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he told Iggy, was a sign that the world had not
forgotten The Stooges. Carlos Alomar saw the two
talking and noticed their joint explorations ‘somehow
had a calming effect’. They were similar, but
different, ‘just like when you split an atom and it’s
twins’.
There was something marvellously instantaneous
about Iggy and David’s new, deep friendship. In
some respects it was completely bizarre. ‘I really
didn’t have a reference for why they were friends,’
says Carlos Alomar. ‘Nor were they musical friends.’
Both men were enormously narcissistic, and had
proved irredeemably selfish over the previous year,
yet each was supportive and kind to the other. Iggy
didn’t make special claims on David, nor did he
abase himself. ‘There was no kow-towing, or
humbling,’ says Alomar. If others complained about
David’s behaviour, and Iggy could do something, he
would. But when necessary, he’d be brutally honest
with those who asked for his intercession. ‘That’s
how it is,’ he’d tell complainers, ‘just deal with it.’
In part, each one’s frank admiration for the other
was driven by the fact they were almost polar
opposites: ‘They each want what the other one has,’
says a mutual friend, Eric Schermerhorn. Yet each of
their characters was widely misunderstood. Bowie
was the supposed middle-class intellectual; yet it
was Iggy – in the guise of Jimmy Osterberg, school
debate champion – who’d been voted ‘Most Likely
to Succeed’ by his Junior High School classmates,
and made it to university. And Iggy was the wild man:
yet it was Bowie who’d push himself, and others, well