I've cut loose my reindeer
Took the sack off my back
Now I do want my cruising
In a long black Cadillac
You'd better behave like a good little girl
Climb up here in Santa's lap
Let's hang your pretty stockings
before we start to fool around
You'd better behave like a good little girl
Santa Claus is getting down
David Bowie: vocals, alto sax (born David Robert Hayward Jones, 8 January 1947)
Johnny Flux: lead guitar
Jimmy Page: guitar solo (born James Patrick Page, 9 January 1944)
John Watson: bass
Mick White: drums
Bob Solly: organ
Woolf Byrne: baritone sax and harmonica
Paul Rodriguez: tenor sax and trumpet
Jim's Blues / George Wallace is Rollin' in This Mornin' - PJ Proby
This track is notable not just for the inclusion of Jimmy Page, but for featuring the entire lineup of Led Zeppelin before they even recorded their first album. John Paul Jones had been enlisted to arrange and play on Proby's Three Week Hero album months before he joined up with Page, Robert Plant and John Bonham to form the New Yardbirds. When the date came up for this session, rather than blow it off, he apparently decided instead to ask his new bandmates if they wouldn't mind lending a hand, a request to which they readily agreed. This wasn't exactly Page's first go-around with P.J. Proby, either: The guitarist had worked with him years before on his 1964 Top 10 hit "Hold Me."
Unlike many of the sessions that Page sat in on during his early career, this one comes the closest to approximating the sound that would come to define most of his work with Led Zeppelin. With Plant's added harmonica part, and the slow, bluesy tempo and feel, the track actually bears a striking resemblance to Zeppelin's cover of the Muddy Waters classic "You Shook Me." (It should also be pointed out that the Jim named in the song's title isn't Page, but rather Proby himself, who was born James Marcus Smith.)
To celebrate David Bowie's 68th birthday this year, artist Helen Greenmade thisvery fun illustration of David Bowieshowing him change throughout the years in animated GIF form. Bowie has inhabited so many different hairstyles and faces and styles that he almost looks like a different person each time.
Strange fascination, fascinating me
Changes are taking the pace I'm going through
Changes
Pretty soon now you're gonna get older
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
You can see the individual faces in black and whitehere.