FAME

Created on 19/04/2005
Latest update on 13/12/2023

Artist: David Bowie
Author: David Bowie/Carlos Alomar/John Lennon
Label: RCA
Year: 1975

It's a co-write with John Lennon indeed (see also: Across The Universe).

Covers:

1975:

James Brown [Carlos Alomar's guitar riff in Hot (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved); played Fame as a lead for his musicians right before the session]

1981:

Duran Duran

2002:

Tommy Lee [in film The Banger Sisters]

2005:

Eurythmics

Sample victim #1 James Brown sampled too. Luckily he didn't have a hit with it, otherwise Bowie would have to sue him. As a member of the Apollo Theatre houseband, Carlos did session work for James (Licking Stick - '68).

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