![]() ![]() Gardiner also released a CD, The Passenger, which contains two versions of the title track, sung by his wife, Virginia A Scott. In 1998, on the back of a TV car advertisement, it was eventually a hit. Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group The Passenger Iggy Pop Lust For Life 1977 Thousand Mile, Inc., under exclusive license to Virgin Records. It was lifted from Lust for Life, as the flipside to Pop's 1977 flop, “Success”. ![]() The song was recorded at Hansa studios in Berlin. The Passenger by Iggy Pop 4.9 out of 5 stars59 MP3 Music Listen with Music Unlimited Or 1.29 to buy MP3 The Passenger by Iggy Pop 4. Pop completed the lyrics, inspired, he said, by a Jim Morrison poem. “When I was invited to join David and Iggy in Berlin, I did not realise that they needed material, so I was unprepared when they asked me if I had anything,” he says.Īs a fall-back, Gardiner played them his chord sequence on an unplugged Stratocaster. Gardiner first met Iggy Pop while contributing guitar parts to David Bowie's album, Low, and was retained for the pair's next collaboration, Lust for Life. While anyone with a serious intent toward understanding Iggy Pops genius should start with the three official Stooges albumsThe Stooges, Fun House, and Raw Powerfans who want a quick sprinkling of solo highlights will find them here.The Stooges material here is scattered but worthy. “It was a case of the chord sequence 'slipping through' while I was lost in the glory of a beautiful spring morning,” he recalls, 30 years on. As far as quick summaries of long careers go, Nude & Rude is solidly done. Intro Am F C G Am F C E / 1st verse Am F C G I am the passenger Am F C E And I ride and I ride Am F C G I ride through the city back streets Am F C E I. He began idly strumming – Am-F-C-G, Am-F-C-E/E7. ![]() In fact, its origin was one sunny May in the mid-Seventies when Ricky Gardiner, a former member of the prog ensemble Beggars Opera, was sauntering, guitar in hand, under the apple blossom near his rural home. One might assume “The Passenger” was inspired by nocturnal car-rides through some concrete grey metropolis. The albums of his that I love are some of the best music. Here comes success? Iggy Pop and David Bowie in Germany, 1977 (Getty) Iggys an odd one in that hes done so much music in so many styles. ![]()
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