Rock 'n' Roll with Me

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“Rock 'n' Roll With Me”
Single by David Bowie from the album David Live
B-side	"Panic in Detroit"
Released	September 1974 (US)
Format	7" single
Recorded	Philadelphia, 14 July 1974
Genre	Rock
Length	4:15
Label	RCA Records PB 10105 (US)
Producer	Tony Visconti
David Bowie singles chronology
"Knock on Wood" (1974 - UK)< "Rock 'n' Roll with Me" (1974 - US) "Young Americans" (1975)
Diamond Dogs track listing
"Rebel Rebel" (6) "Rock 'n' Roll With Me" (7) "We Are the Dead" (8)

"Rock 'n' Roll With Me" is a song written by David Bowie and Warren Peace that first appeared on the Bowie's Diamond Dogs album in April 1974. A version recorded during the Diamond Dogs tour the same year was released on the album David Live.

While the song "Knock on Wood" from David Live was issued as a single in the UK, "Rock 'n' Roll With Me" was chosen for release as the US single in response to Donovan's recent cover version.^[1] The B-side in each case was another live recording from the Diamond Dogs tour, "Panic in Detroit", originally from Aladdin Sane (1973).

Like "Rebel Rebel", the lead single from Diamond Dogs, "Rock 'n' Roll With Me" was conceived as part of a never-produced Ziggy Stardust musical in 1973.^[2] It has been described as "one of Bowie's least self-conscious love songs" and a foretaste of the R&B balladry on Young Americans (1975).^[3]

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Production credits 3 Live versions 4 Cover versions 5 Notes

[edit] Track listing

1. "Rock 'n' Roll With Me" (lyrics by David Bowie; music by Bowie, Warren Peace) – 4:15
2. "Panic in Detroit" (Bowie) – 5:41

[edit] Production credits

• Producers:
  • Tony Visconti

• Musicians:
  • David Bowie: vocals
  • Earl Slick: guitar
  • Herbie Flowers: bass
  • Michael Kamen: keyboards
  • Tony Newman: drums
  • David Sanborn: saxophone
  • Richard Grando: saxophone
  • Pablo Rosario: backing vocals
  • Gui Andrisano: backing vocals
  • Warren Peace: backing vocals

[edit] Live versions

• The same version released on single and David Live also appeared on the Dutch release Rock Concert. Another live recording from the 1974 tour was released on the semi-legal album A Portrait in Flesh.

[edit] Cover versions

• Donovan – Released as a single a-side (b/w "Divine Daze of Deathless Delight", September 1974, Epic EPC 2661). This was also issued on the album Old Fashioned Picture Book in 1974
• Take My Tip – Single
• Kenny Miller – Single (1975)
• The Killers play it as a snippet with their song "My List" sometimes during their concerts.

[edit] Notes

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