While tracing the collaborative history of Iggy Pop and David Bowie, you inevitably end at Iggy Pop’s 1986 album, Blah-Blah-Blah and its third single, "Shades." According to the liner notes, the album was produced and co-written by Bowie, but the larger story - the one dipped in gossip and swirled in rock ’n roll folklore - is that Blah-Blah-Blah is a repurposing of throwaway material from Bowie's ill-fated Tonight sessions, calling into question the classic Bowie/Pop paradox: is it Iggy Pop singing a David Bowie song? Or is it David Bowie producing an . . .
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