Released: July 25, 1975
Featuring: John Lennon
Songwriter: Carlos Alomar David Bowie John Lennon
Producer: David Bowie Harry Maslin
[Verse 1]
Fame, (fame) makes a man take things over
Fame, (fame) lets him loose, hard to swallow
Fame, (fame) puts you there where things are hollow
Fame (fame)
[Chorus 1]
Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame
That burns your change to keep you in... sane (sane)
Fame (fame)
[Verse 2]
Fame, (fame) what you like is in the limo
Fame, (fame) what you get is no tomorrow
Fame, (fame) what you need you have to borrow
Fame (fame)
[Chorus 2]
Fame, "Nein! It's mine!" is just his line
To bind your time, it drives you to... crime
Fame (fame)
[Bridge]
Could it be the best, could it be?
Really be, really, babe?
Could it be, my babe, could it, babe?
Could it, babe? Could it, babe?
[Verse 3]
Is it any wonder I reject you first?
Fame, (fame) fame, fame, fame (fame)
Is it any wonder you are too cool to fool
Fame (fame)
[Chorus 3]
Fame, bully for you, chilly for me
Got to get a rain check on... pain (pain)
(Fame)
[Outro]
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame
What's your name?
(Feeling so gay, feeling gay)
Fame, (fame) makes a man take things over
Fame, (fame) lets him loose, hard to swallow
Fame, (fame) puts you there where things are hollow
Fame (fame)
[Chorus 1]
Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame
That burns your change to keep you in... sane (sane)
Fame (fame)
[Verse 2]
Fame, (fame) what you like is in the limo
Fame, (fame) what you get is no tomorrow
Fame, (fame) what you need you have to borrow
Fame (fame)
[Chorus 2]
Fame, "Nein! It's mine!" is just his line
To bind your time, it drives you to... crime
Fame (fame)
[Bridge]
Could it be the best, could it be?
Really be, really, babe?
Could it be, my babe, could it, babe?
Could it, babe? Could it, babe?
[Verse 3]
Is it any wonder I reject you first?
Fame, (fame) fame, fame, fame (fame)
Is it any wonder you are too cool to fool
Fame (fame)
[Chorus 3]
Fame, bully for you, chilly for me
Got to get a rain check on... pain (pain)
(Fame)
[Outro]
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame
What's your name?
(Feeling so gay, feeling gay)
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- Fame
- Fashion
- Ashes to Ashes
- Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
- Jump They Say
- Young Americans
- Loving the Alien
- Wild Is the Wind
- TVC 15
- Boys Keep Swinging
- Little Wonder
- Dancing in the Street
- Absolute Beginners
- This Is Not America
- Dancing in the Street
- I’m Afraid of Americans (NIN V1 Mix)
- Blue Jean
- Rebel Rebel
- Slow Burn
- Oh! You Pretty Things
- Modern Love
- Sound and Vision
- Heroes
- Space Oddity
- Let’s Dance
- Drive-In Saturday
- Life on Mars?
- The Man Who Sold the World
- Starman
- John, I’m Only Dancing
- The Jean Genie
- Diamond Dogs
- China Girl
- Suffragette City
- Sorrow
- Changes
- Under Pressure
- Ziggy Stardust
- Golden Years
- Hallo Spaceboy (Pet Shop Boys Remix)
From the albums
- Guitar Hero 5 Soundtrack
- Young Americans (1975)
- Changesonebowie (1976)
- Changesbowie (1990)
- Have a Nice Decade: The 70s Pop Culture Box (1998)
- Millennium Classic Rock Party (1999)
- Best of Bowie (2002)
- Rush (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2013)
- Nothing Has Changed (2014)
- Legacy (The Very Best of David Bowie) (2016)
David Bowie popular songs
- Space Oddity
- ★ (Blackstar)
- Heroes
- Life on Mars?
- Lazarus
- Starman
- Changes
- The Man Who Sold the World
- Girl Loves Me
- Ashes to Ashes
- Ziggy Stardust
- Moonage Daydream
- Modern Love
- Five Years
- ’Tis a Pity She Was a Whore
- I Can’t Give Everything Away
- Dollar Days
- Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide
- Rebel Rebel
- Young Americans
- Station to Station
- Suffragette City
- Let’s Dance
- Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)