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Thursday, July 07, 2022

Iggy Pop & David Bowie :: Shades (1986) - AQUARIUM DRUNKARD

 BLAH-BLAH-BLAH!



Great article here from  e hehr over at Aquarium Drunkard yesterday





"While tracing the collaborative history of Iggy Pop and David Bowie, you inevitably end at Iggy Pop’s 1986 album, Blah-Blah-Blah and its third single, “Shades.” According to the liner notes, the album was produced and co-written by Bowie, but the larger story – the one dipped in gossip and swirled in rock ’n roll folklore – is that Blah-Blah-Blah is a repurposing of throwaway material from Bowie’s ill-fated Tonight sessions, calling into question the classic Bowie/Pop paradox: is it Iggy Pop singing a David Bowie song? Or is it David Bowie producing an Iggy Pop song?  . . . . "
e hehr

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