

Recorded in secrecy with Josh Homme and friends the year before, it was released in the months following the death of David Bowie. Shore’s square studio audience, too, seem to actually be charmed by Jimmy Osterberg’s tales of his misspent youth, drug addiction and self-harming, because Iggy was charisma personified during this delightful chat. Iggy Pop’s album Post-Pop Depression (2016) was unfortunately timely. In 1976 David Bowie and Iggy Pop moved to Berlin to reinvent themselves and create four of the most influential records of all time.
DAVID BOWIE AND IGGY POP TV
Pop also performed ‘ Sister Midnight‘ during the show.ĭinah! may have been a middle-of-the-road daytime TV show, but to her credit, Dinah Shore didn’t shy away from asking him about it either (as Bowie laughs and shakes his head “No!”).

Bowie had been on Dinah! to promote Station to Station (with fellow guests Nancy Walker and Henry Winkler) and seemed to have a good rapport with Shore, so it was arranged that he would guest with Iggy, who sang a live ‘ Funtime‘after Shore introduced him - her show was on at 10am - with a photograph of him covered in blood! Iggy Pop has led the tributes to the guitarist Ricky Gardiner, who has passed away at the age of 73. When Iggy and Bowie toured in the Spring of 1977 in support of The Idiot, they made a stop on daytime television’s Dinah! show, hosted by singer Dinah Shore. In the clip, David Bowie plays keyboards in Iggy Pop’s band, and both were interviewed by Shore.

So Bowie wasn't exactly being helpful - he was also aided by one of the most notorious druggies in entertainment, actor/director Dennis Hopper. Brief segment of Iggy Pop performing ‘ Funtime‘ on the Dinah Shore show in 1977. In an episode that defies belief, Bowie strolled into the facility where Iggy was desperately trying to get well and supplied his mate with just what he didn't need. In this particular early relapse, Bowie, Iggy Pop and filmmaker and writer, Rory Maclean who would later recall the story, were in a car in a parking garage.
