Iggy Pop • Live at the Manchester Apollo • So it Goes • 25th September 1977

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This video is a compilation of all the known Iggy 1977 So It Goes / Live in Manchester material, taken from a variety of sources. It features the tracks Lust For Life and The Passenger and an extensive interview with Tony Wilson.

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So it Goes was a British TV music show that ran in 1976 and 1977 on Granada Television. It was presented by Factory Records founder, Tony Wilson, and specialised in showcasing the punk and alternative rock scene of the day.

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Lust for Life had been released on the 29th of August, about a month prior to the Manchester show. 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 on bass, Hunt Sales on drums, Ricky Gardiner on guitar, David Bowie on keyboards and backing vocals. Plus Carlos Alomar on guitar.



However, by the time of the Lust for Life tour, Bowie and Gardner were gone, replaced by multi-instrumentalist Scott Thurston, on guitar, piano, synthesizer, and harmonica, and Bowie's former lead guitarist from the Station to Station tour, Stacy Heydon: ”Iggy accompanied us throughout the Station to Station tour. He and Dave were best mates. I was approached by Jimmy. No doubt Dave gave his blessing". Scott Thurston had already been a member of the 1973 - 74 live incarnation of The Stooges, and he had played on the Kill City material in 1975.



Stacy Heydon talking about the tour with Iggy: "The people in Manchester were among the best. Being mostly of English dissent I felt very much at home throughout the country. Jimmy was and is quite the entertainer. On countless occasions he would be sharing his extensive knowledge on things like French impressionists, psychology, various political systems, specific museum pieces and the like. Two steps later as soon as we’d taken the stage all bets were off. Being on tour with Mr Osterburg was not for the faint of heart but it did open my eyes to the immense wit and chameleon like qualities that he could extract from his psyche at will, and was the very fabric of his being. That said, whichever side of the cloth you happened to be with at any given time seemed to be the antithesis of the other. If it’s true that opposites attract, that little fucker must love himself as much as we all do!”

The material shot for So it Goes was shown on British TV about a month after the live show, on the 30th of October. Part of The Passenger was shown, a short interview with Iggy, and at the end of the show, part of Lust for Life, with credits played before the end of the song.

Frustratingly, in the multiple TV sets that are the backdrop to Tony Wilson’s intro, we see more footage from the show and two other Iggy interviews! What happened to that material?!

Unfortunately, the broadcast led to the early demise of So it Goes. As John Cooper Clark states on his narration on “Anarchy in Manchester”, “Unfortunately for So it Goes, his (Iggy’s) noble onstage savagery led to the shows cancellation in late ’77. That FY appendage didn’t do it for Granada’s top brass.” And so the planned Third Series of So it Goes never happened.

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A little extra material from the Iggy interview, and extra footage and different audio sources of the two songs from the live show have surfaced here and there. So as per my usual remit with these recreation videos, from the 10+ sources I could find, I have compiled all the best quality bits and pieces into one fluid and hopefully enjoyable whole. No footage could be found for the first minute and a half of Lust for Life, so I used footage from another European date on the tour (possibly Amsterdam). It’s not a perfect match - Iggy is wearing different clothing and the venue and audience are obviously different, but better than a blank screen or omitting a large chunk of the track, I think.

A version of this video was originally uploaded in 2017, but was recently removed by the host site. Since it is Mr Osterberg’s birthday today, here it is with a few small improvements, tho’ still far from perfect.

Thanks for watching, hope you dig it!

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I am grateful to Easy Action for providing audio tracks and allowing me to use them on this video. The Manchester audio performances of Lust for Life and The Passenger are available to buy from Easy Action, as downloads and limited edition 10” vinyl.http://easyaction.co.uk

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