David Bowie - Fame (1975)
It was supposed to be just the cover of a forgotten song from the '60s.
Then, from a spontaneous studio jam, a "funk style" riff, and a chance meeting between David Robert Jones and Sir John Winston Ono Lennon, everything changed.
That's how "Fame" was born, one of the most important songs in Bowie's career, lasting only three and a half minutes.
In the studio there's also Carlos Alomar, guitarist and Bowie’s collaborator. He's the one who brings that riff which will become the starting point of the jam. From that moment the structure of the cover is abandoned, the groove becomes more funk, more personal, more direct. It's no longer a reinterpretation, now it's something completely new.
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