Frampton – lead guitar, sitar Philippe Saisse – piano Carmine Rojas – bass guitar Stan Harrison – alto saxophone Steve Elson – baritone saxophone Lenny Pickett – tenor saxophone Earl Gardner – flugelhorn Laurie Frink – trumpet Errol "Crusher" Bennett – percussion Sid McGinnis – lead guitar Mickey Rourke – mid-song rap Robin Clark – backing vocals Lani Groves – backing vocals Diva Gray – backing vocals Gordon Grody – backing vocals Production David Bowie – producer David Richards – producer; assistant mixing engineer Malcolm Pollack – engineer Bob Clearmountain – mixing Bob Ludwig – mastering Mick Haggerty – artwork; design Greg Gorman – photography Andre Gauchat – assistant engineer Jon Goldberger – assistant engineer Christopher A. Scott – assistant engineer Justin Shirley Smith – assistant engineer Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts Sales and certifications } } Never Let Me Down 2018 Bowie considered the idea of re-recording tracks from Never Let Me Down almost immediately after meeting Gabrels in the late 1980s, but the guitarist talked him out of it. Bowie contemplated it later in the 1990s and again in 2008, when he had engineer Mario J. McNulty remix "Time Will Crawl" for the self-selected collection of favourites, iSelect. The same mix was later included on the career-spanning compilation Nothing Has Changed (2014). At the time Bowie had said, "Oh, to redo the rest of that album". In 2018, two years after Bowie's death, the Parlophone label brought the artist's idea to fruition. Early that year, musicians including Gabrels, David Torn, Sterling Campbell, Tim Lefebvre, Nico Muhly and Laurie Anderson started recording in New York's Electric Lady Studios from January to March. Of these musicians, Torn, Campbell, Lefebvre and Gabrels were all selected by Bowie before he died to take a part in the project. In July 2018, it was announced that a new version of the album, titled Never Let Me Down 2018, would be released in October of that year. The album includes "newly 'remixed' artwork", unseen images from the original album's photo-shoot, and was released as part of the 2018 box set Loving the Alien (1983–1988). McNulty used the experience of making the "Time Will Crawl" remix to influence his approach for producing this version of the album. He received the master tapes from the label and "kept all of Bowie's vocals", some of the original acoustic guitars, and "anything distinctive" about the song, such as