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| David Bowie – All the Young Dudes Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Hi Toki. The reference to Freddie being Freddie Mercury can not be right. All the Young Dudes was written in 1972, Queen were unheard of at this time. |
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| David Bowie – All the Young Dudes Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Hey Billybud.
It is widly reported the SC was in fact offered to Mott The Hoople by David before he recorded it.
http://www.5years.com/suffc.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mott_the_Hoople
http://www.hunter-mott.com/discography/atyd.html
I am using Gerry Hopkins Biography 'Bowie' as the reference on this point.
I believe your story is true about Drive In Saturday being rejected and causing David to shave off his eyebrows! |
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| David Bowie – Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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You should read Jerry Hopkins Biography 'Bowie'
The Aladdin Sane title was clearly tied together with his Brother's illness as it was in Hunky Dory. He confirmed that in interviews later. Bowie had read Evelyn Waugh's 1930 novel 'Vile bodies' about a future world where bright young things danced in the face of the holocaust. He wrote it sitting in an armchair on the QE2 and recorded it at the Trident Studios in Soho London on his return.
Agree totally about Mike Garson. Brilliant! By the way, if you love that piano, it's the same one heard on Hey Jude, Harry Nilsson's Without You, Elton John's Your Song and many other tracks. It was a handmade Beckstein that was over 100 years old. |
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| David Bowie – Drive-In Saturday Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Bowie wrote Drive in Saturday on a train somewhere between Seattle and Phoenix whilst touring in the U.S. He was scared of flying at this time so always took trains and ships. Bowie reportedly looked out at a bleak landscape in the moonlight and saw enormous silver domes which inspired him to write. He saw a world after a nuclear catastrophe where the radiation had affected people’s minds and they had to learn to make love again by watching it in films. Bowie's abstract song writing at it's best. |
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| David Bowie – All the Young Dudes Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Lol ejownz6. A few inaccuracies. Firstly Mott the Hoople was a group, not a guy! Ian Hunter was lead singer and Mick Ralphs played lead guitar. Bowie wrote this song but it was never on Aladdin Sane. He also produced it for the band because they were friends and had never had a hit. Bowie wrote Drive in Saturday on a train somewhere between Seattle and Phoenix and it was never offered to the band. Suffragette City was. See PtolemyKitty's previous entry, and some of the others. They are 100% correct. |
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| David Bowie – Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?) Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Written aboard the QE2 in December 72 (David hated flying at this time) and inspired by Bowie's travels around the United States. The song and album title were actually a play on words refering to his Brother Terry who later died in a mental hospital near London, Cain Hill Hospital. |
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| David Bowie – Cracked Actor Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Agree with all 3 comments so far. The song was written after Bowie had travelled to Los Angeles for the first time and seen the aftermath of Hollywood gone wrong. His observations became this song. |
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| David Bowie – An Occasional Dream Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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A beautiful song about David's first love Hermoine Farthingale. You can just feel the love he must have felt about her. Truly magnificent. |
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| David Bowie – Letter to Hermione Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This beautiful and haunting Bowie song is about David's first ever girlfriend, Hermoine Farthingale. Both this song and Occasional Dream are related to his break up with Hermoine in early 1969. |
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| David Bowie – Memory of a Free Festival Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The song refers to a free concert and festival that David and friends put on at Beckenham in London on Saturday 16th August 1969. It was around the time his Father passed away. Friends of David's report him being in a bad mood (Understandably) that day and were surprised when he recorded the song about it. It was around this time he started to go out with Angie. |
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| Crowded House – Private Universe Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The song is about how Neil felt after talking to a Queensland Radio Announcer about a near death experience. The birds talking refers to the announcer thinking that birds talked to him. I know this because I was able to ask Neil about it several years ago. Its just the most atmospheric song. |
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