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usually been directed at his music was applied to
‘seeing [Zowie] grow … and be excited about the
future’. There was just one musical venture that
summer, for which he only had to stroll down the
road: the previous year, he’d agreed to collaborate
on the theme song for Paul Schrager’s remake of
Val Lewton’s classic movie Cat People. The song
was Bowie’s first and only collaboration with Giorgio
Moroder, whose work he’d discovered back in Los
Angeles. The Italian electro pioneer was best-known
for the chattering sequencers of songs like Donna
Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’, but for this song he
constructed a bleak, minimalistic soundscape,
based on the simplest of two-chord changes. Bowie
recorded his languorous, hypnotic vocal over
Moroder’s backing track at Mountain Studios; the
opening minutes would count among the most
magnificent, and restrained, of his career. A modest
success on its release the next April, ‘Cat People
(Putting Out Fires)’ would become one of the most
overlooked Bowie gems until Quentin Tarantino
unearthed it for his Nazi splatter-movie, Inglourious
Basterds, in 2009.
It was during his visits to Mountain – which
eventually became a second home once he
negotiated his own, off-peak, David Bowie discount
– that David reacquainted himself with a fan-turnedrival
who was recording in the main casino studio.
David had met Freddie Mercury back in the
summer of 1970, when the Queen singer worked on
a stall in Kensington Market and fitted Bowie with a
pair of suede boots. Introduced by their mutual