Search and Destroy

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Written by: Iggy Pop, James Williamson
Produced by: David Bowie
Released: April '73 on Columbia
Charts: Did not chart

With "raw power," producer Bowie tried to mold the Detroit punks into glam-rock stars like himself. The mixed-bag experiment yielded this feral rocker, inspired by a headline from an article about the Vietnam War. The "streetwalking cheetah with a heart full of napalm" is Iggy Pop himself, who said he wrote it while wearing his cheetah-patterned leather jacket and "snorting big Chinese rocks of heroin."

Appears on: Raw Power (Epic)

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