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  • thanks to gta IV i´m hoe on this song. best joint ever!

  • NOT ONLY WAS BOWIE A PROLIFIC SONGWRITING GENIUS, BUT HIS BREADTH OF MUSICAL-STYLES IS ABSOLUTELY STUNNING.

  • OMG LOVE YOU DAVID :))))))))))))

  • GTA IV brought me here

  • I love this man.

  • Thank You uploader. You are a fucking prince man. :D

  • BOWIE WILL ALWAYS ROCK!!!

  • Just noticed the Grateful Dead song Shakedown Street sounds as if Fascination may have influenced it.

  • @jlovebirch I DON'T KNOW, BUT WHAT'S SHARP ABOUT YOUR OBSERVATION IS THAT SHAKEDOWN STREET WAS DEFINITELY 'DISCO DEAD' AND THIS ALBUM WAS 'DISCO BOWIE'

  • Fascination!!!!

  • + why no 'LINK'

    to The Luther Vandross 'Virgin' of this?

  • God this is fucking cool!

  • He fascinates me :)

  • GTAIV

  • go this form gta iv !

  • oh jeez i just realized how inside-out this track must turn you on good clean psychedelics 0.o

  • aww shit..i thought this was going to be a human league cover...

  • GTA IV :D

  • 11 ppl dont like cocaine!!!

  • this would b a good song to listen to on one of those days when id walk down the street with no inspiration in mind. its uplifting for some reason

  • this song was co-written with luther vandross

  • pftrtrwerwt! : 0

  • @thebadbrain herp-a-derp??

  • @belgion75 Qeef cakes

  • Like this if GTA IV ballod of gay tony brought you to this song

  • @macho844 *ballad, and this is on the original :)

  • @FlaKey511 k...

  • @macho844 I listened this song at the first time i played GTE ballad of gay tony i though to my self : this song is a "fascination"

  • I listen to this, and i just think to myself would any solo artist ever been able to pull something like this off? I love soul, james brown, soloman burke, but this has soul too.

  • Haven't heard this one. Which album is this one on?

  • @Bettawoman its from his Young Americans Album, such a great tune!

  • GTA 4

  • Groce pic, good song.

  • FASCINATION, god i can't stand still

  • love love love bowie and this song!! so funky!

  • @Sprintimeboy This would be amongst my favorites from that album, Right is number one, Young Americans being second...

  • I AM DANCING

  • Luther Vandross song!!.. 

  • @luckymirixox Luther sang back up and co-wrote w/ DB. And I do so love Luther's song SEARCHING

  • my speakers will not go loud enough for this song

  • David Bowie- Rock God that managed to be popular for three decades

  • @JonnyCashmore

    Thanks for your poetical sweetness in writing, but I did'n't even mentioned the word ''race'', in fact I only was hinting at the ethnological-historical origin of the different traditional-folkloristical music - e.g.: tarantella is a folk Italian music. I think everybody, even today, say ''black music'' for blues, soul etc, and ''white music'' for brit-pop, without any ''racistic meaning''. So did I.

    Sergio Sozi

    P.S.

    I am Italian and precisely a non-Berlusconi voter.

  • @sergiosozi who is benvenuto berlusconi? speaking off colour and voting for celentanos sound&vision...what would that be...grey? as a matter of fact cant beat a leak of fascination ;-)

  • luther vandross co-wrote this!

  • luther vandross singing backup!

  • the classics never die dude this is when musicians had real talent 

  • As usual it's a personal way of mixing black and white music, but, sorr, this time the result is'nt the best. I prefer the ''purely white'' songs of the Thin White Duke.

  • @sergiosozi music has no colour. "race" does not exist, nor has it ever. Please cram that Yank shit up your Republican ass, where it belongs.

  • this picture of him is absolutely sexy. XD

  • I used to like this and now i try listening to it again and i wonder how i ever liked it. its not really cool

  • Thumbs down if you are sick of people discovering music via video games, Hollywood and TV.

  • @desolationrow why, that way more people get to know about great songs like this

  • @desolationrow Why does it matter where people find new music from the media? I agree it gets tiresome when people constantly talk about video games on these videos, but there aren't really a whole lot of other places this music is used anymore. Most radio stations today only play a few songs per artist, and don't really present a wider representation of an artists library, and young people aren't very likely to hear about this music from their friends.

  • @desolationrow thats like saying "I hope todays youth never finds out about real music".

  • @desolationrow  Shut up you stupid fucking hipster.

  • @flysociety9661 face it dork you're a neo maxie zoon dweebie ! 

  • @desolationrow tell them another way maybe it helps a bit.

  • This is too cool for most people. Bowie!

  • love this

  • HORRIBLE......ES UN DOLOR DE CABEZA ESTE POBRE HOMBRE.....DESDE EL PRIMER DIA QUE EMPEZO A CANTAR.........

  • @bellini7verdi ¡Si no te gusta la canción, no te escuche, culo! This song is amazing and you know it.

  • Bowie leads others follow......

  • awsome artist...big time!!! awsome music thx for uploading

  • @TheHype85 You're welcome.

  • Haha some time ago my mom told me i was named after this legend :D

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  • This may be good to play while having sex!

  • @MisterPerfect1989 this whole album is.

  • eveytime i request this sng at my bar they look at me strange ,, like how a black man gonna like david bowie?!! i don't give a damn...this song is (like i said before) FUNKY!!!!

  • Been a bowie fan all my life and love Luther - just been listening to Change. Was amazed to just listen to "Funky Music" from Luther -and it is the original of this song. The Bowie version is beautiful though - but originally it is a Luther Vandross song and idea. Bowie changed some of the lyrics but not all.

  • Luther Vandross originally fronted a band called, "Luther" and recorded two albums on the Cotillion label and this song was on one called simply "Luther". The song was originally called, "Funky Music" and was the lead cut on side one. I truly treasure those two albums and I understand Luther Vandross controlled rights to both albums but did not want them released on cd because he felft they were not up to his standards. His family now conrols rights to both of them. It is a shame!

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  • Amazing song from an amazing album, Young Americans - just to confirm, Luther wrote the original lyrics and i believe basic song structure, then Bowie added his own lyrics. He said to a young Luther at the time, "Can I change the lyrics?" ... to which Luther replied "Can you change the lyrics? You're David Bowie, I still live with my mother.... of course you can!" Brilliant.

  • I just wish one day I'll wake up and these real classic songs gonna beat down that "Justin what?" garbagge. This is the proof how sick and unfair today's world really is.. ://

  • @Whiteblooder You will. It's called 5 years from now. Remember Sisqo? No? Exactly.

  • @Whiteblooder most people have no taste and are stupid. oh, did I say that?

  • @Whiteblooder

    or proof that music changes and people who grew up in the generation of certain music will always enjoy it more than the music of other generations, people need thier generations of music because it stops them feeling like a has been and that thier life actually meant something

  • @Whiteblooder The difference is, the shitty Bieber/Cyrus shit won't stand the test of time like this does. You should take some comfort in that ;)

  • Such a sexxxxxxy song...grr :D

  • I'm crazy on David!!!!!!!

  • I think Luther wrote the music and Bowie the lyrics but can't confirm.

  • @juliekstroup i read they co-wrote

  • @juliekstroup

    there's a behind the music VH1 programme (i think it's vh1 but dont quote me) where luther talks about this that might be of interest to you. See my above comment.

  • Great song !

  • i've never heard this before,great GREAT GREAT?I LIKE IT,this song is so much FFFFFFFUNKY...................­........i heard an another version of this song by fat larrys band,it's a good version too.

  • So damn funky.

  • of course its a great song look who make it

    DAVID BOWIE THE BEST !

  • @ynja02 Luther Vandross wrote this song after being hired to be his background singer. The album was already done but David Bowie liked it so much he went back to the studio to record it.

  • @deeshizznit but david bowie version is more likely..

    :)

  • @deeshizznit - WOW, I'm old enough to remember when the albumn released and all this time I had *no* idea Luther V wrote this and did background vocals... one of my all-time fav tracks. Stunned. RIP Luther - you did real good with this one!

  • I just can't get over this funky beat;Been listening to this album since 1983.(Not every day)...I used to listen to "David Live"everyday for I don't know how long?Don't know why:It just doesn't get old easily.

  • @halloweenjack1974 I love David live, Sanborn sax, wasn't Ronson on that one too?

  • what a track

  • I love to be a cougar and dance around to this song in a catsuit whilst enticing and seducing a young boy of 19 to do exactly what I want.

  • good song heard it on grand theft auto 4

  • cruise around Star Junction with this song

  • Dirty Sexy tune!!!! Rockin ;0*

  • What Year did This Piece come out?

  • @DetonatorYellow -1975 - 76. When it became my favorite song for seduction.

  • @durgaaa

    Thanks. I Like listening to this song while playing GTA IV. Sad that Good music only Exists when you arent Born...

  • @DetonatorYellow --well, you could transport yourself back there in a Time Machine OR you can write your own songs and be the Good Music of the next decade. Don't forget- we didn't have cell phones back then, or EVEN CDs or video tapes or MTV or YouTube! NONE of that ! It was a different world of 12 inch vinyl and rare concerts. Go see a movie called Peggy Sue Got Married and get a whole new attitude on when we are born - you'll feel better !

  • @durgaaa

    I Have thought of writing my own Pieces, But well Once i Get a Borla Installed on the Challenger I'd have an Instrumental Orchestra in the Garage.LoL. Peggy Sue got married. Sounds like a Chick Flick. I'll Stick to The original Gone In 60 Seconds or something.

    Thanks for the Suggestion. I'll Check it out.

  • This guy is such a pimp.

  • One of the best mod songs...

  • Sick ass bass on this track

  • i know these song for a realy long time but im glad that a videogame bring it to people that didnt, young people...etc

    thanks god to good taste video games

  • Fascination! OO!

  • idk how to explain i just think hes so kewl hes awsome a great singer and hes just so kewl looking keep the 60 70 80s

  • WOW

    Still wonderful..

    Bowie is such an amazing writer an performer.. Why does no-one do anything like this now?

  • Damn, I was just reading the comments & it was said that Bowie never performed this live, it got me thinking how amazing it would have been for him to perform this during the Reality Tour! This is an amazing song & to hear it updated with a fresh sound would have been brilliant! I think that like Fame 90 it would have been a hit all these years later. I can't think of many songs Bowie has done that wouldn't be a hit but good old corporations don't see art they see money they push crap not art.

  • This was the result of Lurther Vandross's "Funky Music" when Bowie heard Luther messing around with it in the studio where Bowie was recording Young Americans Bowie asked if they could record it. Luther was there with his buddy Carlos & good friend & wife of Carlos Robin. Carlos was Bowie's guitarist. Bowie was so impressed with Luther that he gave him the task of doing the vocal arrangements for the whole album we all know how that turned out. A new chapter for Bowie, a shock for Ziggy fans!

  • @MusicCollaborator I was 11 when Aladdin Sane came out, then every year for about 6 years, Bowie would come out with a new style. The Diamond Dog, the Young American, The Thin White Duke... i was too young to be shocked, it was the older fans got confused!

    What do you think of Simon Cowell's idea of having a Bowie theme on XFactor this year? I like XF but don't want to hear the songs desecrated lol!

  • @averilleX I despise the corporate processed cheese of today's music & don't like when people speak of Bowie & GaGa as if she is even close to his level. But I like that if they had Bowie songs on then it would expose a whole new group/generation to REAL ART! Can you imagine discovering Bowie for the first time now when he has so much stuff to listen to? Too young to be shocked? I wasn't lol, I remember the Diamond Dogs poster on the ceiling above my brothers bed, it freaked me out.

  • @averilleX what was your first experience with Bowie? Alad? What did you think when Low came out? My first actual experience was when my bro had a Diamond Dogs poster above his bed. As for Bowie's music I had loved "Fame" & first saw him on Soul Train, then a week later they had Ziggy on The Midnight special, I had feelings stir that I had never felt. I would wake up thinking about Bowie's Ziggy show, it had a huge impact. I never seen anything like it. I started my singing career thnks to him

  • @MusicCollaborator i was about 7-8 when Space Oddity came out so that's probably my first memory .. him in the spacesuit ... the same year as the moon landing which had a big impact on us kids. So literally i hardly remember a time without David! The first album i liked tho was Aladdin Sane. My standing fave is still Young Americans, amazing u saw him first time round on Soul Train, we couldn't see that in the UK at the time ...

  • What a great god damn song he is truly won of the best keep the 60s 70s and 80s

  • My fascination -D\Bowie....

  • So hot ... I was STRUTTIN' it, in my youth, to this song. I seduced countless boys just by walking into a club and dancing. I cut the tempo in half and just moved real slow and acted out every lyric with my choreography,... real slow..... I became one with the music. Put the song on in every house I was a guest in and got others to dance too. Those were the days when I wore my clothes real tight.

  • @durgaaa You know, I like your style, plus you love the songs made in th 60s and 70s just like me. I hate most of the crap made today. I love this song, and some people think I'm crazy for liking these songs. Then I play this song and sing along with the words is makes me feel good that u can understand the words in this song and not in todays music.

  • My fastination-Great David!

  • Love yah Bowie, enjoyed watchin the movie Labryinth when I was a kid =)

  • Another one of the great musicians from Great Britain.

  • very nice!!!

  • very american

  • I'm fascinated

  • reminds me of too many ppl wheeled :-)

  • one of my fav songs of david bowie

  • This songs awesome!

    Who's the back up singer?

    I looked it up and didn't find anything

  • @XenSmithy Luther Van Dros i think

  • @XenSmithy Vandross

  • Epic!

  • Fascination! ooh yea ! get in the fever !

    Awesome !

  • fuckin love this song <3

  • this shit is motherfunking FUNKY!!!!!

  • @Funkdogg couldnt have said it better myself. lol

  • I can't get the story straight on this song. Which came out first, Funky Music by Luther Vandross or this song, and who wrote what for who? Little help

  • Tricky one. In fact, the song was first written by Vandross and entitled "Funky Music". He then worked with Bowie who changed its lyrics which gave birth to this song, fascination. It came out on the young americans album in 1975. Then, Vandross released the original one, Funky Music, on the Luther album in 76. So the original version came out after Bowie's version.

  • funny story...well they are/were both great artist..

  • his best song and one of the best Grand Theft Auto songs

  • best Bowie song. The Man Who Sold The World is right up there though.

  • underrated bowie song!

  • Notevole, non conoscevo il brano......!!!!

  • when i heard this song i though some black guy was singing good voice

  • wow hat a beat!...great bass line

  • I don't think he has ever sung this song live.

  • thanks for getting back to me....my fav tune by him.

  • One of my favorite songs in gta 4!

  • The best song in gta 4!

  • @bmwm5thebest igual a mi me gusta mucho

  • @LEOCCIICS1 yes this song is good :D

  • Grand Theft Auto IV

  • I fail to see how any of this relates to David Bowie. Skinner, you are a cock. Egg guy, I don't know enough to make a call on this one. Just chill your bean.

  • Lost all faith in youtubers. If thats how are arguments going to end now.

  • The 70's rule.

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  • it's disgusting that the first related video to this is alphabeat, who shouldn't be on the same page as bowie at all!

  • @lors999, funny thing is the alphabeat song actually mentions "the young dudes" in their verse....along with the title it always reminded me of Bowie.

  • Bowie you sexy bitch!

  • i never get embarresed so waaaay

  • HeLLo

  • hello mis huevos

  • this song is so good.i heard this song in GTA IV-Liberty Rock radio

  • i have heard that song in gta 4

  • I can't believe i can find this song anywhere on limewire or frostwire :/

    Love it though!

  • 1. No one uses Limewire anymore.

    2. Use buy it off amazon for 79p or something.

  • i use limewire actualy

  • You're one of the few, my friend. Old School!

  • im apparently ur friend??????? ask yourself

  • And here i was thinking we could be so much more! Why do people have to be hostile to each other on the internet? Where's the love at?

  • i think youtube should get rid of comments, pple fight waaaay toomuch on dis site!

  • Tell me about it...

  • up ur ass or on limewire, check and tell me

  • What? So love either comes out of my ass or limewire? Dude, if you're going to insult me, at least come up with a good one. You're just embarrassing yourself now.

  • and anyway who uses pharases like "Old School" anymore...NOBODY

  • Damn, insult of the year, guy. You ought to write that shit down, it's THAT good you've almost made me start crying. So you know apprently what the new age generation slang to use but you haven't realised what are the popular and unpopular filesharing and p2p services to use. But it's fun to point out the irony in things.