The fact that this was standard fare for top 40 radio back in its day is just more proof how much better "mainstream" music was in those days. In my completely biased opinion.

@L33Reacts

3 ай бұрын

Yeah yall had it so good back then... 😩

@Kevin6059

3 ай бұрын

@@L33Reacts I saw Bowie in a great venue on his Reality Tour. He played for 3 hours. It was awesome.

@stevedahlberg8680

3 ай бұрын

As a 60 year old who has played in bands my whole life and studied music going all the way back, yeah, there's a lot of drek around, but there always was. I keep finding fantastic new stuff that's happening all the time. That's why I get so tired of hearing this sentiment. I think it would be more accurate to say that the way things were back then with everybody really either being good at what they played and it was just in a cauldron of competition and Innovation and creativity that was changing so rapidly, there was room for that even in the late sixties to be a little different and break the rules and Elvis basically did that in 1955 if you really want to think of it that way. But really, that attitude ultimately led to punk rock music and all the various forms of it that influence so much music and crossed way into the mainstream in a watered-down form ultimately, and then you had the rise of Hip Hop and that has its own incredible origin and evolution story. There is so much else out there, it's a shame to think of the 70s music is only being the good music. It's good and Superior in so many ways. But it's not the only thing.

@HT-io1eg

2 ай бұрын

@@stevedahlberg8680I agree. I buy new music, quality is timeless and it’s out there. The chart these days is however not great. I think it’s the ratio of great to good to crap. The mix is way off, tonnes of great stuff never gets into the chart which is top heavy with, frankly, crap

@dsfddsgh

2 ай бұрын

To be honest though there was also a lot of dreck on top 40 radio even back in the 70's. It's just that the good stuff is soooo superior to the crap that music has become for the last 20+ years that music from that era stands out. The last good decade of music was the 1990's when you still had a variety of music to listen to that was actually good. Now it seems like every top 40 song on the charts needs 8 people to write shitty these songs.

This was the first "cool" song I recall hearing on the radio as a kid.

@L33Reacts

3 ай бұрын

Definitely cool. Makes you feel like a badass 😆

You know that's John Lennon doing the background vocals.

@nyzywok5439

3 ай бұрын

bien sûr !

Yeah, this one sort of separated the 'cool kids' from the rest when it came out. During the early-mid 70's, Bowie had an edge that made him slightly unsavory to middle America. But his popularity just pushed him into mass awareness. A year after this he appeared on Dinah Shore's daytime show, fer crissakes!

Bowie lured Lennon into the studio by telling him he was doing a cover of Across the Universe, which actually hadn't been planned. During the session, a riff happened and Lennon started singing "aim" and it went from there.

@camhain7643

2 ай бұрын

The riff didn't "happen" though, it was a riff that was done for Bowie's cover of Foot stompin' during the Diamond Dogs/Soul Tour, which Bowie didn't want to waste on just that cover as he thought it was quite good.

Lwnnon is also the backing vocal ("fame, fame...")

Stay with this album and bleed it dry. "Win", "Fascination" and especially "Right" are some of his best work and he was totally strung out on coke most of the time. The lineup of backup singers and musicians is sick. He really dug into funk and absolutely owned it. He was off his gourd and did some work that would have been impossible otherwise at great cost. He doesn't remember a lot of this album or Station to Station. We do. They are my favorites outside of Hunky Dory. Everybody's got their tastes, n'est pas? The title track kicks ass as well.

@ignatzmuskrat3000

2 ай бұрын

Yah. Philly soul period with a young american Luther Vandross on backing vocals.

I was nine years old in 1975 when I begged my grandmother for this album for Christmas. As a British expat she obliged. I listened to this song on repeat for a long, long time!

Lennon had a great solo career going until 75, then he went into retirement to raise his son Sean. Right when he started his comeback in 80 he was murdered 😪

I've been a fan of Bowie since I was a teenager and nearly 67 now and still love his early stuff.

@Joshualuv13

18 күн бұрын

Same .❤

Carlos came up with the riff when working with Bowie on a cover of The Flares' Footstompin' which they performed throughout the Soul Tour of 1974. It is alleged that there are studio recordings of this track, but they were said to be incomplete. The best known recording of it was from Bowie's appearance on the Dick Cavett Show. Lennon really liked the riff, and helped Carlos and Bowie turn it into Bowie's first US #1 single.

From my coming of age era. I graduated high school in 1975. Like this tune, I still hold up!

Lennon sings the high "Fame!" throughout.

Please do FASHION!!

@CatherinePearl100

2 ай бұрын

LOVE that song!

I agree with you, great pick, I knew you'd love it! Carlos Alomar was the guitarist for the Apollo Theatre house band and played with James Brown for a while. He is the one musician who played on the most Bowie albums, another claim to FAME. Some further Bowie suggestions: from the Young Americans album, Fascination and Somebody Up There Likes Me, Life on Mars, Let's Dance, China Doll, Suffragette City, Changes, Panic in Detroit, Alladin Sane... I can go on and on.

This was Bowie's first #1 hit in the US & also the last track to be added to Young Americans. Bowie & Lennon wrote this song on a whim. One of the most iconic riffs in modern music for sure.

Lennon is singing all of the high note "Fame's"

Speaking of changes you should try "Changes" by Bowie. Interesting lyrics.

This 8-track was in heavy rotation in my 'Stang in ''76

One of my favourite Bowie tracks Love those dirty, dusty, grinding, driving riffs Funky, trancey, timelessly cool 😎

I recommend you listen to the track WIN from the same album.

This song is basically my introduction to Bowie because I had never heard his name mentioned before until this one came out in 1975. I was 15. I have heard Space oddity before rthis but never knew who performed it until then. I guess you could call this one of his fun song, but a funky fun!

Bowie, Fripp and Eno together on HEROS, one of Bowies most famous. Put together by ENo, who also plays synth. Fripp does Fripp, and Bowie sings

There is a song "Right" that is outstanding if you like Soul Music. It is off this Young Americans album.

Ooh, didn't know you did Fame! One of my many favorites of his. Having John doing all the high background 'fame's was awesome too. There is just so much to do with Bowie, as much as there is with the Beatles, really. I'm the same with music, Lee. if i've heard something before I will remember it forever. There are songs I haven't heard since I was a kid, and it comes on and I know every note and word immediately. Can't wait until you hear a lot more of Bowie. He was so special. Damn, that Lee guy picks some great songs!

Glam rock with a big side of funk.

"Option paralysis" ... what a great term.

Dennis Davis was incredible! There is a clip on YT of Tony Visconti showing Dennis Davis’ son the isolated Look Back in Anger drums. So good!

Bowie had styles...nice one this.

Great Bowie song. This was co-written and performed by John Lennon as you mentioned (love him doing background vocals). John also did some songs with Elton John.

@suz5862

3 ай бұрын

Lennon’s contribution to the songwriting was limited to coming up with the word “Aim” as the title. Bowie changed it to “Fame”. 😉

Saw this concert at the Philly Spectrum. It was great!

You need to understand that Robert Fripp was on Heroes and Adrian Belew on Lodger. Low, that was the anti-station the station. Why? The title track of StS is two separate songs tacked together. Low has short, like really short songs. Breaking Glass is less than 2 minutes and I’d have it on repeat for hours. I think you’d enjoy the chords of Be My Wife on Low.

@L33Reacts

3 ай бұрын

I know that Adrian and Fripp both worked with him! I just haven't gotten there yet lol probably headed to Lodger after this unless someone requests something different!

@vegdagol2843

3 ай бұрын

If you are heading to Lodger “Look Back in Anger” is a great pick for some of the best drumming Dennis Davis did for Bowie, but also Alomar’s rhythm guitar solo.

@janewells5970

3 ай бұрын

True, but Adrian toured trip. If not, so a lot of the videos out there have Adrian playing

@James-hd6ez

3 ай бұрын

​@@L33ReactsThe " Berlin trilogy " is Bowie at his best for me "Heroes, Low and Lodger....then he hits 1980 with "Scarey Monsters " another majestic album....then the big money arrived but his artistic brilliance suddenly disappeared, although his last two Albums he put out before he died did show him on a comeback with classic Bowie in "The Next day " and "Blackstar" Two Legends we sadly miss in Bowie and Lennon.

@anthonymckeever6626

3 ай бұрын

​@@L33Reacts Please don't do Lodger next. Infinitely the weakest of the three albums in the trilogy, and one of his weakest albums overall imo. So much better albums of Bowies to go to next

I love this song and the funk grove. 🎶🎶🎶👍

An awesome track! Does Bowie deliver....? Oh, yessssss :)

This album was recorded in my city Philly at Sigma Sound Studios. Still have my album. ✌️♥️🎶

Seriously, one of the best Bowie songs. I like John Lennon’s backup vocals as well. Thanks.

If you liked this, you have to do Golden Years, my favorite Bowie song. Bowie’s one of those artists that I respect the hell out of, but just never got into that much, but there’s still a good amount of his songs that I like. Another great Lennon collaboration is Whatever Gets You Through the Night with Elton John. One of the most difficult things that I daily try to reckon with is the fact that my life is not about me, but all the people I am in relationships with or come in contact with and how I can positively impact their lives.

so weird - as a kid my first time hearing a lot of these songs was laying in bed at night listening to a cheap AM radio on side of my bed

For more of the 'everybody's a star' theme - check out Celluloid Heroes by the Kinks.

Andy Warhol: "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes". Andy and David had a fraught relationship. Maybe the 3 Ziggy persona albums are a good swingback before pressing on with "this" Bowie. "Hunky Dory", "Ziggy Stardust", "Aladdin Sane" - I don't know, I'm 73, that's how I lived it. Just saw Earl Slick playing with The Cure last summer. You never know.

😊 this is my favorite Bowie song

LOVE ME SOME BOWIE!!! :) He was SO CREATIVE! Loved Diamond Dogs, Space Oddity, Let's Dance: ALL his stuff!! :) ENJOY!!!

To me, "personalized entertainment" = "bubble filter".

There’s a 70s music called Fame. I don’t think they use this song in it but the movie is very good. It’s about high school students who are talented in dance and music . It shows their struggles as they try to make their way up the ladder to fame.

Ha.. when I was 16, we had a HS dance routine to this... lol.... appreciate your listen!

The groove in undeniable.

Undeniable groove

Funkiest song ever .

Music is very healing when you are down. Keep it up!

Great rant on social media!

Missed the premiere due to yet more Easter holiday traipsing. Of course, it’s brilliant. ❤ Good analysis 😊

Good reaction again young fella. I’m going to steal your line and claim it as my own (sue me) “Too many people believe they are the lead character in their life but in reality,they are just another extra” Paraphrasing,but cheers for the idea bruv. Could I suggest from the master that is Bowie a short live performance on The Old Grey Whistle Test (an essential music tv slot that ran from 1971 - about mid 90’s) called Queen Bitch. You’ll love it guaranteed. By the way,if you want,in your own time have a look at OGWT performances,there are hundreds and hundreds of them. Well worth a butchers hook (butchers hook = look)

Let’s Dance

This was Bowie's biggest US hit I believe.

If you haven't heard Iggy Pop' 'Lust For Life' album, check it out! Lyrics by Iggy, music by Bowie and awesome Bowie backing vocals. It's an Iggy masterpiece.

Bowie's first no. 1 in the US, IIRC. James Brown (in whose band Carlos Alamar had played) ripped off the riff for his single 'Hot'. DB didn't sue.

there is also a remix of this song _Fame 96

John Lennon was perhaps the most famous man in the world since 1965. It was much smaller back then.

I notice, over your right shoulder, a stellar CD by Jethro Tull called "Warchild". Perhaps?

@L33Reacts

3 ай бұрын

Yup! We just did it on patreon in the past month. Sadly it was blocked on here

Check out his live version of Scary Monsters!

Fame is a well known song appearing in films commercials and not least in other songs (samples) So yes you have probably heard the riff from: (found a list) Jay Z “Takeover” Public Enemy “Night of the Living Baseheads” MC Lyte “Put It On You” Ice Cube's "Alive On Arrival" EPMD's "It Wasn’t Me, It Was The Fame" Dr. Dre’s “Fame” James Brown “Hot (I Need to Be Loved, Loved, Loved)”

@L33Reacts

3 ай бұрын

Yeah I have heard that riff somewhere... probably a movie or somewhere. It's sounded iconic off rip to me so i"m guessing I've heard it a lot lol

Glad to hear you like Pokémon. It's my passion. Also music.

As you surpass 20K, take this sage pick to be of sound advice. But seriously, you’re doing great being your admirable self, and this is a fun hit. Can’t wait until you get to Lodger.

@L33Reacts

3 ай бұрын

Lol absolutely... I think I talk about what your getting at in the video too.

Well given your introduction you maybe need to do the wonderful track "Changes". That's if you haven't done it yet

Listen to “The Man Who Sold the World”. It’s really great.

☮️💙💙💙🔥🔥😎

Dude. You have to listen to the album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.” It’s the album that made him internationally famous. Especially IMOP the songs Five Years, Starman, Ziggy Stardust & Suffragette City. Albums about societal & ecological disaster on earth and an alien being rockstar comes to save us.

@tomhennessy131

3 ай бұрын

Btw he was still in his rock/glam rock phase during Ziggy. Could be your favorite Bowie album.

John Lennon plays rhythm guitar on the song.

Live version with Adrian Belew, Alomar and Davis kzread.info/dash/bejne/gISMmKyJeLXTcqQ.htmlfeature=shared

Internet sez: "Yes The answer to the user query is yes, KZread is social media. KZread is a social media platform that allows user-generated content, interaction, personalization, networking, and the potential for viral content. KZread is not just a part of social media, but a social media behemoth that any marketer should recognize."

@L33Reacts

3 ай бұрын

KZread doesn't have a friends or messaging system. It's not social media like Facebook or Instagram. But it is social and media. Just not "social media" like Facebook or the site formally known as Twitter. You can subscribe to channels you like, but it's not like you message them or have them as a friend. If anything, my channel is like social media because I actually interact with yall lol

@MisterWondrous

3 ай бұрын

@@L33Reacts No it's more anonymous than Facebook and far more entertaining than Twitter or X. Like Facebook, it offers the opportunity for virtual communities, such as you have here. I had to look it up on several platforms to understand what is, today, considered social media, but I had just assumed it to be social media, or both social and media, two-way, read-write rather than read and then read more media...as Chad Hurley envisioned it back before he became out-of-sight rich. Not a big deal. I dislike most of what is now social media. It is the people and not the owners after all. Ooks...I hear the premiere starting...

Camera filter?

I'm a new sub have you reacted to Adam Rupp's drum solo ? it's the best .

@L33Reacts

3 ай бұрын

hello! no I have not. is it recent?

@tammyslavens3687

3 ай бұрын

@@L33Reacts It's been reacted to for a while now he is amazing he's with homefree the acappela group

English acts like Bowie and Elton John would drop in on John Lennon when they were in New York. Elton bet John Lennon that they would record a number 1 each together. That happened and so john had to go on stage with Elton to pay the debt. From memory Lennon's song knocked Elton's off the number 1 position. So John Lennon was still having hits in the 70's.

Hate that song