up the wall again. So in 1983 Bowie did 'China Girl' at his commercial peak, to get Iggy some much-needed royalties, then 'Tonight' and 'Neighbourhood Threat' the next year to sort him out for life. That is a guardian angel, and it's not as if the support or even influence was two-way: Bowie was just a fan.
There are some great clips of Bowie on the Dinah Shore daytime TV show from the mid-70s doing the rounds. He'd charmed the audience with his 'plastic soul' stuff (his term, not derogatory), joining in karate skits and admiring the work of Fonzie. And he actually used this credit to get Iggy on and do all this.
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