Girls (Tina Turner song)

"Girls" was written by David Bowie and Erdal Kızılçay, and produced by Terry Britten. It was released as a single in 1986.^[2] Tina Turner released a live version of the song on her album Tina Live in Europe (1988).^[3]

Bowie recorded his own version of the song in 1986 during the Never Let Me Down (1987) sessions, including one track with vocals sung in English and another with vocals sung in Japanese. The song was originally intended to appear on the album itself,^[4] but instead both versions appeared as B-sides for different formats of the "Time Will Crawl" single in June 1987; the "extended edit" of the English-language song also appeared as a bonus track on the 1995 Virgin Records reissue of Never Let Me Down,^[5] and later on the box set Loving the Alien (1983-1988).^[4]

The song was critiqued by Bowie biographer Nicholas Pegg, who, though he considered it better than some of the lesser tracks on the album, found that it "[degenerated] into a standard Never Let Me Down sax-and-guitar romp". Pegg noted influences on the lyrics and musical composition of "Girls" that include Bowie's earlier work "Andy Warhol", Ennio Morricone's "Chi Mai" and even the sci-fi movie Blade Runner (1982).^[5]