“Success” by Iggy Pop

"Success" comes off Lust for Life, Iggy Pop's second solo album and his second of 1977 with David Bowie, cut at Hansa Studio by the Wall in West Berlin that May and June after the pair had toured The Idiot with Bowie on keyboards. Bowie and guitarist Ricky Gardiner wrote the music and Iggy wrote the words, and the touring band is all over it: Gardiner on guitar alongside Carlos Alomar, Bowie on electric piano, Tony Sales on bass and Hunt Sales on drums, the Sales brothers singing backup behind Iggy.

The production credit reads Bewlay Bros., with Eduard Meyer and Colin Thurston engineering. After Bowie had written most of The Idiot, Iggy pushed for more control this time, and the album came out harder and rawer, closer to his old style with the Stooges.

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