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"Yassassin" (Bowie's pronunciation ) (also known as "Yassassin (Turkish for: Long Live)", and released in Turkey as "Yassassin (Yaşasın)") is a song written by David Bowie for the 1979 album Lodger. "Yassassin" is an incongruous reggae song with a Turkish flavour, and the third single to be released from Lodger, but only in the Netherlands and Turkey.
The song's title is derived from the Turkish verb used to wish someone a long life, spelled yaşasın , from the verbal root yaşa- 'live' with the third-person imperative ending; therefore yaşasın literally means 'May he/she live'.
Yassassin is an EP of the band Litfiba produced by Contempo records. The vinyl works like other prayers, has never been reissued on CD, is there any way to say that all tracks have been reproposed: Electrica danza was published in the collection CD King of silence, while the other two tracks were reiterated in the individual Forbidden always 33 rpm. The two versions of "Yassassin" (track one and three) are different from each other, the track is a long-play version of 7 minutes while the third is 4 ½ minutes.