Rock 'n' Roll with Me

Single infobox
Name = Rock 'n' Roll With Me
Artist = David Bowie
from 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
Chart position =

• Did not chart
  Reviews =
  Last single = "Knock on Wood"
  (1974 - UK)<
  This single = "Rock 'n' Roll with Me"
  (1974 - US)
  Next single = "Young Americans"
  (1975)
  Misc = Extra tracklisting
  Type = Studio
  Album = Diamond Dogs
  prev_track = "Rebel Rebel"
  prev_no = 6
  this_track = "Rock 'n' Roll With Me"
  track_no = 7
  next_track = "We Are the Dead"
  next_no = 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. [Nicholas Pegg (2000). "The Complete David Bowie": pp.175-175] 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. [David Buckley (1999) "Strange Fascination - David Bowie: The Definitive Story": p.140] 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). [Roy Carr & Charles Shaar Murray (1981). "Bowie: An Illustrated Record": p.62]

  Track listing

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

  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

  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".

  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.

  Notes