Iggy Pop revealed that David Bowie was part of the inspiration for his new album Post Pop Depression.

Pop explained that before he went into the studio with Josh Homme, the album's producer, he sent him notes recalling the period in the mid-1970s he spent recording in Berlin with the late Bowie.

"I sent Josh some poetry, which I wrote specifically for him as an audience," Pop tells EW.

"I sent a kind of comedy routine for his entertainment called German Trivia, in which I said 'Hey, Josh, do you know what they call a dick in Germany?

It's a schwanz! And I sent him what I would call detailed technical info about the making of The Idiot and Lust For Life, the two albums I made in that country under the direction of David Bowie.

So, like, 'I said, 'Okay, here's how this song goes,' and then he said, 'Well, here is a melodic hook,' and he played the guitar,' and so on.

Just the facts! There was a little bit in German Trivia describing the cabarets and discos that I used to go to in Berlin, and most of the time when I went out to them, it was me and David Bowie and a couple of other people."

Pop released Post Pop Depression on March 18.