David Bowie - Hunky Dory (1971) [Full Album]

Hunky Dory is the fourth studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released in the United Kingdom on 17 December 1971 through RCA Records. Following a break from touring and recording, Bowie settled down to write new songs, composing on piano rather than guitar as in earlier works. Bowie assembled guitarist Mick Ronson, bassist Trevor Bolder, and drummer Mick Woodmansey, and began to record a new album in mid-1971 at Trident Studios in London. Rick Wakeman contributed on piano shortly before joining Yes. Bowie co-produced the album with Ken Scott, who had engineered Bowie's previous two records.

Compared to the guitar-driven hard rock sound of The Man Who Sold the World, Bowie opted for a warmer, more melodic piano-based pop rock and art pop style on Hunky Dory. His lyrical concerns on the record range from the compulsive nature of artistic reinvention on "Changes", to occultism and Nietzschean philosophy on "Oh! You Pretty Things" and "Quicksand"; several songs make cultural and literary references. He was also inspired by his United States tour to write songs dedicated to three American icons: Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, and Lou Reed. The song "Kooks" was dedicated to Bowie's newborn son Duncan. The album's cover artwork, photographed in monochrome and subsequently recoloured, features Bowie in a pose inspired by actresses of the Hollywood Golden Age.

Tracklist:
00:00 Changes
03:35 Oh! You Pretty Things
06:47 Eight Line Poem
09:43 Life On Mars?
13:39 Kooks
16:30 Quicksand
21:38 Fill Your Hearts
24:44 Andy Warhol
28:40 Song For Bob Dylan
32:54 Queen Bitch
36:13 The Bewlay Brothers

Personnel
Album credits per the Hunky Dory liner notes and biographer Nicholas Pegg:
David Bowie – vocals, guitar, alto and tenor saxophone, piano ("Oh! You Pretty Things", "Eight Line Poem")
Mick Ronson – guitar, vocals, Mellotron, arrangements, recorder ("Life on Mars?")
Trevor Bolder – bass guitar, trumpet
Mick Woodmansey – drums
Rick Wakeman – piano
Ken Scott – ARP synthesiser ("Andy Warhol")

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