TV Eye Live 1977

For the "TV Eye" current affairs series, see This Week (1956 TV programme).
TV Eye Live 1977
Live album by
Iggy Pop
ReleasedMay 1978
RecordedMarch 21, 22 & 28, 1977
October 26, 1977
Genre
Length36:01
LabelRCA
ProducerIggy Pop, David Bowie
Iggy Pop chronology
Kill City
(1977) 		TV Eye Live 1977
(1978) 		New Values
(1979)
Singles from TV Eye Live 1977
  1. "I Got a Right"
    Released: 1978
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Christgau's Record GuideC+[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]
Tom Hull – on the WebB−[5]

TV Eye Live 1977 (or simply TV Eye) is a live album by the American musician Iggy Pop originally released in 1978. Iggy took a $90,000 advance from RCA Records to finish his contract with a live album. According to AllMusic, the album was assembled from soundboard tapes. Iggy Pop doctored them in a German studio, quickly and cheaply for around $5,000. The album features recordings from concerts on March 21 & 22, 1977 at The Agora in Cleveland, Ohio; on March 28, 1977 at The Aragon in Chicago, Illinois; and on October 26, 1977 at The Uptown Theater in Kansas City, Missouri.

The album is notable for the presence of David Bowie on keyboards and background vocals for selected tracks and the rather crushing bass and drum sound; also, with the Sales brothers, the lineup prefigures in part Bowie's Tin Machine lineup.

  1. ^ TV Eye Live 1977 at AllMusic
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: P". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 10, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). "Iggy Pop". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
  4. ^ Coleman, Mark; Kemp, Rob (2004). "Iggy Pop". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). New York City: Simon & Schuster. pp. 645–46. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  5. ^ Hull, Tom (August 17, 2020). "Music Week". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved August 19, 2020.