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OMC said:
This was Stevie Ray’s first exposure on a national (world wide) level, wasn’t it? Searing solos.
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Interesting to note:

At the 1982 Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, Bowie saw Stevie Ray Vaughan play guitar. At the time, Vaughan was an unknown 28-year-old blues guitarist from Texas; his debut album with his band Double Trouble was still unreleased. After Vaughan's performance, Bowie was so impressed with the guitarist that he tracked him down months later to get him to play lead guitar on the album. Rodgers was initially unimpressed with Bowie's choice of Vaughan, believing he sounded like American blues guitarist Albert King. Bowie however felt Vaughan was different, telling him, "he's got a whole other thing going on."

"Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" was recorded in 1981 by Bowie and Giorgio Moroder as the theme song for the 1982 film Cat People. Bowie was unhappy with the original version and asked Rodgers to remake it for Let's Dance. O'Leary describes the remake as "more aggressive". He praises Vaughan's guitar solo as superior to the original, but criticises Bowie's vocals as inferior. Pegg also considers the Let's Dance version to be inferior and laments that the remake became the better known version.

So, Vaughan is not on the movie version - which I actually prefer to the version on Let's Dance.
 
djdavedk said:
Interesting to note:

At the 1982 Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, Bowie saw Stevie Ray Vaughan play guitar. At the time, Vaughan was an unknown 28-year-old blues guitarist from Texas; his debut album with his band Double Trouble was still unreleased. After Vaughan's performance, Bowie was so impressed with the guitarist that he tracked him down months later to get him to play lead guitar on the album. Rodgers was initially unimpressed with Bowie's choice of Vaughan, believing he sounded like American blues guitarist Albert King. Bowie however felt Vaughan was different, telling him, "he's got a whole other thing going on."

"Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" was recorded in 1981 by Bowie and Giorgio Moroder as the theme song for the 1982 film Cat People. Bowie was unhappy with the original version and asked Rodgers to remake it for Let's Dance. O'Leary describes the remake as "more aggressive". He praises Vaughan's guitar solo as superior to the original, but criticises Bowie's vocals as inferior. Pegg also considers the Let's Dance version to be inferior and laments that the remake became the better known version.

So, Vaughan is not on the movie version - which I actually prefer to the version on Let's Dance.
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Good catch! Just looked at the credits of my original soundtrack and see you are correct. Guitarists on the soundtrack are Michael Landau, Tim May and Morodor himself. Sold my Let’s Dance copy so can’t compare the two. 👍4EA7B83A-23FC-4E39-AE1C-53D0F2C2F6A3.jpeg
 
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