David Bowie wrote Mott The Hoople’s big hit song “All The Young Dudes” in about an hour, after the band rejected the first song he’d written them — “Suffragette City”, which Bowie made into a hit on his next album, Ziggy Stardust.

Joe Tex insultingly name-checked James Brown in a song on Checker Records, and James Brown responded by shooting up a Joe Tex live show with a shotgun — nearly killing Otis Redding, who was opening.

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