China Girl - The Single

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Songs (Time)

UK Release

1. China Girl (Bowie/Pop)
2. Shake It (Bowie)

Release Details

Released by EMI America in the UK and US, May 1983

Catalogue numbers: EA 157 (UK), 12EA 157 (UK), EAP 157 (UK), 8177 (US)

Released in picture sleeve (EA 157 and 8177)

12" single released in picture sleeve (12EA 157)

Picture disc (EAP 157)

Producers

David Bowie, Nile Rodgers (1983)

Musicians

David Bowie: vocals

Carmine Rojas: bass

Nile Rodgers: guitar

Omar Hakim: drums

Tony Thompson: drums

Stevie Ray Vaughan: guitar

Rob Sabino: keyboards

Mac Gollehon: trumpet

Robert Aaron: saxophone

Stan Harrison: saxophone

Steve Elson: saxophone

Sam Figueroa: percussion

Trivia

• The follow-up, China Girl, had orginally been recorded for Iggy Pop's The Idiot album, and in edited form, a 1977 single. David's 1983 revamp devastated the power and grace of Iggy's prototype, serving it up instead as a syrupy bastardization of everything The Idiot had stood for. The little "oriental" guitar motif, which opened the song, was particularly irritating.
• Chart Performance:

  Country	Peak #	# of weeks
  UK	2	8
  US	10	?

This document last updated Friday, 27-Nov-1998 14:03:24 EST