Beauty And The Beast - The Single

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Songs (Time)

UK Release

1. Beauty And The Beast (Bowie)
2. Sense Of Doubt (Bowie)

Release Details

Released by RCA in the UK, January 1978

Catalogue number: PB 1190 (UK)

Released in picture sleeve

US Release

1. Beauty And The Beast (Bowie)
2. Fame (Bowie/Lennon/Alomar)

Release Details

Released by RCA in the US, January 1978

Catalogue number: JD 11204 (UK)

Released in picture sleeve

Beauty And The Beast/Sense Of Doubt

Producers

David Bowie, Tony Visconti (1977)

Musicians

David Bowie: vocals, guitar, sax and keyboards

Brian Eno: synthesizer

Robert Fripp: guitar

Carlos Alomar: guitar

George Murray: bass

Dennis Davis: drums

Fame

Producers

David Bowie, Harry Maslin (1974)

Musicians

David Bowie: vocals and guitar

John Lennon: vocals and guitar

Carlos Alomar: guitar

Emir Kassan: bass

Dennis Davis: drums

Ralph McDonald: percussion

Trivia

• For some time now, the choice of singles released had been growing more and more eccentric, RCA seemingly pulling tracks from LPs with little regard for suitability. Thus, while Heroes made a tremendous 45, Beauty And The Beast simply foundered, both musically and artistically.
• Chart Performance:

  Country	Peak #	# of weeks
  UK	39	3

This document last updated Friday, 09-Oct-1998 20:06:36 EDT