“Real Cool World” by David Bowie

"Real Cool World" was David Bowie's song for Cool World, the 1992 animated black comedy, and Warner Bros. released it as a single on 10 August 1992. Bowie wrote it and sang both lead and backing vocals, even blowing the saxophone himself, while Nile Rodgers, the producer behind Let's Dance, produced and played guitar, with Hugo Dwyer engineering. It was the first song out of a year-long partnership the two began in the first half of 1992.

Bowie's plan afterwards was a third Tin Machine album, but the band fell apart, so he and Rodgers made his next solo record, Black Tie White Noise (1993), instead. "Real Cool World" later came back as a bonus track on that album's 2003 reissue.

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