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Iggy Pop

The Passenger

1977 · via Bauhaus and 1 more

Iggy Pop’s 1977 recording of “The Passenger” is the earliest release on file. Iggy Pop shares the writing credit with Ricky Gardiner. Also recorded by R.E.M. (released 1999), Die Toten Hosen (released 1996) and Siouxsie and the Banshees (released 1987), among 106 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

Iggy Pop – The Passenger
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Bauhaus played this one live, but it starts with Iggy Pop, who wrote it with a guitarist named Ricky Gardiner. Siouxsie and the Banshees cut it too, so follow Iggy and you'll keep running into the same crowd.

Iggy Pop wrote it with Ricky Gardiner and put it on record first, and Siouxsie kept the ride going. Play his version and you can hear the road they took it down, which R.E.M. and Bauhaus later traveled too.

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Credited writers: Ricky Gardiner and Iggy Pop.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1977.

Other recordings on file · first release year

106 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Bauhaus took The Passenger onto the stage. Who made the first recording of it, sharing the writing credit with Ricky Gardiner?Iggy Pop
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Siouxsie and the Banshees recorded "The Passenger", but they didn't write it. Who co-wrote it and cut the first recording before Siouxsie ever sang it?Iggy Pop
a knot from Siouxsie and the Banshees · next: Iggy Pop
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