“Johnny Rotten got here in, turned to Iggy and mentioned, Oo the f***’s that – your supervisor or one thing?” David Bowie on his first encounter with the Intercourse Pistols

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David Bowie‘s work with Lou Reed (on 1972 Transformer) and Iggy and The Stooges (on 1973’s Uncooked Energy) might have helped pave the way in which for punk rock in England, however that did not essentially imply that the Class of ’77 held Bowie in excessive regard. In a 1991 interview with [now defunct] British music journal Q, Bowie recalled his first encounter with one of many Intercourse Pistols in 1977, and the way it induced him to “practically soften by means of the ground” with embarrassment.

On the time, Bowie was taking part in piano alongside his future Tim Machine colleagues Tony Gross sales (bass) and Hunt Gross sales (drums) in Iggy Pop’s band, touring Pop’s first solo album, The Fool, which Bowie had produced. Within the first week of March 1977, the tour stopped off for 2 nights on the Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park, north London, which occurred to be the place Intercourse Pistols frontman Johnny Rotten lived. So on an evening off from engaged on By no means Thoughts The Bollocks, Rotten determined to pop in to the Rainbow to say ‘Howdy’ to the Godfather of Punk.

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