He was reportedly inspired by Chicago blues music and then by bands like Tacoma's Sonics and Los Angeles's Doors. Iggy Pop - born James Osterberg on April 21, 1947, in Muskegon, Michigan - began his career in the mid-1960s as a high-schooler playing drums in the Ann Arbor-based rock band the Iguanas. He hit the big-time again in 1975 with the single 'Fame,' a collaboration with John Lennon (1940-1980, and the album Young Americans, and in 1977 with 'Heroes.' A leader of the emergent glam-rock movement, the ever-experimental Bowie adopted a new stage persona, 'Ziggy Stardust,' and in 1972 released his 'Starman' single and the classic futuristic concept album, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

Other discs followed, but it was his science-fiction-themed 'Space Oddity' tune that won Bowie his first radio hit in 1969. The concert is phenomenal, but the best part of the visit may have come the prior night: Iggy - along with a few members of the concert's opening act, the New Wave band Blondie - jammed on some sixties garage-rock classics with several young local punk rockers at a post-midnight beer bash at their Ballard flophouse.ĭavid Bowie - born David Jones on Janu- was an innovative British singer, songwriter, and musician whose first notable band, the King Bees, made their recording debut in June 1964 by releasing a single that included a cover version of 'Louie - Go Home,' by Portland, Oregon's, Paul Revere and the Raiders. Among the quartet of musicians backing Iggy at the Paramount Theatre show is a very notable admirer: the famed British rocker David Bowie (1947-2016), who first conquered rockdom back in 1972 with his Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars album. 1947) finally makes his Seattle concert debut before a crowd of devotees - some of whom have been fans of his incredibly influential recordings since the late 1960s. On the evening of Saturday, April 9, 1977, Michigan's veteran proto-punk icon Iggy Pop (b.

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