Hunky Dory

Hunky Dory
Studio album by David Bowie
Publication (s)	17th December 1971
admission	1971
Label (s)	RCA Records
Format (s)	LP
Genre (s)	Rock , folk rock , glam rock
Title (number)	11
running time	41:37
occupation	Vocals , guitar , saxophone , piano : David Bowie Guitar, vocals, mellotron , arrangements: Mick Ronson Piano: Rick Wakeman Bass , trumpet : Trevor Bolder Drums : Mick Woodmansey
production	Ken Scott , David Bowie
Studio (s)	Trident Studios, London
chronology The Man Who Sold the World (1970) Hunky Dory The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)

Hunky Dory (back then in England slang term for "all good") is David Bowie's fourth studio album, which was released in December 1971 on RCA Records .

Emergence

The album was first produced by Bowie himself, in collaboration with Ken Scott . Tony Visconti , who had already appeared as a musician and producer on Space Oddity and The Man Who Sold the World , did not participate in the sessions. The recordings took place in Trident Studios in London in April of the year of publication . The later The Spiders from Mars , who were to become Bowie's regular backing band in the Ziggy Stardust times, already played on the album.

success

The album received good reviews when it was released, but initially only sold moderately. After the success of the subsequent album Ziggy Stardust , Hunky Dory also reached number 3 in the UK charts. Also the single Life on Mars, subsequently released by RCA in 1973 ? climbed to number 3 on the UK Singles Chart and claimed that number for 13 weeks. The US edition of Rolling Stone chose the album at number 108 of the 500 best albums of all time .

Track list

All songs were written by David Bowie. Exceptions are indicated.

page 1

1. Changes
2. Oh! You Pretty Things
3. Eight Line Poem
4. Life on Mars?
5. Kooks
6. Quicksand

Page 2

1. Fill Your Heart (Biff Rose / Paul Williams)
2. Andy Warhol
3. Song for Bob Dylan
4. Queen Bitch
5. The Bewlay Brothers

Bonus title on a limited special edition (30 years of Hunky Dory)

1. Bombers
2. The supermen
3. Quicksand (demo version)
4. The Bewlay Brothers

Bowie honors artists who have influenced his work in several pieces: Andy Warhol , Bob Dylan and in Queen Bitch Velvet Underground . He dedicates the song Kooks to his son Duncan Jones , whom he called Zowie , which is why the dedication on the back of the album cover is "for small Z." reads.

Web links

• Hunky Dory at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Levy, Joe (Ed.): Rolling Stone. The 500 best albums of all time . (Original edition: Rolling Stone. The 500 Greatest Albums of all Time . Wenner Media 2005). Translation: Karin Hofmann. Wiesbaden: White Star Verlag, 2011, p. 106