According to the book Bowie on Bowie: Interviews and Encounters with David Bowie, the singer discussed the origin of “Fame” in 1978. Bowie revealed a song by his guitarist, Carlos Alomar, inspired ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Luciano Viti/Getty Images By the dawn of the ’70s, though he was only 19, Carlos Alomar, ...

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 ...

David Byrne, Kimbra, and the Roots opened last night’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony with a tribute that needed no introduction: David Bowie’s “Fame.” The annual induction always ...

David Bowie's 'Fame' provides the irony-free atmosphere for a TV commercial promoting a new line of Cadillac's Escalade. It seems like the ad is illustrating how those with refined tastes have always ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: There are five books in the Jewish Torah. The Hindu god Shiva has five faces. Jesus Christ suffered the Five Wounds during crucifiction. Islam has its Five Pillars and ...

And so it's hardly surprising that the director of Bowie: Finding Fame, Francis Whately (who also made David Bowie: Five Years and David Bowie: The Last Five Years), found himself wondering if there ...

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 ...