“We were talking about writing, and John said, ‘It’s very easy. This is all you have to do.’” David Bowie said John Lennon revealed his three rules for songwriting to him

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When the opportunity to meet John Lennon arose that year, Bowie was beside himself. But while Bowie never dabbled in the Beatles’ style of pop, but he was enamored of the group, and John Lennon in particular. He was tremendous, you know?”David Bowie On John Lennon - YouTube Watch OnBy 1974, Bowie had moved to New York, the same city to which Lennon had emigrated in 1971. “He was terrified of meeting John Lennon,” he recalled. David Bowie • Fame • Live 1978 - YouTube Watch OnBut Bowie got considerably more than a hit out of his collaboration.