Lust for Life became the title track of Iggy Pop’s 1977 album. On the other hand, Ray Manzarek and Danny Sugarman of The Doors claimed that Iggy was referring to a mutual acquaintance, a drug dealer nicknamed “Johnny Gypsy”, who came to visit them on Wonderland Avenue with heroin and dildos (which is apparently what is hiding behind the “flesh machine”).
Allegedly, the phrase about hypnotized chickens was taken from there, as well as the image of Johnny Yen. It is believed that some lines of the lyrics of the song Lust for Life refer the listener to the novel “The Ticket That Bursted” by William Burroughs.
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The song is about Iggy Pop’s crazy lifestyle, which was full of drugs, alcohol, and much more. The name “Lust for Life” was borrowed from the film of the same name, based on Irving Stone’s novel about the life of Vincent van Gogh. And we thought, “Yeah, we’re taking this!” David grabbed a ukulele, concocted the chords, and it went. When AFN went on the air, a radio tower banner would play and the beep-beep-beep, beep-beep-ba-beep signal sounded.
Once a week, Starsky & Hutch aired on the Armed Forces Network, which was our little ritual to watch. In an interview with Q magazine, Pop said that they were inspired by their American Military Information Service (AFN) call signs: He wrote the lyrics and David wrote the music. The story & meaning of the song Lust for Life – Iggy Pop Iggy Pop’s most commercially successful and critically acclaimed album was Lust for Life, which he recorded with David Bowie in 1977.Įarlier on the pages of Blimey an article was published about how the song The Passenger from this disc was born, and now we will talk about the history of the creation of the title track.
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