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Roots & Influences - World of David Bowie

Artist Song
Elvis Presley  Jailhouse Rock  
Little Richard  Tutti Frutti  
Chuck Berry  Sweet Little Rock & Roller  
Fats Domino  Ain't That a Shame  
The Rolling Stones  Jumpin' Jack Flash  
The Who  My Generation  
The Yardbirds  For Your Love  
Pink Floyd  Arnold Layne  
The Pretty Things  S.F. Sorrow Is Born  
Bob Dylan  Like a Rolling Stone  
John Lennon  Jealous Guy  
The Velvet Underground  Sweet Jane  
The Stooges  I Wanna Be Your Dog (Remastered)  
Marc Bolan  Mustang Ford  
James Brown  The Payback  
The O'Jays  Back Stabbers  
Kraftwerk  Kometenmelodie 2  
Joy Division  She's Lost Control  
Pixies  Debaser  
Nine Inch Nails  Closer  
John Coltrane  Naima  
Anthony Newley  Lumbered  
Tommy Steele  Rock With the Caveman  
Jacques Brel  Mathilde  
Bertolt Brecht  Mack the Knife from the Threepenny Opera  

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By an artists’ first album, their influences are usually set in stone, and their career builds on that solid — solid[i]ified[/i] — foundation. Not so with Bowie. Like an avalanche, he’s swept up everything in his path . . . and keeps on charging. After hearing an eyeliner-wearing hell-raiser named Little Richard, whose [i]wop-bop-a-loo-bop[/i]-ing “Tutti Frutti” changed the face of rock, he “bought a saxophone and came into the music business.” Anthony Newley was already a huge stage star in Britain when his show-stopping “Lumbered” incited Bowie to write a debut album “full of really weird Newley-style songs with lyrics about lesbians in the army and cannibals.” But the Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Jane,” with its dirty-sexy mix of art and punk, saved him from a lifetime of Tony® Awards and dropped him on the wild side’s catwalk. And in the mid-’90s, Nine Inch Nails’ “Closer” sharpened Bowie’s aggro-industrial tendencies to a Reznor edge. Even when most of his peers have calcified in their own image, Bowie continues listening and keeps evolving; from Chuck Berry to Kraftwerk and beyond, we’ve got what’s on [i]his[/i] iPod.
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