Spring 1974: David Bowie enters the RCA office in Manhattan to produce a couple of tracks for Lulu, the Scottish singer coming off the success of the James Bond theme song, “The Man With the Golden ...
When Carlos Alomar talks about the 50th anniversary of “Young Americans” — David Bowie’s self-defined ode to “plastic soul,” released March 7, 1975, and re-released today by Rhino/Parlophone — it’s ...
Missing in action bassist George Murray on recording David Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy in the 1970s, and revisiting them live with ...
While he rarely wrote tunes for other artists in the 1970s, John Lennon co-wrote David Bowie’s “Fame.” The tune’s other writer said that it was inspired by a 1960s doo-wop classic. Today, that doo-wop ...
*Hip Hop producers have a long, proud history of snatching breaks, choruses, baselines and ad libs from James Brown, so it’s a bit hard to believe that the funk innovator would’ve ever borrowed any ...
Two classic rock stars helped write David Bowie’s “Fame”: Bowie himself and John Lennon. Looking back on the song, Bowie said it was inspired by John’s attitude toward art. Both rock stars were part ...
That image was likely the album’s artwork by artist Guy Peellaert which depicted Bowie as a half-human, half-dog sideshow act. “I had heard ‘Space Oddity,’ [it’s] a nice song, but I hadn’t really ...