“Winners and Losers” by Iggy Pop

"Winners and Losers" is one of the three songs Iggy Pop wrote with ex-Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones for Blah-Blah-Blah, his seventh album, which A&M released in 1986 after four years without a new record. Jones plays guitar on it alongside Kevin Armstrong, and Erdal Kızılçay covers most of the rest: drums, bass, organ, synthesizer, sampler, even violin.

David Bowie produced and mixed it with David Richards, who also engineered, and while Bowie played nothing he did sing backing vocals with Armstrong and Kızılçay. It marked the end of the road for the partnership behind The Idiot and Lust for Life, and Bowie biographer David Buckley reports that Pop all but disowned the album, though it became the most commercially successful of his career.

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