Iggy Pop • Lust For Life • Live in Manchester • 25th September 1977

Lust for Life is a track originally from the Iggy Pop album, Lust for Life released on the 29th of August, 1977. Most of the footage used here was shot about a month later, for So it Goes; a British TV music show. 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 scene of the day. Manchester 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 and 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 The Idiot touring band of: Tony Sales - bass, Hunt Sales - drums, Ricky Gardiner - guitar, David Bowie - keyboard and backing vocals. Plus Carlos Alomar - guitar. However, by the time of the Lust for Life tour, Bowie and Gardner were gone, replaced by Bowie’s former lead guitarist from the Station to Station