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It’s just a rockin’ song, with a lot of energy.”

We just played São Paulo, and we opened the set with Raw Power. Playing that riff over and over again, it’s a nice way to get things going. “It lends itself to opening up, where the guitar can start out, and the bass and drums can drop in as the members of the band get their gear, and then Iggy can come out and do his thing. On the ensuing tour in support of Raw Power the title track was the set-opener, and with good reason, says Williamson. There’s been a lot of criticism about it over the years, but you’ve got to give him credit that nothing sounded like it before or since.” So I think he didn’t really understand the music, and he put a real arty overlay on it. But the problem was this was not a Bowie style of music – it wasn’t tune-y or anything that he usually does. Bowie had done a lot of albums, so we figured he knew what he was doing. Like I said, it was my first album, so I wasn’t going to be too critical in the studio. Bowie was on tour in the US then, so he had to do it fairly quickly. “First, Jim came over to Los Angeles, then I came over. Soon after, the songs were ‘Bowied’ back in the US. We did a mix that we thought was acceptable, but when we went to deliver it to MainMan for the CBS release they thought that it wasn’t. I’m told that the levels on that recording aren’t very good, especially on the bass and the drums. But we certainly had a lot of our own ideas. That was my first album, so I didn’t know anything about recording, really, and the other guys in the band weren’t really that technically proficient.

Recording-wise, we did that ourselves with an engineer from Columbia, in CBS Studios in London. And they made overtures to us, but we just kind of pretended we didn’t hear them. “David Bowie was producing a lot of bands back then, like Mott The Hoople and so on. And soon the album found itself linked to MainMan’s top artist. Now armed with Raw Power and a set of other equally powerful tunes, The Stooges set out to lay down the tracks that would become the Raw Power album. “I don’t know what any of these lyrics are about.” The title track might be one of The Stooges’ best-known songs, but don’t ask Williamson to explain what the lyrics are about.