All the young dudes
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| Studio album by Mott the Hoople | ||||
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September 8, 1972 |
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| Label (s) | Columbia Records | |||
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LP |
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Title (number) |
9 |
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40:47 |
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Studio (s) |
Olympic Studios , Trident Studios ( London ) |
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All the Young Dudes is the fifth studio album by the British rock band Mott the Hoople . It was produced by David Bowie and belongs to glam rock . The music magazine Rolling Stone ranks it 484th on its list of the 500 best albums of all time . The title song, previously released as a single and written by David Bowie, was a surprise success and rose to number 3 in the UK Top 40 .
useful information
In early 1972, the band was about to break up after the existing record deal was dissolved by Island Records . Overend Watts then asked David Bowie for an engagement as a bassist. Instead, he offered the band a piece he had written and gave them the opportunity to record it with him as a producer . The first offered piece Suffragette City turned down the band, but then accepted the offer to first record the title All the Young Dudes and then a full album. The management wanted to take over the costs from David Bowie. In keeping with the music, Bowie changed the band's image in favor of a style typical of glam rock with make-up and glittery costumes. Bowie offered the finished single CBS on the label immediately paid an advance of 25,000 GBP and published the song in the summer of 1972. In September, the album was released.
The first track on the album is a cover version of a song by The Velvet Underground from their 1970 album Loaded . It was written by Lou Reed . Except for this song and the title track, all the songs on the album were written by the band members.
Track list
- Sweet Jane ( Lou Reed ) - 4:21
- Momma's Little Jewel ( Ian Hunter , Peter Watts) - 4:26
- All the Young Dudes ( David Bowie ) - 3:32
- Sucker (Hunter, Mick Ralphs, Watts) - 5:03
- Jerkin 'Crocus (Hunter) - 4:00
- One of the Boys (Hunter, Ralphs) - 6:46
- Soft Ground (Verden Allen) - 3:17
- Ready for Love / After Lights (Ralphs) - 6:47
- Sea Diver (Hunter) - 2:53
reception
Tony Drayton notes in the Rough Guide to Rock that producer David Bowie made the band sound the way he imagined their music on the album by replacing prog rock jams with hooklines and lively choruses . The Billboard Magazine noted in his review that it Mott the Hoople succeeded thanks to the support from David Bowie to step out of the mass of unknown British band. Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic writes in his review that the album was created to make Mott the Hoople stars and that it was one of the people who defined glam rock. Rolling Stone magazine's Bob Scoppa described the album as an extravagant mixture of “powerful and melodic rock'n'roll” in his contemporary review and praised the ballad Sea Diver as the “dark and mystical end to the album”.
literature
- Tony Drayton: Mott the Hoople . In: Peter Buckley (Ed.): The Rough Guide to Rock . Rough Guides, 2003, ISBN 978-1-84353-105-0 , pp. 701 f .
Web links
- All the Young Dudes at Allmusic (English)
- Bud Scoppa: Mott the Hoople: All the Young Dudes. In: Rolling Stone. December 7, 1972, accessed March 5, 2014 .