“When David Bowie and John Lennon came in, the whole place stopped. I stopped recording – and then it was just us”: Carlos Alomar recalls playing guitar on Fame with two rock icons – and why he turned down dinner with a Beatle

Carlos Alomar says he turned down dinner and drinks with David Bowie and John Lennon in order to dedicate himself to working on the guitar parts for their collaborative track, Fame.

Speaking to Guitar World, Alomar says he was in the studio already with Bowie’s Young Americans producer Harry Maslin when Bowie walked in with John Lennon.

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