Yassassin
| "Yassassin" | ||||||||||
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| Single by David Bowie | ||||||||||
| from the album Lodger | ||||||||||
| B-side | "Repetition" (Netherlands) "Red Money" (Turkey) |
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| Released | June 1979 (Netherlands) | |||||||||
| Format | 7″ single | |||||||||
| Recorded | Mountain Studios, Montreux; September 1978; Record Plant Studios, New York City, March 1979 | |||||||||
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| Length | 3:06 (single version) 4:10 (album version) |
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RCA Records PB-9417 (Netherlands) 79.014 (Turkey) |
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| Writer(s) | David Bowie | |||||||||
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"Yassassin" (Bowie's pronunciation /jɑːˈsɑːsɪn/; also known as "Yassassin (Turkish for: Long Live)", and released in Turkey as "Yassassin (Yaşasın)") is a song written by David Bowie for the 1979 album Lodger. "Yassassin" is an incongruous reggae song with a Turkish flavour, and the third single to be released from Lodger, but only in the Netherlands and Turkey.
The song's title is derived from the Turkish verb used to wish someone a long life, spelled yaşasın (pronounced [jaʃaˈsɯn]), from the verbal root yaşa- 'live' with the third-person imperative ending; therefore yaşasın literally means 'may he/she live'.
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