David Bowie enjoyed changing the lyrics to famous pop songs by removing the word “love” and replacing it with “k**b”. He and his pals would fall about laughing as they sang classics such as “When a man k**bs a woman’’ and ‘’You’ve lost that k**bbing feeling”.
The Ashes To Ashes star, who died in 2016 aged 69, may have had an image as someone who was distant and cool. But he was actually a very down-to-earth person. And in a new book about the chart legend, it’s revealed how he liked to have a laugh and muck about with other artists’ songs in private.
The Let’s Dance singer and his close friend and drummer John Cambridge were masters at the lyric change game. Author Nick Smart, who has penned a new book about the star called David Bowie: The Collector, said: “The pair mucked about with water pistols and messed about.
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“Their jokey relationship continued when years later at David’s 50th birthday party they played The K**bbing Game whereby they would replace the word ‘love’ in song lyrics with the word ’k**b’.
“Hence All My K**bbing by The Beatles, You’ve Lost That K**bbing Feeling by The Righteous Brothers and the Percy Sledge classic When A Man K**bs A Woman.”
Bowie may have loved a laugh. But he didn’t smile much about his 1967 novelty hit The Laughing Gnome that tells the story of how he met the mythical creature, which has now become a popular garden ornament.
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The childish ditty, featuring a squeaky voiced character, ended up haunting his career later in life. And in an interview he said of the track: “I had to get over that a long time ago. How cringey. I haven’t much to say about that in its favour.
“Lyrically I guess it was really striving to be something, the short story teller. Musically it’s quite bizarre. I don’t know where I was at.”
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