The Meaning Behind “Fame,” David Bowie’s First No. 1 Hit; It Followed John Lennon’s One Secret to Songwriting (and Had Lennon as Co-Writer for Good Measure)

“I’ll never forget something John Lennon told me,” David Bowie told Aussie journalist Molly Meldrum in 1983. “All you have to do is say what you mean, make it rhyme, and put a backbeat to it.” That may be an oversimplified view of songwriting, but who’s to argue with a Beatle (or David Bowie, for […]

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