Inside Tracks #43: "Tonight"-Tina Turner Covers David Bowie & Iggy Pop, Live, 1988

In an attempt to clean up, Ig & David travel to the Heroin Capital of the World to write and record in 1976! They wind up with a song that both record, and it culminates in an '80s cover by a legend!

“He resurrected me,” Iggy Pop wrote at the time of his longtime pal, David Bowie’s January 2016 death. “He was more of a benefactor than a friend in a way most people think of friendship. He went a bit out of his way to bestow some good karma on me.”—Rolling Stone, January 27, 2016

“I learned a lot from him,” Iggy continued. “I first heard The Ramones, Kraftwerk and Tom Waits from him. He also had a certain rigor. If he saw something in another artist he admired, if they didn’t pick up that ball and run with it, he didn’t have any problem saying, ‘Well, if you’re not going to do it, I will. I’ll do this thing you should have done.’ And that was very valid.”

Bowie and Iggy: It’s tough to know how their co-write on “Tonight” began.

‘David-Bowie-Straße’: Commemorating Bowie at Hauptstraße 155 in Schöneberg, a locality in West Berlin, Germany. This is the apartment building in which Bowie and Iggy lived from 1976-1978.📸Imago/Peter Homann

This recent look at that particular period in Bowie’s and Iggy’s careers outlines the chronology of Bowie’s “Berlin Trilogy” and Iggy’s The Idiot and Lust For Life albums:

Pressing the Flesh With Iggy Pop: My Encounter With the Godfather of Punk in 1977

Iggy talks about “his Berlin period with Bowie” on a ‘19 Jonathan Ross TV show (UK):

Bowie gives his account of that era on a 1997 Much Music show (Canada):

Roaring Through the Calendar, Making Music