David Bowie (after playing the song 'Fame' live at the Hong Kong Coliseum, 8 Dec 1983): I co-wrote that song with John Lennon. And I asked him one day ‘How do you write your songs?’ And he said, ‘lt’s easy, you just say what you mean, and you put a back-beat to it’. I said, ‘What do you think of my kind of Rock & Roll?’ He said, ‘It’s great, but it’s just Rock & Roll with lipstick on. Last time I saw John Lennon was in Hong Kong. We went to a Hong Kong market and there was a stall that sold old clothes. And there was a Beatle jacket on the stall and I did something that is not usually in my character and I asked him to put it on, so that I could take a photograph. I took a photograph and I still got the photograph. The jacket doesn’t fit properly. It looks like John had outgrown it.
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