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I added a note about the relationship of this song to James Brown's "Hot (I Need to Be Loved...)" It was an observation already made in the entry for Brown. The language is a bit weasely, and the note about the plundering is arguably superfluous, but I feel these are meaningful here, certainly the uncanny (re-)borrowing of the entire substance of the music and production. Feel free to reword, of course. bntrpy 20:00, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
I removed that part, as it was unsourced and a pretty serious accusation. Zeldafanjtl ( talk) 18:06, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
--The Wikipedia article for the James Brown song Hot (I Need to Be Loved, Loved, Loved) mentions that the riff was borrowed from "Fame".
The intro to "Fame" was sampled and used as the intro for "Get Loose" off of the 2010 album, "Revolutions per Minute" by Reflection Eternal. I am not familiar with the formatting of the pages and was not sure how to edit it correctly, but if anyone wants to add this, do so. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:1:9C80:3FB:8122:F0C0:CAF6:4D00 ( talk) 19:57, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
What is the timing on this song? It sounds like 7/8.-- 134.134.139.76 ( talk) 16:04, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
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US RCA released this sooner than 25 July 1975. This is borne out by reviews of this single in the 14 June 1975 issue of Billboard, and in the 21 June 1975 issues of Cash Box and Record World. However, UK RCA issued this on 18 July, no doubt in the wake of the US release. – Wbwn ( talk) 23:27, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
However, the book "David Bowie: The Golden Years" by Roger Griffin (link: https://books.google.com/books?id=EKE2DQAAQBAJ&pg=PT368&lpg=PT368&dq=David+Bowie+Fame+PB-10320+release+date&source=bl&ots=BSmE4S39Us&sig=ACfU3U2-HM7B92vwPB9bNbx8h7-othxR7w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiuj9_x4rDwAhUHF1kFHV20DWgQ6AEwCnoECBUQAw#v=onepage&q=David%20Bowie%20Fame%20PB-10320%20release%20date&f=false ) lists the US PB-10320's release date as 2 June 1975. Again, the UK release date was 18 July. – Wbwn ( talk) 19:38, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
There is a paragraph talking about an animation from 1975 featuring the song, but it is in the Fame '90 section. Am I just reading it wrong or should it be moved Pasta 4431 ( talk) 16:51, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
Cool, thanks. Pasta 4431 ( talk) 18:51, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
Hey Zmbro. I grabbed some books off my shelf that will help provide more on how this song fits in the context of John's career at that point. A few things:
David rang and told me he was going to do a version of 'Across The Universe' and I thought 'great' because I'd never done a good version of that song myself. It's one of my favourite songs, but I didn't like my version of it. So I went down and played rhythm on the track. Then he got this lick, so me and him put this together in another song called 'Fame' ... I had fun!
Despite John's flippant dismissal of the glam rock scene that Bowie embodied during his early successes in the decade ("It's just rock and roll with lipstick on it"), and his on-air joke at Bowie's expense (reading a commercial for a club offering a "ladies night" during a disc jockeying session, Lennon observed, "Good! Bowie can get in"), the two would converse at length on the conundrum of fame – how attaining it obsessed you when you lacked it and what a burden it was when you achieved it.
... Given the chance to jam, John would always revert to the '50s-era songs of his youth, warning the studio players around him that he really didn't know anything released after 1963. It so happened that Bowie guitarist Carlos Alomar had been playing around with a riff inspired by the Flares' 1961 hit, "Foot-stomping."
As Alomar tinkered, Lennon – as was his wont – yelled out whatever came into his head. His repeated shout of "aim!" caught Bowie's ever-attentive ears that way it fell into place against the melody. With the addition of an "f" before it – Bowie has contradicted himself as to whose idea it was – the whole idea of the song as a vehicle for commenting on the topic suggested itself. The singer quickly say down to scribble down some lyrics, tapping his recollection of the conversations that he and John had had on the subject, while Lennon worked out a chord arrangement to support Alomar's guitar line. [5]
Those are some of the differences I noticed between our sources. Context wise, several of my sources discuss how Bowie and Lennon's collaboration came at a particularly productive time for John – coinciding with Walls and Bridges, lots of TV and radio appearance, along with what was nearly his only post-Beatles collaboration with McCartney – before his return to Yoko in early-'75 resulted in him putting everything on hold for the next five years. [6] [7] [8] [9] Anyway, that's probably enough for now. Tkbrett (✉) 18:23, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
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