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"DJ"
Single by David Bowie
from the album Lodger
B-side "Repetition"
Released 29 June 1979
Format 7" single
Recorded Mountain Studios, Montreux; September 1978; Record Plant Studios, New York, March 1979
Genre Rock
Length 3:59 (Album Version)
3:20 (Single Version)
Label RCA
BOW 3
Writer(s) David Bowie, Brian Eno, Carlos Alomar
Producer David Bowie, Tony Visconti
David Bowie singles chronology
"Boys Keep Swinging"
(1979)
"DJ"
(1979)
"Yassassin"
(1979)
Lodger track listing
"Red Sails"
(5)
"DJ"
(6)
"Look Back in Anger"
(7)

"DJ" was a single by David Bowie. It was taken from the album Lodger in the UK, being released on June 29, 1979.

A cynical comment on the cult of the DJ, the track is noted for Adrian Belew's guitar solo, which was recorded in multiple takes, and then mixed back together for the album track. The single was an edited version, but was still possibly too uncommercial for substantial chart success – it peaked at #29 in the UK, and was not released in other markets. David Mallet filmed a video for the song, featuring Bowie destroying a DJ studio, mixed with Bowie strolling around London and attracting a crowd of curious passers-by.

The song was performed live for the first time on Bowie's Outside Tour in 1995.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "DJ" (Bowie, Eno, Alomar) – 3:59
  2. "Repetition" (Bowie) – 2:59

Production credits

Other releases

Cover versions

  • Danny Michel - Loving the Alien: Danny Michel Sings the Songs of David Bowie (2004)

References

Pegg, Nicholas, The Complete David Bowie, Reynolds & Hearn Ltd, 2000, ISBN 1-903111-14-5








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