Soldier is the fourth studio album by American rock singer Iggy Pop.
In Pop's biography, Matlock claims that the lead guitar was stripped after Bowie was punched by Steve New for hitting on his girlfriend of that time, Patti Palladin.
In her retrospective review, Charlotte Robinson of PopMatters wrote "Instead of a punk masterpiece, [...] Soldier turned out to be an uneven and sometimes plain silly recording.
"[7] Rolling Stone's David Fricke reviewed the album positively, calling attention to Iggy Pop's successful weathering of his own self-destructive persona.
"[8] Specific regions and the 1991 Arista CD reissue had the following alternate track order: with: Technical Trynka, P. (2007).