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
Released	May 1978
Recorded	March 21, 22 & 28, 1977 October 26, 1977
Genre	Hard rock punk rock
Length	36:01
Label	RCA
Producer	Iggy Pop, David Bowie
Iggy Pop chronology
Kill City (1977) TV Eye Live 1977 (1978) New Values (1979)
Singles from TV Eye Live 1977
"I Got a Right" Released: 1978

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	C+[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[4]
Tom Hull – on the Web	B−[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.

Track listing

1. "T.V. Eye" [sic]^[6][7][8] (Iggy Pop, Ron Asheton)
2. "Funtime" (Iggy Pop, David Bowie)
3. "Sixteen" (Iggy Pop)
4. "I Got a Right" (Iggy Pop)
5. "Lust for Life" (Iggy Pop, David Bowie)
6. "Dirt" (Iggy Pop)
7. "Nightclubbing" (Iggy Pop, David Bowie)
8. "I Wanna Be Your Dog" (Iggy Pop, Ron Asheton)

Charts

Chart (1978)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[9]	89

Personnel

• Iggy Pop – vocals
• David Bowie – piano and synthesizers (on tracks 1, 2, 6 & 8)
• Ricky Gardiner – guitar (on tracks 1, 2, 6 & 8)
• Stacey Heydon – guitar (on tracks 3, 4, 5 & 7)
• Scott Thurston – guitar, piano, harmonica, synthesizer (on tracks 3, 4, 5 & 7)
• Tony Sales – bass
• Hunt Sales – drums

Technical

• Eduard Meyer – engineer
• Barney Wan – art direction
• Jan Michael Alejandro – tech, road crew
• Vern "Moose" Constan – tech, road crew
• Robert Joyce – tech, road crew

References

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.
6. "iTunes – Music – TV Eye (1977 Live) by Iggy Pop". iTunes Store. Apple Inc. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
7. "TV Eye (1977 Live) – Iggy Pop | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
8. "Iggy Pop – TV Eye 1977 Live (Vinyl, LP, Album) at Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
9. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 235. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.