Marilyn Manson and Shooter Jennings Cover David Bowie’s "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)"
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On February 26, country rock musician Shooter Jennings will release his next album Countach (For Giorgio), a collection of Giorgio Moroder covers, on vinyl via Black Country Rock Media. (It’s out digitally March 11.) Included on the album is a cover of “Cat People (Putting Out Fire),” a David Bowie song written with and produced by Giorgio Moroder. The song originally appeared on the Moroder-helmed 1982 soundtrack for the movie Cat People. (Bowie also included a re-worked version of “Cat People” on 1983′s Let’s Dance.) For his cover, Jennings recruited Marilyn Manson. Listen to it above, via Rolling Stone.
Jennings and Manson join a long list of artists who have paid tribute to Bowie. Just in February, Lady Gaga performed a medley of Bowie’s greatest hits at the Grammys; Beck and the surviving members of Nirvana covered “The Man Who Sold the World“; the Flaming Lips played eight Bowie songs at a concert; Arcade Fire shared video from their New Orleans tribute parade; Wilco covered “Space Oddity“; and Coldplay’s Chris Martin sang “Heroes.”
A pair of Bowie tribute concerts featuring Michael Stipe, Pixies, the Roots, Laurie Anderson, and many more will take place at Carnegie Hall on March 31 and April 1.
Read our interview with Rodgers about Bowie, our “Afterword” feature on Bowie, and tributes from Bradford Cox, Carlos Dengler, Thurston Moore, Carlos Alomar, and Jonathan Lethem.
Listen to David Bowie and Giorgio Moroder’s original “Cat People (Putting Out Fire)”:
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