to smoke more cigarettes, to give my voice a certain quality." Regarding meeting her in the "Last Supper" at the Hotel Café Royal, Bowie later said, "We started talking about the possibility of working together. I was keen to get something fixed up, because I really have always thought that Lulu has incredible potential as a rock singer. I didn't think this potential had been fully realised...we decided on 'The Man Who Sold The World' as being most suitable." Bowie produced Lulu's recording of "The Man Who Sold the World" with Mick Ronson during the July 1973 Pin Ups sessions at the Château d'Hérouville in Hérouville, France and also contributed saxophone and backing vocals. The remainder of the band included Ronson on guitar, Trevor Bolder on bass, Mike Garson on piano, and Aynsley Dunbar on drums. Bowie added saxophone overdubs and oversaw the final mix at Olympic Studios in London during the Diamond Dogs sessions. According to O'Leary, Bowie had Lulu smoke cigarettes in between takes in order to "abrade" her voice. Lulu's version of "The Man Who Sold the World" was released as a single on 11 January 1974 by Polydor Records (as 2001 490), with a cover Bowie's Aladdin Sane track "Watch That Man" as the B-side. She promoted her version with an appearance on the British television programme Top of the Pops on 10 January, in which she performed in a charcoal suit and gangster hat. According to Pegg, this outfit bore a "remarkable resemblance" to the wardrobe of Bowie's future persona the Thin White Duke. Neil Bartlett characterised her performances as "dressed and sounding exactly like a diminutive Bowie". Her performances helped the single peak at No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart, as well as No. 8 on the Irish Singles Chart, and No. 24 and 10 on the Belgian and Netherlands Singles Charts, respectively. O'Leary writes that the single charted higher than almost all of Bowie's 1970s singles and made his original recording "seem like a demo". Jack Whatley of Far Out magazine writes that while Nirvana's cover is "the stuff of legend", it is Lulu's version of the song that "has us spellbound from its first sleazy moments." He argues that she has the "perfect voice" for the track and calls the video a "seventies dream." He further calls her first Top of the Pops performance "stunning, arresting, and a silky smooth affair,