Iggy Pop

Helped (once again) by David Bowie and Pistols guitarist Steve Jones, this led to a commercial rebirth for the Igster and received plenty of alt rock airplay for "Real Wild Child" and "Cry For Love." Iggy's throaty croon suits the era very well but "Isolation" is one of the few tracks that still works with the stereotypically '80s drum heavy over-production.

David Bowie owes a good deal of his gold and platinum to Iggy Pop. The mad Michigan daddy
of punk is widely believed to have inspired Bowie's glitterrock creation Ziggy Stardust, and
two of Bowie's biggest hits were about ("The Jean Genie") and by (an Iggy-Bowie
collaboration, "China Girl") the Pop. The Thin White Duke has dutifully repaid that debt over
the years: he coaxed Iggy back from drugland in Berlin and produced his robust... More >

You could point out that The Idiot and Lust for Life were cut with the Bowie of Low and "Heroes" while Blah-Blah-Blah was cut with the Bowie of Let's Dance and "Dancing in the Streets." Or you could surmise that copping to conscience did even less for Ig than finding true love did for Chrissie Hynde. (Grade - C+)