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 ...

As Lennon told Bob Harris on The Old Grey Whistle Test, “I got to know David through Mick [Jagger], really. Although I’d met him once before. And next minute, he says, ‘Hello, John, I’m doing ‘Across ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago, the United States had never seen anything quite like David Bowie. In the early ’70s, the Londoner gained fame in his home country with his flamboyant alter ego Ziggy Stardust, an ...