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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Maria Sherman

How David Bowie, long thought ambivalent to country music, became a writer on a Chris Young song

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Country star Chris Young's latest single, “Young Love & Saturday Nights,” is a vivid love letter to summertime weekends, old trucks, dive bar bands, and crushes. And it might sound immediately familiar: The guitar lick that opens the track is lifted directly from David Bowie's 1974 hit “Rebel Rebel."

Bowie is credited posthumously as a songwriter on the track, making it one of the genre-melding icon's few forays into country music — noteworthy, because Bowie himself was not quite a fan of the genre.

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