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Fame, lets him loose, hard to swallow
Fame, puts you there where things are hollow
Fame
Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame
That burns your change to keep you insane
Fame
Fame, what you like is in the limo
Fame, what you get is no tomorrow
Fame, what you need you have to borrow
Fame
Fame, "Nien! It's mine!" is just his line
To bind your time, it drives you to crime
Fame
''Could it be the best, could it be?
Really be, really, babe?
Could it be, my babe, could it, babe?
Really, really?''
Is it any wonder I reject you first?
Fame, fame, fame, fame
Is it any wonder you are too cool to fool?
Fame
Fame, bully for you, chilly for me
Got to get a rain check on pain
Fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame, fame, fame
Fame
What's your name?
''Get me some, fame
Now get-ah, fame''
Play this L O U D!
Well.. if you insist!
What a change from the music of just 15 years earlier, when everyone was doing the Peppermint Twist and the Mashed Potato. It's interesting how rock music progressed so quickly.
Society was changing almost as quickly, too.
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You're not dreaming. This is a Bowie, Alomar, Lennon composition. John inspired the theme and helped a little with lyrics and I think music.
Carlos provided the rhythmic hook, which was later borrowed for a James Brown tune.
... and John can clearly be heard singing backup, too.
Your not dreaming. This is a Bowie, Alomar, Lennon composition. John inspired the theme and helped a little with lyrics and Ithink music.
Carlos provided the rhythmic hook, which was later borrowed for a James Brown tune.
You're
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Dennis Davis was a genius and is my favorite drummer by far.
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...said nobody, ever.
So I change to 3 and Skip
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I think Hit no. 1 happens when it's mainstream, or vice-versa.
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Got to get a rain check on pain
some great phrasing in there DB!
What you like is in the limo
Remember that time Dave lip-synced horribly to this on "Soul Train"?
Remember that?
That WASN'T awesome...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy80bUKt54I
Slightly obscure Chris Farley reference: Not missed!
One of James Brown's most famous songs and now this - with a riff from NYC guitar man Carlos Alomar that James borrowed later that year for "Hot (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved)", Ironically Carlos had played with James in the 60s.
sucks like hell, even if it s David bowie
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Remember that time Dave lip-synced horribly to this on "Soul Train"?
Remember that?
That WASN'T awesome...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy80bUKt54I
drug addiction. song w/overlapping vox and efx doomed from the start in any event.
V&A originally I think I'm right in saying bowie got the inspiration for the song from listening to the song "Shame Shame Shame " by Shirley & co 1974
Remember that time Dave lip-synced horribly to this on "Soul Train"?
Remember that?
That WASN'T awesome...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy80bUKt54I
I remember it being more fun when I saw it back then, and it is a little awkward-looking now, but still, it's not really horrible seeing it now. Just about everyone lip-synced on Soul Train back then, that's really not the best tune for doing it.
Remember that time Dave lip-synced horribly to this on "Soul Train"?
Remember that?
That WASN'T awesome...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy80bUKt54I
Your not dreaming. This is a Bowie, Alomar, Lennon composition. John inspired the theme and helped a little with lyrics and Ithink music.
Carlos provided the rhythmic hook, which was later borrowed for a James Brown tune.
Got to get a rain check on pain
some great phrasing in there DB!
Don't be so hard on yourself.
This song is still soooo good for the ears...
Go ahead. It will say more about you than the song.
bowie...not my favorite bowie tune, but damn if it isn't awesome.
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But damn close.......
Huey wrote:
Wow, thanks for that. I didn't know Salvador Dali had ever done any film. Wierd indeed. Anyone else interested? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJexaTmCVfI
Dali had worked on a few film projects; he had co-written the film named above, but it was directed by Luis Bunuel. This is still a great song after all these years.
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Probably only the music and not the album cover I suppose?
No... I'd say the music matches the album cover
Probably only the music and not the album cover I suppose?
"reject you first" according to the lyrics sites, but he's certainly not enunciating realclear izzy?!
neh, he ain't. but neither does Andrew Boid.
Is he really saying, "Is it any wonder, I reject your breast??" Or what?
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"reject you first" according to the lyrics sites, but he's certainly not enunciating realclear izzy?!
Is he really saying, "Is it any wonder, I reject your breast??" Or what?
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"you first" or as he often says live in New York "you foist"
Is he really saying, "Is it any wonder, I reject your breast??" Or what?
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Wow, thanks for that. I didn't know Salvador Dali had ever done any film. Wierd indeed. Anyone else interested? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJexaTmCVfI
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npXDtEOtA3w
Eveland wrote:
I had to look this up and loo and behold, you are correct.
Check the wikipedia entry for the album "Young Americans"
Mr. Lennon not only contributed to Fame but also "Across the Universe"
I had to look this up and loo and behold, you are correct.
Check the wikipedia entry for the album "Young Americans"
Mr. Lennon not only contributed to Fame but also "Across the Universe"
He is also on backing vocals.
RedGuitar wrote:
IIRC, this was pre-Prince. Mr. Nelson may have learned a bit from Mr. Bowie!
I think John Lennon is playing a guitar on this song...
I had to look this up and loo and behold, you are correct.
Check the wikipedia entry for the album "Young Americans"
Mr. Lennon not only contributed to Fame but also "Across the Universe"
IIRC, this was pre-Prince. Mr. Nelson may have learned a bit from Mr. Bowie!
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This song is soooo good for the ears...
Remember how stunned and amazed you were the first time you heard that synthesizer run?
EDIT: My God. I'm thinking of Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein." Well, that synthesizer was amazing.
Bowies vocal run here ain't half-bad, though. . . .
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