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“I like music that’s more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.”
Iggy Pop
Some time after the separation of the Stooges, Iggy Pop is at its worst, unable to do without the drugs that he consumes in industrial quantities. His health is declining, both physically and psychologically. He was then interned. David Bowie is one of its only visitors. Iggy needs help, and Ziggy wants to give it to him.
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However, the Briton is not a choirboy either and drugs are also part of his life. When the two men decided to leave for Berlin, their goal was clear: to wean themselves off and work on new material. The two friends move to Hauptstraße 155 and enjoy the German capital. You can see them in the Brücke Museum and in places like the Anderes Ufer, a bar that has since been renamed Neues Ufer. When he doesn’t ransack the apartment, the American singer composes with David Bowie. The time has come to go to Hansa Studios to record the fruit of their feverish sessions. The prestigious location inspires them. Iggy Pop is literally reborn and closes The Idiot and Lust for Life, his first two solo albums, still considered the best. David Bowie for his part, will record Low and Heroes in the same studios.
Iggy Pop released eighteen solo albums between 1977 and 2020. He released five with the Stooges between 1969 and 2013.
Hansa Studios
Opened in 1965 by Peter and Thomas Meisel, Hansa Studios is one of the most legendary studios in Europe. Their reputation was built on prestigious collaborations, both before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Originally located in the Halensee district, the studio complex moved to its final address in 1975. Its façade, with beautiful columns, is remarkable in itself. Among the big names to have recorded there are David Bowie and Iggy Pop, Nina Hagen, Depeche Mode, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Marillion, Killing Joke, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Pixies, U2, Charles Aznavour, R.E.M., The Hives and Manic Street Preachers. A documentary entitled Hansa Studios: By The Wall 1976-1990 tells its story.
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