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He hit Number 1 in the U.S. with the disco John Lennon collabo “Fame,” which got instantly plundered by James Brown for “Hot (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved)”—making Bowie the rare rock star who could claim James Brown ripped him off.

(Most ink at the time went toward George Harrison’s post-Beatles solo release, All Things Must Pass, which dropped later that month.)

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But if you listen to outtakes from the sessions, you can hear the Beatles worked out harmonies for “Eight Days a Week”—beautiful harmonies, in fact. Yet they cut the harmonies and sang in unison, to make the song sound like it took less work than it did. They spent seven hours in the studio tinkering with “Eight Days a Week,” adding and

Jimmy produced Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers—every Stones record through Goats Head Soup in 1973, the backbone stuff. But the best thing we ever did with Jimmy Miller was “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.” That song and “Street Fighting Man” came out of the very first sessions with Jimmy at Olympic Studios for what would become Beggars Banquet,