The Idiot is a 1977 album by Iggy Pop, his debut as a solo artist. It was the first of two LPs released that year which Pop wrote and recorded in collaboration with David Bowie. Although issued after Low, the opening installment of Bowie's so-called "Berlin Trilogy", the pair began writing and recording songs for The Idiot in mid-1976, before Bowie started work on his own album.