History Trivia / NeverLetMeDown

* DevelopmentHell: The 2018 remix is an unusual case of this in the sense that it was the ''planning'' stage that heavily stagnated, rather than the actual production.
** Bowie had been planning a do-over of ''Never Let Me Down'' since ''the very year it was released'', first bringing up the idea to Reeves Gabrels in late 1987. Gabrels, however, shot the idea down, stating that it had been too soon since the original album appeared on store shelves. Bowie agreed with Gabrels, and put the idea off.
** He next brought the idea up just before the recording sessions for ''Music/{{Earthling}}'' in 1996, but again, it failed to materialize for whatever reason.
** A ''Never Let Me Down'' redo wouldn't be brought up again until 2008, with the production of Mario J. [=McNulty's=] remix of "Time Will Crawl" for the ''[=iSelect=]'' compilation album, with Bowie stating in the linear notes "oh, to redo the rest of the album..."
** Unfortunately, Bowie would end up [[DiedDuringProduction dying]] before his prospect of a ''Never Let Me Down'' do-over could come to fruition, but he was able to hand-pick some of the session musicians who participated in the recording of new backing instrumentals for the album's redo, which would finally be recorded quite smoothly during the first quarter of 2018. The do-over that Bowie had spent the last 29 years of his life yearning for would finally see an official release on October 12, 2018, exclusively as part of the ''Loving the Alien (1983-1988)'' BoxedSet.

* CreatorBacklash: Like ''Music/{{Tonight}}'' before it, Bowie had hardly a kind word to say about ''Never Let Me Down'' in the years following its release, to the point where his official website initially omitted it from his discography. In particular, Bowie's distaste for the album's penultimate track, "Too Dizzy", has become the stuff of legends among his fans, to the point where Mario J. [=McNulty=] (the producer of ''Never Let Me Down 2018'') openly stated that he would never consider remixing that particular song. The details for ''why'' Bowie hated that one track so fervently are detailed under KeepCirculatingTheTapes below.

* NamesTheSame: Despite sharing a release year and having similar titles, the album and title track are unrelated to the Music/DepecheMode song "[[Music/MusicForTheMasses Never Let Me Down]] '''[[Music/MusicForTheMasses Again]]'''".

* BuryYourArt: While Bowie expressed open regret for much of his output during the '80s, he reserved his heaviest (yet least-vocalized) vitriol for "Too Dizzy", banning it from ever seeing the light of day again after the album's original 1987 release. Bowie's labels and his estate have adhered to his request to this day, not even including it in the otherwise comprehensive BoxedSet ''Loving the Alien (1983-1988)''. Bowie himself dismissed "Too Dizzy" as a throwaway song and described it as his least favorite track on his least favorite album, while biographer Nicholas Pegg attributes the self-imposed ban to the song's unintentionally creepy lyrics, being a jealousy song that accidentally came off as a stalker anthem.

** Shortly after ''Never Let Me Down''[='s=] 1987 release, Bowie publicly expressed his excitement to return to the studio immediately after the then-upcoming Glass Spider Tour, aiming to create a more musically experimental follow-up in the vein of [[Music/LowDavidBowieAlbum his]] [[Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum Berlin]] [[Music/{{Lodger}} Trilogy]]. However, the disastrous critical and fan reception of both ''Never Let Me Down'' and the tour affected Bowie to such a degree that he dropped his plans for the follow-up album and instead formed Tin Machine as a means of artistically rejuvenating himself. Supposedly, the tracks "Lucy Can't Dance" & "Pretty Pink Rose" and a cover of [[Music/BobDylan "Like a Rolling Stone"]] were originally planned for inclusion on this aborted album, but were eventually repurposed in different forms on later projects.[[note]]"Lucy Can't Dance" was re-recorded in an acid jazz style as a bonus track on initial CD releases of ''Music/BlackTieWhiteNoise'' in 1993; "Pretty Pink Rose" was re-recorded as a duet with Music/KingCrimson frontman and prior Bowie collaborator Adrian Belew for the latter's 1990 solo album ''Young Lions''; the "Like a Rolling Stone" cover was recorded with former [[Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars Spiders from Mars]] member Mick Ronson on guitar and included on his 1994 posthumous album ''Heaven and Hull''.[[/note]] Bowie would eventually make a SpiritualSuccessor to the Berlin trilogy in the form of 1993's ''Music/TheBuddhaOfSuburbia'', but the one that was intended to follow ''Never Let Me Down'' never really came to fruition.