LOS ANGELES—Country star Chris Young’s latest single, “Young Love & Saturday Nights,” is a vivid love letter to summertime weekends, old trucks, dive bar bands, and crushes. And it might sound immediately familiar: The guitar lick that opens the track is lifted directly from David Bowie’s 1974 hit “Rebel Rebel.”
Bowie is credited posthumously as a songwriter on the track, making it one of the genre-melding icon’s few forays into country music—noteworthy, because Bowie himself was not quite a fan of the genre.
