The Passenger (song)
The Passenger is one of the most famous songs of American rock musician Iggy Pop. The piece first appeared on the album Lust for Life in 1977 and on the B- side of the single single release from the album Success and has been widely gecovert. The Passenger is played back by many radio stations since the reunion and U.S. tour of Iggy Pop and The Stooges. Pitchfork Media took the title in 2008 in the published as a book list of Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present to.
Background
The song was written during the time when Iggy Pop was living with David Bowie in Berlin and is slowly recovering from his drug and alcohol excesses. At the instigation of Bowie, the pop produced since the early 1970s together and sometimes also arranged the music and backing vocals contributed, Pop received a recording contract. Thus arose the two albums The Idiot and Lust for Life, which meant his international breakthrough as a solo artist. The idea for the text of The Passenger had Iggy Pop, who says he was inspired by a poem by Jim Morrison in which modern life is compared to a car, where you can watch everything, but not out - but only change.
The music of The Passenger comes from the Beggar's - Opera - guitarist Ricky Gardiner, who recorded also the ever- repeating typical guitar riff of the song. The refrain a continuously gescattetes " La -la ", originally sung by David Bowie.
1998 The Passenger was re- released in the UK for a TV commercial for the Toyota Avensis and reached number 22 on the British charts. In addition, the song was used for an award-winning commercial beer brewing Guinness and served as the soundtrack of various film productions, such as in The Weather Man, Jarhead, 23 - Nothing is as it seems, 24 Hour Party People or the digital animation film Waking Life.