The mainstream a voice sometimes painfully raw and, with the benefit of hindsight, so Heard at his most powerful and exhausting, utterly unlike anything that could be heard in It is uncompromisingly loudĪnd purposefully, unapologetically in-your-face brash, and, for 30-odd minutes, Iggy is Raw, chaotic sound of pounded drums and shredded guitar. Today as one of the first “real” punk, or alternative, albums, both aesthetically and within its He did a good thing.”Īs he would later add in Far Out Magazine, David Bowie was, “ more of aīenefactor than a friend in a way most people think of friendship… He went a bit out of hisĪlthough unnoticed, and certainly unloved at the time of its release, like a lot ofĪlbums now eagerly held aloft and loudly acclaimed as “classics”, Raw Power is regarded With it, and who also had decent enough intentions to help me out. Truly in common with me, and who actually really liked what I did and could get on board “ A lot of people were curious about me, but only he was the one who had enough Maybe personal annihilation simple as that,” Iggy Pop openly admitted to The New York “ The friendship was basically that this guy salvaged me from certain professional and Was a fucking genius… Without him Raw Power would not have happened.” “We didn’t realise it at the time, but the guy More grateful than Lou ever was – Lou never really had a good word to say forĭavid…most of the time,” Williamson recalls. “ How much he helped us, Mott, or Lou … Although I think we were Would step forward and help the band in the years preceding that. Stooges’ guitarist James Williamson, not a lot of people realise just how much Bowie Everyone knows of the Berlin period that would come a few years later, and of theĪlbums that would emerge from the city’s Hamza Studios by the wall, but, according to the On top of that, we were all one step awayįrom becoming junkies and the ones that weren’t junkies were completely out of touch withĮnter a certain David Bowie, riding the crest of an innovative wave of creativenessĪnd emboldened by already resuscitating the floundering careers of Mott The Hoople and It and I knew that most people wouldn’t get it. “ I knew our management didn’t want it, I knew that radio didn’t understand “ I realised that there was almost no-one in the world who wanted to save The Stooges,”
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