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DAVID BOWIE – 52 Years Ago The Late Musical Genius Released Stellar Single ‘CHANGES’

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Top singles from the past

7 January 2024

DAVID BOWIE (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016) released
the stellar single CHANGES. It was part of his 1971 album
Hunky Dory

Bowie: “It started out as a parody of a
nightclub song, a kind of throwaway”.

Solid gold classic.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Turn and face the strange
Ch-ch-changes
Don’t want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Turn and face the strange
Ch-ch-changes
There’s gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can’t trace time

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DAVID BOWIE – 4th LP ‘HUNKY DORY’ Released 50 Years Ago Today

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17 December 2021

Artist: DAVID BOWIE
8 januari 1947 – New York, 10 januari 2016
R.I.P.

Anniversary album: HUNKY DORY – his 4th LP
Released: 17 December 1971 – 50 years ago today
Charts: #3 in the UK

AllMusic: “Hunky Dory is a kaleidoscopic array of pop styles,
tied together only by Bowie’s sense of vision: a sweeping, cinematic
mélange of high and low art, ambiguous sexuality, kitsch, and class.”
Score: 5/5.

Turn Up The Volume: His first commercial success. The top-tier
harbinger for masterpiece The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and
the Spiders from Mars released a year later.

Singles: Changes / Life On Mars

– CHANGES –

– LIFE ON MARS –

Stream full album here…

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UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA Cover DAVID BOWIE’s Hunky Dory Oldie… ‘OH! YOU PRETTY THINGS’

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20 June 2018

New Zealand s pop collective UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA released their fourth
full length Sex & Food  last April. They’ve been touring the globe since then and recently stopped by Canadian indie rock radio  Sirius XMU to record a playful cover of David Bowie’s Hunky Dory LP classic ‘Oh! You Pretty Things’. Here’s UMO’s energetic rendition…

The masterly original…

DAVID BOWIE Changed 45 Years Ago…

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When it’s timeless in sound & and vision, it’s a…

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‘Changes’ by DAVID BOWIE

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Forty-five years ago today – on 7 January 1972 – DAVID BOWIE released CHANGES as a
single in the UK, with acoustic song ‘Andy Warhol‘ as B-side. Both tracks were on his 4th album Hunky Dory. Despite only reaching No 49 on the charts, this is one of The Thin White Duke‘s best known and highly praised songs. The late legend said at the time:
“it started out as a parody of a nightclub song, a kind of throwaway”. A compositional diamond about artistic development it became! With Mick Ronson on strings, Rick
Wakeman (once a Yes man) on keyboards, some sultry saxophone in the end by the
man himself and an overall passionate vocal performance. Intriguing and hypnotizing.
A true classic…

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