Reposted from @thelegendsofmusic Iggy Pop playing “Lust for Life” Live in Manchester in 1977 Written by David Bowie and Iggy Pop, “Lust for Life” is all about the singers lifestyle as a hard-living heroin addict. The title of the song takes it’s inspiration from the 1956 film of the same name, which itself is an adaptation of Irving Stone’s 1934 biographical novel about the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh. David Bowie wrote the music to this song by composing the main melody and the bass line on a ukulele. Musically, the song was inspired by opening to the American Forces Network News, which the pair listened to in Berlin. Iggy recalled to Q magazine April 2013: “Once a week the Armed Forces Network would play Starsky & Hutch and that was our little ritual. AFN would broadcast an ID when they came on the air, a representation of a radio tower, and it made a signal sound, ‘beep-beep-beep, beep-beep-ba-beep.’ And we went, ‘Aha we’ll take that!’. David grabbed his ukulele, worked out the chords, and away we went.” Around the time that the song was written, the duo were actively trying to kick their drug habits. #Music #RockNRoll #IggyPop #DavidBowie iiii]; )'