Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
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| Studio album by David Bowie | ||||
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Publication |
1980 |
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| Label (s) | RCA | |||
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Format (s) |
LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
45:37 |
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Tony Visconti , David Bowie |
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Studio (s) |
Power Station, New York |
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Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) , simply called Scary Monsters , is the fourteenth studio album by David Bowie released in September 1980 . After the three previous albums Low , “Heroes” and Lodger , which lyrically deal with Bowie's personal emotions and impressions, the lyrics on Scary Monsters describe contemporary topics such as: B. Street fighting , seduction, fascism and disorientation.
Scary Monsters was commercially more successful than the previous albums and reached number 1 on the British album charts , but Bowie split from the RCA as a record company after this studio album and switched to EMI.
Singles
As singles in August were 1980 Ashes to Ashes (with the numbering RCA BOW6 UK, RCA PB 12078 US), Fashion in October 1980 (as RCA BOW T7 UK, RCA PB 12134 US) and Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (as RCA BOW 8 UK) decoupled.
Track list
Music and lyrics by David Bowie; Except for Kingdom Come by Tom Verlaine .
- It's No Game (Part 1)
- Up the Hill Backwards
- Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
- Ashes to Ashes
- Fashion
- Teenage Wildlife
- Screem like a baby
- Kingdom Come
- Because you're young
- It's No Game (Part 2)
Contributors
Musician
- David Bowie - vocals, keyboards, backing vocals
- Carlos Alomar - rhythm guitar
- Dennis Davis - percussion
- George Murray - bass guitar
Additional musicians
- Chuck Hammer - Guitar Synthesizer on "Ashes to Ashes" and "Teenage Wildlife"
- Roy Bittan - piano
- Robert Fripp - lead guitar
- Andy Clark - synthesizer
- Pete Townshend - lead guitar on Because you're young
- Tony Visconti - backing vocals, acoustic guitar
- Lynn Maitland - backing vocals
- Chris Porter - backing vocals
- Michi Hirota - voice on It's no game (Part 1)
Recording manager
- David Bowie - production
- Tony Visconti - producer, sound engineer
- Larry Alexander - assistant
- Jeff Hendrickson - Assistant
Other contributors
- Edward Bell Photos
- Natasha Kornilof - clown costume
- Hisahi Miura - It's no game translation into Japanese
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heinz Rudolf Kunze : David Bowie - The Favorite . In: Idole 8, Rock & Schock , Verlag Ullstein, 1986, publisher Siegfried Schmidt-Joos , ISBN 3-548-36529-9 , page 135.
- ^ Stuart Hoggard: David Bowie "Changes," an Illustrated Biography . Omnibus Press, London, New York, Sydney, Cologne 1983, ISBN 0-86001-772-9 , page 77.