"Blah-Blah-Blah" is the seventh studio album by American musician Iggy Pop, released in September 1986 on A&M Records. It is Pop's most commercially successful album, following a four-year hiatus, with David Bowie as his primary collaborator for this project, marking their final collaboration. A successful tour followed the album's release.
The album features a cover of Johnny O'Keefe's "Wild One," retitled "Real Wild Child (Wild One)," along with three original songs co-written with former Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones. The remaining tracks were co-written by Bowie, who produced the album with David Richards but did not play any instruments, contributing only backing vocals. Bowie biographer David Buckley noted that Pop "virtually disowned" the record, describing it as "a Bowie album in all but name." It remains unclear which tracks, if any, originated from the sessions for Bowie's 1984 album Tonight, as Hugh Padgham, the album's co-producer, recalled that Bowie and Pop worked on some songs together that were ultimately not included.
"Real Wild Child" reached No. 27 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock charts and became Pop's first Top 10 hit in the UK. The song was featured in the soundtracks for the 1988 film Crocodile Dundee II and the 1990 film Pretty Woman, as well as the Problem Child films, and it has been the opening theme for the Australian ABC TV music block rage since its launch in 1987. Other singles from the album include "Cry for Love," "Isolation," and "Shades." "Cry for Love," described by Rolling Stone as "a ripping fusion of classic Iggy rage, Bowie cabaret, and unexpected romantic vulnerability," reached No. 19 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music chart and No. 34 on the Mainstream Rock charts.
