Bowie, Pop, and producer-engineer Colin Thurston produced "Lust for Life" under the pseudonym "Bewlay Bros.", named after the final track on Bowie's 1971 album "Hunky Dory". Pop slept little during its making, commenting "See, Bowie's a hell of a fast guy ... I realized I had to be quicker than him, otherwise whose album was it gonna be?" Pop worked frequently with the Sales brothers and Gardiner, even rejecting some musical arrangements Bowie provided him for a few tracks, including "Success". Pop prepared only fragments of lyrics before singing, and essentially improvised at the microphone. This spontaneous lyrical method inspired Bowie to improvise his own words on his next project, ""Heroes"".