Iggy And The Stooges Search And Destroy
Sep 15, 2020
4 minutes
Words: Ian Fortnam
Without the apparently limitless chutzpah of David Bowie, the broader musical landscape would be a significantly different place. Prior to Ziggy elevating Bowie to superstar status, he was already empire building. Luckily for posterity, he had both an eye for talent and an attractive compulsion to pay his dues. Major influences on his transformation from parochial folky to pansexual glam star weren’t so much sidelined as celebrated.
A stalled and desolate Mott The Hoople were seduced back into existence with Bowie song All The; Lou Reed’s tanking post-Velvets solo career was kicked back into life with a production job that birthed both and .
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