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Can You Hear Me
Take It In Right (early studio version). Can You Hear Me. Can You Hear Me (live, 1974). Can You Hear Me (with Cher, broadcast, 1975). Bowie likely wrote “Can You Hear Me,” originally called “Take It...
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Young Americans
Young American (take 3, fragment). Young Americans. Young Americans (live, 1974). Young Americans (The Dick Cavett Show, 1974). Young Americans (live, 1983). Young Americans (live, 1987). Young...
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Somebody Up There Likes Me
Somebody Up There Likes Me. Somebody Up There Likes Me (live, 1974). ‘Somebody Up There Likes Me’ is a ‘Watch out mate, Hitler’s on his way back’… it’s your rock and roll sociological bit. David...
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Right
Right (“Never No Turnin’ Back,” early take). Right. Near the end of Alan Yentob’s documentary Cracked Actor, Bowie is filmed rehearsing a new song. Luther Vandross, Robin Clark and Ava Cherry are...
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Fascination
Funky Music (Is a Part of Me), Mike Garson Band with Luther Vandross (live, 1974). Funky Music, Luther Vandross, 1976. Fascination. The Sigma Sound sessions of August 1974 didn’t produce enough for an...
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Win
Win. Win (live, 1974). The best of Young Americans‘ tortured soul ballads, “Win,” an abstracted dissection of a relationship, is Bowie’s most successful attempt to use the sound of contemporary...
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Across The Universe
Across the Universe. Bowie’s cover of John Lennon’s “Across the Universe” was a blatant, and successful, attempt to lure Lennon into the studio. Bowie and Lennon had first met in late 1974 at a small...
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Fame
Fame (Soul Train). Fame (broadcast, Cher, 1975). James Brown, Hot (I Need to Be Loved Loved Loved), 1976. Fame (live, 1976). Fame (live, 1978). Fame (live, 1983). Fame (live, 1990). Fame (live, 2000)....
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Reissues: Win
Readers of Mojo have likely seen the article that I wrote for them this month (a preview here). Though commissioned to coincide with the announcement of The Gouster as part of the upcoming Bowie boxed...
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