He invited Iggy Pop to embark with him on this voyage. During that same year David Bowie’s cocaine psychosis was rapidly spiraling out of control as he recorded the sessions for Station to Station in Cherokee Studios. Iggy Pop checked himself into a drug rehabilitation clinic in a mental hospital in Los Angeles in 1975. ![]() Dave Alexander died at the age of 27 due to his alcoholism in 1975. The Stooges broke up for a second and final time in 1974. Their roadie and touring bassist Zeke Zettner died of a heroin overdose at the age of 25 in 1973. The band then briefly reunited in 1972 to record Raw Power. The band fired bassist Dave Alexander in August 1970 because he was an alcoholic and the band broke up for the first time in July 1971 (the same month Jim Morrison died). Iggy Pop had struggled with substance abuse throughout his tenure as the frontman of The Stooges. ![]() Iggy Pop had destroyed his mind through heroin and David Bowie had numbed his emotions through cocaine. In the middle of the 1970s, David Bowie and Iggy Pop were both struggling with the demons of their drug addictions. I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.
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