Artist	Song
T. Rex	Bang a Gong (Get It On)
from Electric Warrior (Remastered) (2003)
Iggy Pop	Nightclubbing
from The Idiot (1992)
Lou Reed	Satellite of Love
from Transformer (2002)
Mott the Hoople	Momma's Little Jewel
from All the Young Dudes (Legacy Edition) (2006)
Queen	Killer Queen
from Queen: Greatest Hits (1994)
John Lennon	What You Got
from Walls and Bridges (Remastered) (2010)
Peter Gabriel	Sledgehammer
from So (Remastered) (1986)
Roxy Music	Love Is the Drug
from The Best of Roxy Music (2001)
Brian Eno	Needles In the Camel's Eye
from Here Come the Warm Jets (2004)
John Cale	Big White Cloud
from Vintage Violence (2001)
New York Dolls	Trash
from New York Dolls (1987)
Sparks	I Predict
from Angst In My Pants (1982)
Kevin Ayers	Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes
from Whatevershebringswesing (2003)
Jobriath	World Without End
from Forever Changing: The Golden Age of Elektra Records - 1963-1973 (2007)
Edoardo Bennato	Un giorno credi
from L'isola che non c'è (2002)

Comment:

Sorry if we sound like a broken record, but you can point your compass in just about any direction and find someone who sounds like [i]some[/i] aspect of David Bowie. After abandoning the Tolkien-fueled bongo-beat psychedelia of its earlier days, T. Rex morphed into an irresistible bubblegum-sleaze machine. With the help of longtime Bowie producer Tony Visconti, their fuzz-caked, power-chord-driven “Bang a Gong (Get It On)” rocketed to #1 in the U.K. and set the stage for glam. If [i]Rocky Horror[/i]’s Frank N. Furter jammed with Meat Loaf in a gay bar, they might have sounded a little like Jobriath, whose 3-D, CinemaScope®, Technicolor® debut (featuring “World Without End”) arrived in a blaze of hype so incendiary it torched his career. Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry’s super-cool decadence in “Love Is the Drug” lurks in the shadows Bowie sang about in “Golden Years,” while Roxy alum and occasional Bowie collaborator Brian Eno revs up the avant-pop engine in “Needles In the Camel’s Eye” from [i]Here Come the Warm Jets[/i]. From John Lennon to Queen, from cult hero to superstar, we’ve got Bowie’s [i]compadres[/i] and competitors right at your fingertips.

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