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 ...

Jay-Z took Bowie’s classic Fame and turned it into one of the most powerful tracks on The Blueprint, proving his sampling ...

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 ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

The legendary artists was known to interpret other people's material. — -- David Bowie's impact on future generations of musicians artists is immeasurable. His sound and style can be found in ...

RECORDING WEEK 2025: Nobody would deny that David Bowie was one of music’s most influential pioneers. Yet, while a commonly-held misconception would dub Bowie as pop’s trend-aware ‘chameleon’, some of ...

I won’t belabor this point. If David Bowie isn’t the most influential artist in the history of post-war pop music, he is at least on Mount Rushmore, along with Chuck Berry, Elvis, Lennon/McCartney, ...

David Bowie had to have been tempted to sustain the character he’d formulated on the 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars on his next release. And perhaps he might ...

The Man Who Sold The World arrived in the United States on November 4, 1970. Mercury Records would release it in the U.K. on ...