Iggy Pop | Lust For Life | Live at the Manchester Apollo | 25 September 1977

Iggy Pop’s Lust for Life album was released on the 9th of September 1977. Here is a video of the title track, recorded live in Manchester 1977, created from multiple restored sources. • The Manchester Apollo was the ninth date of the Lust for Life tour. The tour had started in Iggy’s then home-city of Berlin, on September the 12th. It would finish up two months later, on the 18th of November at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. The musicians on the Lust for Life album had been Carlos Alomar on guitar, and The Idiot touring band of Tony Sales on bass, Hunt Sales on drums, Ricky Gardiner on guitar, David Bowie on keyboards and backing vocals (and moreover of course production and co-songwriting). However, by the time of the Lust for Life tour, Bowie and Gardner were gone, replaced by multi-instrumentalist Scott Thurston and Guitarist Stacy Heydon. On the tour, Scott Thurston played guitar, piano, synthesizer and harmonica. He had been a member of the 1973 - 74 live incarnation of The Stooges, and had played on Iggy’s Kill City material in 1975. Stacy Heydon had been Bowie’s lead guitarist on the Station to Station tour. Stacy Heydon, speaking about how he became involved in the tour, and about the shows and about Iggy: “Iggy accompanied us throughout the Station to Station tour. He and Dave were best mates. I was approached by Jimmy (to join the touring band). No doubt Dave gave his blessing. “The people in Manchester were among the best. Being mostly of English dissent, I felt very much at home throughout the country. “Jimmy was and is quite the entertainer. On countless occasions he would be sharing his extensive knowledge on things like French impressionists, psychology, various political systems, specific museum pieces and the like. Two steps later as soon as we’d taken the stage, all bets were off. Being on tour with Mr Osterburg was not for the faint of heart, but it did open my eyes to the immense wit and chameleon like qualities that he could extract from his psyche at will, and was the very fabric of his being. That said, whichever side of the cloth you happened to be with at any given time, seemed to be the antithesis of the other. If it’s true that opposites attract, that little fucker must love himself as much as we all do!“ • Most of the footage used here was shot at The Apollo in Manchester, on the 25th of September, for a British TV show called So it Goes. So it Goes was presented by Factory Records founder, Tony Wilson, and shown on Granada Television between 1976 and 1977. So it Goes specialised in showcasing the punk rock / alternative music scene of the day. The episode of So it Goes featuring Iggy Pop was aired on British TV on the 30th of October. Part of The Passenger was shown, a short interview with Iggy, and at the end of the show, part of Lust for Life, with credits played before the end of the song. Unfortunately, the broadcast of this episode led to the early demise of So it Goes. As John Cooper Clark states on his narration on “Anarchy in Manchester”, “Unfortunately for So it Goes, his (Iggy’s) noble onstage savagery, led to the shows cancelation in late ’77. That FY appendage didn’t do it for Granada’s top brass.” And so the planned third series of So it Goes never happened. • This recreation of Lust For Life is from 10 sources. No footage could be found for the first minute and a half of the track, so I used footage from another European date on the tour (possibly Amsterdam). It’s not a perfect match - Iggy is wearing different clothing and the venue and audience are obviously different - but better that than a blank screen or omitting a large chunk of the track, I think. Hope you dig it! • Credits Video and Audio: Iggy Pop • Lust For Life • Live at the Manchester Apollo • 25 September 1977 • From the Granada TV show So It Goes • Plus Lust For Life tour footage from an unknown date/venue on the Lust for Life tour Musicians: Vocals • Iggy Pop Lead Guitar • Stacy Heydon Guitar, keyboards, harmonica • Scott Thurston Bass • Tony Sales Drums • Hunt Sales • I am grateful to Easy Action for providing the audio track and allowing me to use it on this video. The Manchester audio performances of Lust for Life and The Passenger are available to buy from Easy Action, as downloads and a limited edition 10” vinyl has just been released. • Always more videos to follow, so please keep your electric eye on me babe! I don’t own the rights, and I’m not making any money out of this etc. Just a fan making videos for other fans. Please Share, Like, Comment, Subscribe TheNachoVideos@ I edit, therefore I am #IggyPop #LustForLife #Sixteen #1977