john lennon wrote the song i wanna be your man for david bowie.
john lennon wrote the song i wanna be your man for david bowie.
what song did john lennon write for david bowie?
i wanna be your man
alomar met david bowie in early 1974, during sessions for lulu's recording of the bowie-penned song "can you hear me?". bowie was keen for alomar to join his band for the diamond dogs tour, but negotiations with bowie's management stalled and alomar stayed with the main ingredient. during a six-week break from his tour in mid-1974, bowie recorded a series of songs for a new album in sigma sound studios with alomar, who brought in vandross, clark, davis, and bassist emir kassan to contribute to the recordings as well. most of the material for the "young americans" album was recorded during these sessions, and alomar joined bowie for the second leg of the diamond dogs tour (dubbed "the philly dogs tour") in september–december 1974. in january 1975, bowie and john lennon recorded "across the universe" at electric lady studios and from this session resulted the impromptu song "fame", which evolved from the guitar riff alomar had originated for the song "foot stompin'" during the philly dogs shows. with writing credit divided between bowie, alomar and lennon (and funky guitar riffs later copied for james brown's 1975 recording "hot (i need to be loved)"), "fame" gave bowie his first us#1 single, and its parent album "young americans" (1975) marked carlos alomar's first appearance on a david bowie album. this began a long period of collaboration in which alomar led the rhythm section of alomar/dennis davis/george murray that would underpin bowie's recordings for the next half-decade, behind a variety of lead guitarists, including earl slick, stacey heydon, ricky gardiner, robert fripp, and adrian belew.
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yoko ono also noted bowie's friendship with herself and john lennon, and thanked him for being a "father figure" to her son following lennon's death.









































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british prime minister david cameron paid tribute to bowie, calling him "an immense british talent" and stating "musically, creatively, artistically, david bowie was a genius".









































the german foreign office tweeted "good-bye, david bowie. you are now among #heroes. thank you for helping to bring down the #wall", referencing bowie's as well as his 1987 concert near the berlin wall.
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