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 ...

David Bowie revised his career so many times that it should surprise absolutely nobody that he reworked his first No. 1 hit a decade and a half later. Co-written by John Lennon, who also provides ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “’Fame’ is a vapid, hostile lament against money-grabbers and success-hungry mouth-breathers. Not only has it become this colossal ...

David Bowie is nervous. He's in uncharted territory. That's nothing new. He's spent basically his entire career in uncharted territory. But when you're a white British rock star who's stumbled his way ...

With its grey front door and battered picket fence, No. 4 Plaistow Grove in the anonymous London suburb of Bromley is unremarkable in every way except for one. The modest terraced house -- originally ...

In 1975, David Bowie moved away from his glam rock persona with the song “Fame.” The funk rock classic from Bowie’s ninth studio album, Young Americans, hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on September ...