Black Tie White Noise - The Album
Songs (Time)
All songs written by David Bowie except You've
Been Around by Bowie/Gabrels, I Feel Free
by Bruce/Brown, Nite Flights by Engel, Don't Let Me Down & Down by Tahra/Valmont, I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday by
Morrissey.
- The Wedding (5:04)
- You've Been Around (4:45)
- I Feel Free (4:52)
- Black Tie White Noise (4:52)
- Jump They Say (4:22)
- Nite Flights (4:30)
- Pallas Athena (4:40)
- Miracle Goodnight (4:14)
- Don't Let Me Down & Down (4:55)
- Looking For Lester (5:36)
- I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday (4:14)
- The Wedding Song (4:29)
Bonus tracks
- Jump They Say (3:58) Alternate mix
- Lucy Can't Dance (5:45)
- Release details
- Original release by Savage Records, April 5 1993
- Producer
- David Bowie and Nile Rodgers
- Musicians
- David Bowie: vocals, guitar, sax and dog alto
- Pugi Bell: drums
- Barry Campbell: bass
- Sterling Campbell: drums
- Nile Rodgers: guitar
- Richard Hilton: keyboards
- John Regan: bass
- Michael Reisman: harp, tubular bells
- Dave Richards: keyboards
- Philippe Saisse: keyboards
- Richard Tee: keyboards
- Gerado Velez: percussion
- Fonzi Thorton, Tawatha Agee, Curtis King, Jr., Dennis Collins,
Brenda White-King, Maryl Epps: backing vocals
- Soloists
- Wedding Song
- David Bowie: saxophones
- You've Been Around
- Lester Bowie: trumpet
- Reeves Gabrels: guitar
- I Feel Free
- David Bowie: saxophone
- Mick Ronson: guitar
- Jump They Say
- David Bowie: saxophone
- Lester Bowie: trumpet
- Pallas Athena
- David Bowie: saxophone
- Lester Bowie: trumpet
- Don't Let Me Down & Down
- Lester Bowie: trumpet
- Looking for Lester
- David Bowie: saxophone
- Lester Bowie: trumpet
- Mike Garson: piano
- I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday
- Wild T. Springer: guitar
- Vocal Duet on Black Tie White Noise
- David Bowie & Al B. Sure!
- Choir on I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday
- Fonzi Thorton, Tawatha Agee, Curtis King, Jr., Dennis Collins,
Brenda White-King, Maryl Epps, Frank Simms, George Simms, David Spinner,
Lamya Al-Mughiery, Connie Petruk, David Bowie, Nile Rodgers
- Engineers
- Jon Goldberger, Gary Tole,
Andrew Grassi, Louis Alfred III, Lee Anthony, Neal Perry, Andy Smith
Hunters and Collectors
- Indonesia: On the Indonesian release, David sang
Don't Let Me Down & Down in Indonesian! If
anyone has the lyrics to this (i.e. you know Indonesian), then please
send them to me ;)
- Japan: In Japan, there was an extra bonus track, the
Don't Stop Praying Remix of Pallas Athena.
Trivia
- A return to the solo album by David, although with a lot of help.
Note particularly Mick Ronson and Mike Garson from the original
Spiders days. Mick Ronson was to die from liver cancer later in the year.
- The cover of Morrissey's "I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday" came
from Morrissey's 1992 album "Your Arsenal", which coincidentally
was produced by Mick Ronson.
- Chart Performance:
| Country | Date | Peak # | # of weeks |
| UK | April 17, 1993 | 1 | 11 |
| US | ? | 39 | 8 |
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