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They took place in 1984.

Hint: It wasn't Nile Rodgers.

Fans have speculated for years that band's frontman wrote the song to appease Angela Bowie.

The 1974 track served as the basis for Chris Young's "Young Love & Saturday Nights."

Co-writer Iggy Pop had already released a widely ignored earlier version.

Mid-'70s were not an easy era for the former Stooges frontman, then an old friend arrived.

This was his most commercially successful album at that point, reaching No. 1 in the U.K. and No. 17 in the U.S.

"It's as fresh as it was then," his trusted pianist Mike Garson says.

He recorded the No. 2 U.K. hit in an hour, but there was a memorable mistake along the way.

He saw something at night while on tour in America that prompted him to pull out his notebook.