Bang Bang (Iggy Pop song)

"Bang Bang"
Single by Iggy Pop
from the album Party
B-side"Sea of Love"
ReleasedMay 1981
Recorded1981
StudioRecord Plant, New York City
Genre
Length4:08
LabelArista
Songwriter(s)Iggy Pop, Ivan Kral
Producer(s)Thom Panunzio
Tommy Boyce
Iggy Pop singles chronology
"Knocking 'em Down (In The City)"
(1980)
"Bang Bang"
(1981)
"Pumpin' For Jill"
(1981)

"Bang Bang" is a song written by Iggy Pop and Ivan Kral in 1981 for Pop's Party album. It was released as a single, charting at No. 35 on the Billboard Club Play Singles chart. According to Pop's autobiography I Need More, he wrote "Bang Bang" as Arista Records wanted a single and he promised them a commercial album. He originally wanted Phil Spector or Mike Chapman to produce the song. Instead, songwriter Tommy Boyce was brought in. Pop claimed he got the idea for the song from reading The Right Stuff at a local bookstore.