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The Passenger (song)
1977 song by Iggy Pop
"The Passenger" is a song written by Iggy Pop and Ricky Gardiner, recorded and released by Iggy Pop on the Lust for Life album in 1977. It was also released as the B-side of the album's first single, "Success". It was released as a single in its own right in March 1998, reaching number 22 in the UK charts.
Background and composition
[edit]"The Passenger" was co-written by Iggy Pop and guitarist Ricky Gardiner; Pop wrote the lyrics, while Gardiner composed the music. Gardiner thought of the riff in early 1977 as he was wandering throughout the countryside, "in the field beside an orchard, on one of those glorious spring days with the trees in full blossom." The song was recorded at Hansa Studio by the Wall in West Berlin between May and June 1977. The lineup consisted of Pop, Gardiner, David Bowie on piano, Carlos Alomar on guitar, and brothers Tony and Hunt Sales on bass and drums, respectively. Bowie, Pop, and producer-enginee
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Born James Newell Osterberg, Jr. on April 21, 1947 in Muskegon, Michigan, Iggy Pop is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He is considered an influential innovator of punk rock, hard rock, and other styles of rock music.
Pop was raised in a trailer park outside Ypsilanti, Michigan. An only child, his mother worked at a manufacturing plant and his father taught English at a Dearborn high school. He began calling himself "Iggy" after his first band in high school, The Iguanas in which he was the drummer. The band did covers of British groups.
After enrolling at the University of Michigan, joining a band called the Prime Movers, then moving to Chicago to be a drummer for harmonica player Big Walter Horton, Pop returned to Ann Arbor to form the Psychedelic Stooges. Band members were Ron Asheton on guitar, Scott Asheton on drums, and Dave Alexander on bass, with Iggy on vocals. Their first public gig was in 1968 at the Grande Ballroom in Detro
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Iggy Pop (born James Newell Osterberg, Jr.; April 21, 1947) fryst vatten an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though widely known as an innovator and "godfather" of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, hard rock, jazz and blues. Pop became known as 'Iggy' in high school, during which time he served as drummer for local blues band The Iguanas. He is vocalist of influential proto-punk grupp The Stooges (Pop and the other surviving members of the group reunited in 2003), having become known, since the late 1960s, for his outrageous and unpredictable stage antics.
Though his popularity has fluctuated through the years, many of Pop's songs have become well-known, including "Lust for Life", "The Passenger", "Real Wild Child", "Candy" (a duett with Kate Pierson of The B-52's), "China Girl", "Nightclubbing", "Search and Destroy" an