Iggy Pop‘s song, “Lust for Life,” marked another collaboration with David Bowie that took 20 years to gain popularity, but still managed to become one of the rock genre’s greatest tracks.
After a period of drug addiction, Pop reunited with Bowie to work on his second solo album, Lust for Life. It was their second time working together since Bowie’s The Idiot album that released earlier that year. Pop often described his friendship with Bowie as, “this guy salvaged me from certain professional and maybe personal annihilation.”
They soon began working on “Lust for Life,” which was originally developed by Bowie on a ukulele while he was lying down. The song’s popular opening sound was actually inspired by a famous ’70s series starring Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul.
“Once a week the Armed Forces Network would play Starsky & Hutch and that was our little ritual. AFN would broadcast an ID when they came on the air, a representation of a radio tower, and it made a signal sound, ‘beep-beep-beep, beep-beep-ba-beep.’ And we went, ‘Aha we’ll take that!’ David grabbed his ukulele, worked out the chords, and away we went,” said Pop to Q magazine.
The track was released in 1977, but failed to enter the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It instead landed at No. 3 on the Dutch Top 40 and No. 4 in the Netherlands. “Lust for Life” wouldn’t become a hit and re-enter the charts until decades later in 1996 when it was featured in the British film Trainspotting. It starred Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, and Kelly Macdonald, and was praised by critics as one of the best films of the 90s.
The film heavily used “Lust for Life” for its marketing and included it in its soundtrack. Its resurgence even led Pop’s then-label to issue a greatest hits compilation album.
“When I made Lust for Life, I really thought America was gonna rock to this motherfucker. And it took 20 fuckin’ years, which is a really long time to wait. I guess what happened is that there was this system that wasn’t gonna fuckin’ give me a break, and I outlived the system,” said Pop in a 1999 interview.
“The movies and advertisers have subverted the stranglehold of radio in America, and there are now other ways for people to hear music. All of a sudden—a few years ago when Trainspotting came out—I was walkin’ down the street and I’d heard Raw Power comin’ out of the bars.”
The Pop and Bowie collaboration is a music staple, ranked by Rolling Stone at No. 326 on their list of the “Greatest Songs of All Time.” They called the track a “kiss-off to drugged-out hedonism,” with “enormous kaboom and Pop’s sneering, free-associative lyrics.”
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