Young Americans yielded Bowie's first US number one, " Fame ", co-written with John Lennon, who contributed backing vocals, and Carlos Alomar.

Some tracks were composed using Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies cards: " Boys Keep Swinging " entailed band members swapping instruments, " Move On " used the chords from Bowie's early composition " All the Young Dudes " played backwards, and " Red Money " took backing tracks from " Sister Midnight ", a piece previously composed with Iggy Pop.

Recently covered the Britney Spears song " Womanizer " and David Bowie's song " Sound and Vision ", featuring Girls Aloud on backing vocals, for a compilation disc marking the 40th anniversary of BBC Radio One along with other leading artists.

Brian Slade's gradually overwhelming on-stage persona of " Maxwell Demon " and his backing band, " Venus in Furs ", likewise bear a resemblance to Bowie's persona and backing band.

Mick Ronson who was at the time the lead guitarist with Bowie's band, The Spiders from Mars, played a major role in the recording of the album, serving as the co-producer and primary session musician ( contributing guitar, piano, recorder and backing vocals ) and arranger, notably the lush string arrangement for " Perfect Day ".

Bowie's song ' Heroes ' is a virtual paean to the Plank style, featuring radical sounds and dramatic alterations of sound in various elements, such as the lead vocal, to heighten the emotional or dramatic effect ; this is placed against a swirling, droning electronic backing track that interweaves elements such as multitracked synthethisers and feedback guitar.

The album was Bowie's first with the nucleus of what would become the " Spiders from Mars ", the backing band made famous by The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars in 1972.

Ronson was the lead guitarist and arranger in David Bowie's former backing band, The Spiders from Mars.

During this period, the band teamed up with producer Mark Cunningham on the first-ever BBC Children In Need single, a cover of David Bowie's " Heroes ", released in 1986 under the name of The County Line.

Tin Machine's first world tour was a commercial success, but there was growing reluctance — among fans and critics alike — to accept Bowie's presentation as merely a band member.

It shows Bowie and band miming to the record intercut with footage of Bowie's dancers The Astronettes dancing on stage and behind a back-lit screen.

It is also often erroneously said that the band took its name from a line in David Bowie's song " Ziggy Stardust ", but Bowie wrote the lyrics in 1972, four years after the release of the first Nazz album in 1968.

Vaughan was invited to join Bowie's band for the Serious Moonlight Tour, but Vaughan declined at the urging of his management.

During this period, in which the band could not release their own music owing to the legal dispute with Rhythm King, the pair undertook remix work for React 2 Rhythm, ICP, Supereal, Inner City, Sunscreem, Ultra Nate and provided two remixes to David Bowie's single Jump They Say.

Cybernauts was a side project consisting of Joe Elliott and Phil Collen teamed with members of the Spiders From Mars ( David Bowie's former band ), minus the late Mick Ronson.

Mick ' Woody ' Woodmansey, drummer with David Bowie's band the Spiders ( originally called the Hype ) from 1970, was born in Driffield.

Their last two studio albums, Using My Gills As a Roadmap ( 1998 ) and Everydaydream ( 2000 ) showed the band moving away from basic guitar rock and making greater use of electronics, citing Kraftwerk, David Bowie's Low and obscure Euro dance records as influences.

* Naked Sun, an early 1990s band most widely known for their cover of David Bowie's song Andy Warhol

Australian " spy-chedelic " indie band Major Tom & The Atoms take their band name from David Bowie's fictional character.

In a live performance with his new band Rocktopus ( now As Fast As ) on WAAF-FM, former Rustic keyboard player Spencer Albee claimed that he had been smoking David Bowie's custom-made ultra-ultra-light cigarettes, which Bowie had evidently given him during the time when they were recording Viva Nueva !.

The band recognized that some fans and critics didn't like Bowie's new role in the band.

The band was joined on this tour by guitarist Eric Schermerhorn, who would go on to play with Bowie's friend Iggy Pop.

As such, it could be a reference to the Spiders from Mars, Bowie's touring band during the Ziggy Stardust era.

Besides dramatic Italian ballads like " Anima Mia " and " Vado Via " the album includes Lyngstad's interpretations of 10cc's " The Wall Street Shuffle " and David Bowie's " Life on Mars ", sixties hits like The Beach Boys ' " Wouldn't It Be Nice " and Gary Puckett & The Union Gap's " Young Girl ", the country and western ballad " The Most Beautiful Girl ", " Send in the Clowns " from Stephen Sondheim's musical A Little Night Music as well as the Greek folk song " Siko Chorepse Syrtaki " and " Som en sparv " ( with lyrics by Swedish poet Barbro Hörberg ) originally recorded by Swedish band Wasa.

In addition to the original albums, two compilation albums have been released: Double Hipness ( 2000 ), a collection of early tracks with the 1993 reunion demos ; and Singles ( 2004 ), an extended version of Popera-The Singles Collection which caught up with post-1990 material and included the cover of Bowie's " Boys Keep Swinging ".

The video for David Bowie's 1980 UK number one single " Ashes to Ashes " included appearances by Strange with three other Blitz Kids and propelled the New Romantic movement into the mainstream.

Bowie's influences at this stage of his career included the theatrical tunes of Anthony Newley, music hall numbers by acts like Tommy Steele, some of the more whimsical and ' British ' material by Ray Davies of The Kinks, Syd Barrett's slightly cracked nursery rhymes for the early Pink Floyd, and the Edwardian flam shared by such contemporary songs as The Beatles ' " Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite ".

Some of the acts that played in this configuration included Frank Zappa in 1973, 1976 and 1977 ; David Bowie's Diamond Dogs Tour in 1974 ; Bob Marley's Natty Dread Tour in 1975 and Kaya Tour in 1978 ; Bruce Springsteen in 1976 ; Peter Gabriel's tour in 1982 and Howard Jones in 1987.

Bowie's contribution to the film included the Martian massacre scene, which was achieved with a mixture of puppets and live locusts, and model sequences of London's destruction, including the climatic scene of the crane swinging into the Martian apparition.

His performance included his own takes on Bowie's " Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed ", " Let Me Sleep Beside You ", " Rock and Roll Suicide " and " Modern Love ".

The music video for Bowie's " Day-In Day-Out ", directed by Julien Temple, included " offending " scenes such as a man urinating on Ronald Reagan's Hollywood Walk of Fame star but was edited for television broadcast.

During this time, in addition to producing the posthumous Hendrix records, Kramer produced records by Carly Simon, Sha Na Na, Jobriath and Peter Frampton, engineered albums for artists as diverse as Dionne Warwick and Lena Horne plus David Bowie's " Live at the Spectrum " and " Young Americans " which included " Fame " with John Lennon playing rhythm guitar and mixed Led Zeppelin's " Houses of the Holy " and " Physical Graffiti ", among others.

Other highlights included David Bowie's opening tandem of Paul Simon's " America " and his own " Heroes ", dedicated to his local ladder company, and New York's own Billy Joel's " Miami 2017 ( Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway )" where Joel says after singing it, " I wrote that song 25 years ago as a science fiction song.

Hendrix owned a Coral electric sitar that later wound up in the possession of Peter Frampton, who used it on tour during David Bowie's 1987 world tour.

Notable examples include Mike Oldfield's " Guilty " ( 1979 ) Blondie's " Heart of Glass " ( 1978 ), Cher's " Hell on Wheels " and " Take Me Home " ( both 1979 ), Barry Manilow ’ s " Copacabana " ( 1978 ), David Bowie's " John I'm Only Dancing ( Again )" ( 1975 ), Rod Stewart's " Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?

Despite their altercation, Underwood and Bowie remained good friends, and Underwood went on to create the artwork for Bowie's early albums.

Bowie's fascination with the bizarre was fuelled when he met dancer Lindsay Kemp: " He lived on his emotions, he was a wonderful influence.

It also spawned a UK number ten hit in Bowie's cover of " Knock on Wood ".

Lennon would call Bowie's work as " great, but just rock and roll with lipstick on ".

Making prominent use of electronic instruments, the album, which reunited Bowie with Let's Dance producer Nile Rodgers, confirmed Bowie's return to popularity, hitting the number one spot on the UK charts and spawning three top 40 hits, including the top 10 song " Jump They Say ".

Although the track was edited out of the final cut, it would later be re-recorded and released as " Safe " on the B-side of Bowie's 2002 single " Everyone Says ' Hi '".

Absolute Beginners ( 1986 ), a rock musical based on Colin MacInnes's 1959 novel about London life, featured Bowie's music and presented him with a minor acting role.

The Doctors of Madness built on Bowie's presentation concepts, while moving musically in the direction that would become identified with punk.

The Godzilla remix of " Posse on Broadway " contained a sample from David Bowie's 1975 hit " Fame ," but neither the album version nor the original seven-inch edit version ( which was used for the video ) used the Bowie sample.

In June 1969, he played Mellotron on David Bowie's single " Space Oddity " for a session fee of £ 9.

He went on to play piano for Bowie's " Life on Mars?

Mick Rock directed and edited four clips, all originally shot on 16 mm colour film, to promote four consecutive David Bowie singles —" John, I'm Only Dancing " ( May 1972 ), " The Jean Genie " ( Nov. 1972 ), the December 1972 US re-release of " Space Oddity " and the 1973 release of the single " Life On Mars " ( lifted from Bowie's earlier album Hunky Dory ).

The clip for " John, I'm Only Dancing " was made with a budget of just US $ 200 and filmed at the afternoon rehearsal for Bowie's Rainbow Theatre concert on 19 August 1972.

It appears on two of David Bowie's live albums: Live Santa Monica ' 72 and Ziggy Stardust-The Motion Picture.

Later in the evening, following David Bowie's set, a video shot by the CBC ( Video Editor: Colin Dean ) was shown to the audiences in London and Philadelphia, as well as on televisions around the world ( though notably neither US feed, ABC or MTV chose to show the film ), showing starving and diseased Ethiopian children set to the song " Drive " by The Cars.

On 9 January 1997, Smith joined David Bowie on stage at Bowie's 50th Birthday Party concert at Madison Square Garden to duet on two Bowie songs, " The Last Thing You Should Do " and " Quicksand ".

* The song was released as a bonus track on the Virgin Records reissue of Bowie's Let's Dance in 1995.

* The original single version appears on disc three of Bowie's The Platinum Collection ( 2005 ), marking the first appearance of this version on a Bowie compilation.