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“Fashion”
“Fashion” cover
Single by David Bowie
from the album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
B-side "Scream Like a Baby"
Released 24 October 1980
Format 7" single
Recorded Power Station, New York
Good Earth, London
February-April 1980
Genre Rock, New Wave
Length 3:23 (7" single edit)
4:46 (Full-length album version)
Label RCA Records
BOW 7
Producer David Bowie, Tony Visconti
David Bowie singles chronology
"Ashes to Ashes"
(1980)		 "Fashion"
(1980)		 "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)"
(1981)
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) track listing
"Ashes to Ashes"
(4)		 "Fashion"
(5)		 "Teenage Wildlife"
(6)

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Contents

Music and lyrics

According to co-producer Tony Visconti, "Fashion" was the last song completed in the Scary Monsters sessions, its bassline and some of the melody taking inspiration from Bowie's 1975 hit "Golden Years". Anthony Visconti (born April 24, 1944) is an American Record producer and sometimes a Musician or Singer. " Golden Years " is a song written by David Bowie in 1975 [2] Guest guitarist Robert Fripp contributed a series of harsh, mechanical riffs to complement the band's funk/reggae arrangement. Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946 in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England) is a Guitarist, Composer and a Record Funk is an American musical style that originated in the mid- to late-1960s when African American musicians blended Soul music, Soul Reggae is a Music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s

The track was notable for its emotionally vacant choir effect, and the recurring onomatopoeia "beep beep" that Bowie had first used in an unreleased 1970 song called "Rupert the Riley". Onomatopoeia (also spelled onomatopœia, from Greek: ονοματοποιΐα is a Word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing [3] Another phrase Bowie borrowed from his past was "People from Bad Homes", the title track of a 1973 album he recorded with his proteges, The Astronettes, that went unreleased until 1995. People from Bad Homes is an album released by The Astronettes. [4]

References to a "goon squad" coming to town provoked theories that the song actually concerns fascism ("the National Front invade the discos", inferred NME critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray). Fascism is a totalitarian nationalist and corporatist ideology The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a Popular music Magazine in the United Kingdom which has been Roy Carr is an English Music Journalist. He joined the New Musical Express (NME in the 1960s and has edited NME, Charles Shaar Murray (born 1951 is an English Music Journalist. [1] However Bowie played down this interpretation in an interview shortly before the release of Scary Monsters, saying that what he was trying to do was "move on a little from that Ray Davies concept of fashion, to suggest more of a gritted teeth determination and an unsuredness about why one's doing it". Ray Davies CBE (born Raymond Douglas Davies, 21 June 1944, Fortis Green, London) is an English rock [5] Biographer David Buckley believed the song "poked fun at the banality of the dance-floor and the style fascists" of the New Romantic movement. New Romantic was a short- lived Fashion and music movement that occurred primarily in the United Kingdom and Ireland during the very early 1980s [3]

Video

David Mallet shot a promotional clip for the single in Manhattan utilising one of the sets from the film Christiane F., featuring Bowie performing while a group of emotionless fans robotically re-enact his every move. David Mallet is a director particularly noted for his work on Music videos including David Bowie 's innovative " Ashes to Ashes " and Queen Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York Christiane F - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 1970s following tape recordings of Christiane F Amid a series of facial contortions and other gestures, Bowie made use of a move he had employed in the "Ashes to Ashes" video: slowly crouching and bringing his arm down to the ground in a slow vertical arc. Record Mirror readers voted "Fashion" and "Ashes to Ashes" the best music videos of 1980. Record Mirror was a national tabloid consumer weekly pop music newspaper founded by Isadore Green in 1953 then priced 6d (2½p in decimal currency featuring news articles interviews [2]

Release and aftermath

"Fashion" was the second single from Scary Monsters and the first issued after the album's September 1980 release. The edited 7" cut reached #5 in the UK, and by hitting #70 in America gave Bowie his first chart single there for four years. The UK sleeve design was adapted for the cover art on the 1980 compilation Best of Bowie. The Best of Bowie is a David Bowie Compilation album released in 1980 [1] The song has since been performed on several tours.

Track listing

  1. "Fashion" (Bowie) – 3:23
  2. "Scream Like a Baby" (Bowie) – 3:35

The Japan release of the single had "It's No Game (No. " Scream Like a Baby " is a song written by David Bowie that appears on the 1980 album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps. " It's No Game " is a song written by David Bowie for the 1980 album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps, featuring lead Guitar played 1)" as the B-side.

Production credits

Other releases

Cover versions

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Roy Carr & Charles Shaar Murray (1981). Joey Negro is the pseudonym of British DJ and House music producer Dave Lee, born on the Isle of Wight. Roy Carr is an English Music Journalist. He joined the New Musical Express (NME in the 1960s and has edited NME, Charles Shaar Murray (born 1951 is an English Music Journalist. Bowie: An Illustrated Record: pp. 113-114
  2. ^ a b c Nicholas Pegg (2000). Nicholas Pegg is a British actor director and writer His acting work in the theatre includes productions for Nottingham Playhouse, Scottish Opera, The Complete David Bowie: pp. 75-76
  3. ^ a b David Buckley (1999). Strange Fascination - David Bowie: The Definitive Story: pp. 372-374
  4. ^ David Buckley (1999). Ibid: p. 207
  5. ^ Angus MacKinnon (1980). "The Future Isn't What It Used to Be". NME (13 September 1980): p. The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a Popular music Magazine in the United Kingdom which has been Events 509 BC - The Temple of Jupiter on Rome 's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) 37

References

Pegg, Nicholas, The Complete David Bowie, Reynolds & Hearn Ltd, 2000, ISBN 1-903111-14-5

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