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Everything's going hunky-dory until Will goes to wash his hands.

Entrepreneurs are listening, they want to know, and everything's not hunky-dory.

He doesn't act as if everything is hunky dory between the two.

Bowie had the Lauren Bacall look featured on the Hunky Dory cover.

GASPARINO: Well, listen, everything looked hunky-dory in late 2007 to early 2008.

Warhol's statement, in the eponymous song from Hunky Dory in 1971, is deadly

All was hunky dory, until his wife killed herself and his daughter turned against him.

If only they could get rid of Camille, they figure, life would be hunky-dory.

Si hubiese que elegir un himno, sería "Changes", de su álbum de 211, Hunky Dory.

On the one hand, Airbnb wants everything to be hunky dory in its biggest market.

If "Space Oddity" was Bowie's breakout single, 214's Hunky Dory was his breakout album.

Things are hunky-dory till Lalita decides that she will marry one of her two friends.

I'd like to say everything ended up hunky-dory, but that's not how the world works.

"It's not like passengers are going to queue up and say now things are hunky-dory."

He traveled to New York in 211, around the time he released "Hunky Dory," his fourth album.

So don't expect everything to be hunky-dory between Washington and the other trade blocks anytime soon.

The Obama administration reported in January 583, shortly before Trump took office, that everything was hunky-dory.

The band chose "Quicksand," a cut that originally closed out the "A" side of Bowie's Hunky Dory album.

Expect a new round of "everything is hunky dory" back-patting from the company's executives at that time.

On Friday, Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May held hands and pretended that everything was hunky dory.

My friend Claire opened up a place called Hunky Dory on Franklin Avenue, which I love to visit.

The set features homages to the album covers for Hunky Dory, Aladdin Sane, Heroes, Let's Dance, Earthling, and Blackstar.

No one who knows anything thinks that McConnell and Trump are now -- or ever will be -- hunky dory. 2.

The Hosts still can't hurt the Guests, the staff still remains nominally in control, and everything is hunky dory.

"I keep saying that we are trying to turn liquid into liquid," said Claire Sprouse, an owner of Hunky Dory.

And appears to be voluntarily wearing rose-colored glasses by seeing only the places where everything is going hunky dory. 5.

I'd like to tell you that everything will be hunky-dory once Nougat arrives, but the problem goes much deeper than that.

It wasn't until he pulled the stops out and dumped the fey approach of "Hunky Dory" that his career really took off.

The $28 million is mainly for bottled water, filters and a study on what it'll take to get everything hunky dory again.

You want to make it seem like everything is happy and hunky-dory, but there are a lot of very challenging moments.

If a trucker is just happily doing his job, thinking that everything's going to be hunky dory, that's probably a good thing.

Dan's all hunky dory on his new gig — until he realizes he's becoming Tom's Gary, getting him coffee and wiping lint away.

But why is six months the seemingly magic amount of time in which things go from hunky-dory to a little more tricky?

He seemed to disappear for a few years after that, until Hunky Dory appeared in 1971 and I discovered him all over again.

The three of them are just the best of friends, and everything seems hunky-dory, which means that they won't be for long.

If relationships are unhealthy, this can accentuate power imbalances, but if everything's hunky dory, you will feel even deeper for those you care for.

There are two ways to view parity: We can believe that every city is created equal, in which case everything is just hunky-dory.

At first, it seemed things were hunky-dory, because the teaser to the track that Tekashi posted on Instagram included the Fashion Nova lyric.

It's not all hunky-dory in the world of emerging markets but financial markets clearly see the momentum there and are rewarding them for it.

And there's no need to keep on playing "Ziggy Stardust," and "Hunky Dory," or "Heroes" over and over, because I know them so well anyway.

What Conway appears to be arguing here is because Trump doesn't say the actual words "2020" or "quid pro quo" then it's all hunky dory.

After years of drifting between genres and never quite appearing comfortable in his own skin, Hunky Dory is the record where everything seemed to come together.

He defined the theatrical glam rock movement with the albums "Hunky Dory", "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars", and "Aladdin Sane".

How Bowie fearlessly changed music Bowie's history on the Billboard 200 dates back nearly 44 years, when "Hunky Dory" bowed on the chart dated April 15, 1972.

Sitting at the pinnacle of this persona, a counterparts of sorts to Hunky Dory, is The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

The only one speaking out publicly is their president, who is saying the US–Ukraine relationship post-impeachment trial is hunky-dory, if not better than before.

Thanks to Aurora's blissful ignorance, the two fall in love, and everything seems hunky-dory (I mean, despite the impending death thing), until Arthur accidentally spills the beans.

Also from "Hunky Dory," it's told with surreal imagery, from multiple points of view, but as a human-condition song that implicates everybody, in one way or another.

And between March 29, and the Fed discussions of April 26-27 — a mere four weeks later — everything was hunky-dory, it was time to think of hiking?

Clyburn also made clear on Saturday -- before the vote was final -- that even though he had endorsed Biden, he didn't think things were hunky dory in the campaign.

Does this mean that everything is hunky-dory, and that these technology and market shifts have put us on a glide path to staying below two degrees Celsius?

Here's hoping everything will be hunky-dory for all you Bowie devotees — and that you might carry a memento of the musician in your wallet, station to station.

The lot, called Backstage Pass: David Bowie, includes epic pics from the '70s and '80s -- including one with John Lennon -- and a record from Bowie's "Hunky Dory" recording sessions.

Everything was hunky-dory until late in the evening, when Michael claims someone struck him in the mouth, face and head multiple times before the assailant fled the joint.

The government has accused the management of being "well aware of the precarious and critical financial position", but continuing to present "a hunky-dory scenario which was just a mirage".

Things started off hunky-dory for Les Bleus, as Demitri Payet's laser-guided foot found the tiniest chunk of Olivier Giroud's noggin to slap back a tremendous back-headed goal.

Because the new hunky-dory dynamics of inter-Korean reconciliation may deter the full enforcement of sanctions and any aggressive response by the United States once tensions rise yet again.

John Kasich — the seemingly kind and avuncular Governor of Ohio who defunded Planned Parenthood — is the perfect candidate if you think life is hunky-dory, but you also kinda hate women.

This fact is driven home today by a new cover of the David Bowie Hunky Dory classic "Life on Mars?" made, for some reason, by bleating R&B Lothario Trey Songz.

So of course this week started with… everything just hunky-dory, and Rick getting ready for his day while a photo of smiling Ol' One-Eyed Carl sat on his dresser.

Barry's clinging to the remnants of the American dream, but he's still under the illusion that everything's hunky-dory in America — that the rest of the country still has a chance.

Hunky Dory, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, began its takeout service with Irish coffees and later sold martini packages, which included three bottled martinis for two, garnishes and two glasses for $55.

Everyone knows that major revisions are needed, but no one knows what to do about it except to kick the can down the road and act like everything is hunky-dory.

White appeared on "The Dan Patrick Show" and said everything is hunky-dory between the two -- despite the fact he yanked CM off the UFC 200 card for refusing to do promotion.

Normal apocalyptic stories come from a place that assumes now is worse than then, but these four walls called reality puts pressure on the idea that the social world was hunky-dory before.

His album Hunky Dory (1971) featured the classic "Changes" and "Life on Mars," but it was The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), which shot him to superstardom.

Several retrospectives have proved popular as well, with 1972's The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, Hunky Dory from the same year and Aladdin Sane from '73 proving the most popular.

Maybe they'll go on the news to make ever-so-sincere statements of concern over Trump's rhetoric, since it's clear to every reasonable person that the world was just hunky-dory before Trump and Pence came along.

TROON, Scotland (Reuters) - Keegan Bradley may have landed in a spot of bother for cheeky off-the-course antics at the British Open this week but on Royal Troon's fairways and greens everything is hunky dory for him.

Six of the stamps bear images of album covers for "Hunky Dory", "Aladdin Sane", "Heroes", "Let's Dance", "Earthling" and "Blackstar", which was released just days before Bowie's death at the age of 69 from cancer in January 2016.

We know who Hart played, but Reynolds starred as a dreamboat bad boy named Seth who was all hunky-dory until he tried to hook up with Sabrina in the back of his car after a spring dance.

Best of Bowie, released in 2002, currently sits at No. 2, while 1972's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders occupies the No. 5 spot and 1971's Hunky Dory is at No. 7.

Although things were looking "pretty hunky dory" for most countries coming into the year, there have since been significant changes to the global outlook and monetary policy divergence, said Philip Wee, a foreign exchange strategist at DBS Bank.

All he has told them — during his inauguration, and again today — is that "many sides" must put aside their own prejudices just as much as anyone else, and come together as Americans, and everything will be hunky-dory.

If he had an anthem, it was "Changes," from his 1971 album "Hunky Dory," which proclaimed: Turn and face the strange, Ch-ch-changes, Oh look out now you rock and rollers, Pretty soon now you're gonna get older.

Your best when facing a challenging time in life will be different from your best when everything is hunky-dory, just as your best on your birthday, or on a vacation, or at a holiday meal will require indulgence.

" — A commenter who used the name Gwenorel, Millburn, N.J. "My love for David Bowie goes back to 'Hunky Dory,' but it was during high school in Ohio, where I'd been dragged after a happy expatriate childhood, that he became my hero.

TV on the Radio's Kyp Malone delivered a soft, refreshingly unrefined performance of "Bewlay Brothers" that perfectly illustrated the poetry of the Hunky Dory classic, coming off less like a Radio City performance and more like an intimate campfire gathering.

It'll be mounted at the site of Trident Studios in Soho, central London, where he recorded both Hunky Dory and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, and unveiled tomorrow (15 June), as part of the BBC's Music Day celebrations.

Republican defenders of voting restrictions insist that it is not only blacks who are being barred from the polls but a wide range of Democrats, from college students to former prisoners to the elderly, as if that makes everything hunky-dory.

Pete and Elliott, a computer-animated dragon with green fur, pleasingly leonine facial features, and an emotive noise vocabulary that borrows from both Scooby-Doo and Chewbacca, enjoy a hunky-dory forest life until the pair are discovered by nearby townspeople.

"When I got the first phone call from a reporter in 2018, I made everything sound like it was hunky-dory and I thought it was going to go away, but then I heard the extent of it," Burlenski said.

Dijsselbloem, who also chairs the Eurogroup of euro zone finance ministers, was quoted as saying that British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was wrong to tell Britons that "everything is going to be hunky dory and that it will be a win-win situation".

William Martinez claims he worked for Kleinfeld from 2011 - 2014 and everything was hunky dory until his last year on the job, when he was hospitalized with kidney problems and it left him unable to do the various physical tasks he was assigned.

Hensarling was a key ally of the finance industry in fighting Dodd-Frank, but he also obviously wasn't going to sit around amid 10 percent unemployment and trillions in destroyed wealth and say everything had been hunky-dory under George W. Bush's watch.

At the airy all-day cafe Hunky Dory, in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, owner Claire Sprouse created the Pink Kong, a $21 nonalcoholic cocktail of rice milk, pink peppercorn tea and the cardamom-forward Seedlip Spice 230, for abstaining adults.

Democrats who defended a President who admitted to receiving oral sex from an intern in the Oval Office while discussing bombing runs against Serbia, and who think it's just hunky-dory to put boys in the Girls' locker room in public schools But Republicans?

Among the New York City bars that quickly began to offer takeout cocktails were PDT, Attaboy, Middle Branch, Sugar Monk and Angel's Share in Manhattan; Hunky Dory, Leyenda, Seaborne, Donna, Fresh Kills and Fort Defiance in Brooklyn; and Dutch Kills and Selma's Bar in Queens.

While the White House publicly insists that Trump's relationship with national security adviser H.R. McMaster is hunky dory, reporting coming out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue suggests that Trump fumes about the gruff and what he perceives to be arrogant way McMaster deals with him.

Available now for pre-order from the Royal Mail website, the limited 10-stamp collection will include images such as Bowie's most iconic album covers ( Hunky Dory, Let's Dance, Aladdin Sane, Heroes, Blackstar and Earthling), and live performance shots from throughout the musician's decades-spanning career.

The "Teen Mom" star says she doesn't care anymore if you believe her ... even if her sobbing 911 call alleging David pinned her to the ground so violently she felt her collarbone crack paints a drastically different picture than her hunky-dory dinner with the fam.

There's a consensus among players that the deal they got in the last C.B.A. — which looked decent enough at the time — has not aged well, and management seems to agree: The owners keep talking about an "extension" of the current deal, as if everything's hunky-dory.

Por entonces ya había publicado Hunky Dory, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars y Aladdin Sane, y se le consideraba el pionero del glam rock en Gran Bretaña, sobre todo por su uso de la androginia, que le causó problemas al mezclar sus personajes en el escenario con los de su vida privada.

Released in 1969, it would rocket to the top of the U.K. singles charts and set the tone for many of Bowie's extraterrestrial/existential mashups to come: The end of the '60s and early 1970s were a heady time for Bowie, as he pumped out instant classics Space Oddity, The Man Who Sold the World (20103) and Hunky Dory (1971).

The former Trident Studios building in 2018, where the album was recorded. The first song to be properly recorded for Ziggy Stardust was the Ron Davies cover "It Ain't Easy", on 9 July 1971. Originally slated for release on Hunky Dory, the song was passed for inclusion on that album and subsequently placed on Ziggy Stardust. With Hunky Dory being readied for release, the sessions for Ziggy Stardust officially began at Trident on 8 November 1971, using much of the same personnel as Hunky Dory.

You're all right, and the spot is hunky-dory, and it's the durned old boat hez made the mistake, begosh!

All the songs on each of the albums included are written by David Bowie, except where noted.David Bowie. Hunky Dory (RCA Records, 1971).

He has also been credited in John Russell Bartlett's 1877 Dictionary of Americanisms with having invented the word hunky-dory, meaning "everything is all right".

Daryl Easlea of BBC Music writes that the album saw Bowie finding his own voice after "scrabbling around stylistically" for almost a decade and "finally demonstrated [his] enormous potential to the listening public." Schrieber states: "Hunky Dory marked the true start of what would be one of the most successful careers in rock music, spawning millions of scarily obsessive fans." Similarly, Michael Gallucci of Ultimate Classic Rock contended that Hunky Dory is "where Bowie starts to become Bowie", featuring lyrical and stylistic themes he would replicate on future releases. He concludes that all Bowie's future guises begin to find their voices with Hunky Dory.

Ray Stevens's version was on his album Gitarzan. The lyric "look at that caveman go" is referenced in David Bowie's "Life on Mars?" from the album Hunky Dory.

Bowie, Angela. Backstage Passes, pp. 29–30 His birth prompted his father to write the songs "Kooks" and "Oh! You Pretty Things" for his 1971 album Hunky Dory.

Upon release, Hunky Dory and its lead single "Changes" received little promotion from RCA who were wary that Bowie would transform his image shortly. Thus, despite very positive reviews from the British and American music press, the album initially sold poorly and failed to chart. It was only after the commercial breakthrough of Bowie's 1972 follow-up album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars that Hunky Dory itself became a commercial success, peaking at number three on the UK Albums Chart. Retrospectively, Hunky Dory has been critically acclaimed as one of Bowie's best works, and features on several lists of the greatest albums of all time.

In total, he composed over three-dozen songs there, many of which would appear on Hunky Dory and its follow-up album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. The first song Bowie wrote for Hunky Dory was "Oh! You Pretty Things" in January 1971. After recording its demo at Radio Luxembourg, Bowie gave the tape to Grace, who showed it to Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits.

Grace told Bowie, who loved it. Pegg notes that there was a song from 1957 by American doo-wop band the Guytones also titled "Hunky Dory" that may also have played a part. Spitz notes that "hunky-dory" is an English slang term that means everything is right in the world. The original UK cover featured Bowie's name and the album title; in the US the title was instead printed on a sticker and placed onto the translucent wrapping.

Hunky Dory also peaked at number 39 on the Kent Music Report in Australia. Gallucci writes that although the album did not make Bowie a star, it "got him noticed", and the success of Ziggy Stardust helped Hunky Dory garner a larger audience. RCA released "Life on Mars?" as a single on 22 June 1973, which also made number three in Britain. A reissue returned the album to the UK chart in January 1981, where it remained for 51 weeks.

"100 Greatest Albums", VH1, 2004 A year later, in a listing of the "coolest" albums by GQ, ranked it 45th. The French retailer Fnac's 2008 list named Hunky Dory the 86th greatest album of all time.

Bowie premiered "Song for Bob Dylan" on 3 June 1971 during a BBC concert session, with George Underwood (King Bees bandmate and school friend) singing lead vocals. During broadcast, Bowie introduced the song as "Song for Bob Dylan – Here She Comes." The song was first recorded at Trident Studios for Hunky Dory on 8 June 1971, with Bowie singing lead vocals and the title changed to "Song for Bob Dylan." During the Hunky Dory sessions the song went through numerous rejected retakes, with the final version recorded on 6 August.

Hunky Dory was met with very positive reviews from several British and American publications. Melody Maker called it "the most inventive piece of song-writing to have appeared on record in a considerable time", while Danny Holloway of NME described it as Bowie "at his brilliant best". Holloway added that "[Hunky Dory is] a breath of fresh air compared to the usual mainstream rock LP of [1972]. It's very possible that this will be the most important album from an emerging artist in 1972, because he's not following trends – he's setting them".

Many biographers and reviewers have agreed that Hunky Dory marked the beginning of Bowie's artistic success. Pegg writes: "Hunky Dory stands at the first great crossroads in Bowie's career. It was his last album until Low to be presented purely as a sonic artefact rather than a vehicle for the dramatic visual element with which he was soon to make his name as a performer". Buckley notes that 1971 was a pivotal year for Bowie, the year in which he became "something of a pop-art agent provocateur".

Ken Scott, who previously worked as an engineer for Bowie's two previous albums and the Beatles, was chosen as producer. The sessions also featured keyboardist Rick Wakeman on piano who, after completing work on the album, declined Bowie's offer to join the Spiders to instead join the English progressive rock band Yes. According to Woodmansey, Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust were almost recorded back-to-back. However, the Spiders realised that most of the songs on Hunky Dory were not suitable live material, so they needed a follow-up that could be toured behind.

A few months after he had terminated Bowie's contract with Mercury, Defries showcased the newly recorded Hunky Dory to multiple labels in the US, including New York City's RCA Records. Its head Dennis Katz had never heard of Bowie but recognised the potential of the piano-based songs that Defries played for him and signed the artist to a three-record deal on 9 September 1971; RCA would be Bowie's label for the rest of the decade. Hunky Dory was released on 17 December 1971 by RCA. By this time, the sessions for Ziggy Stardust were underway.

As for desserts, the most important is the miguelitos La Roda, flowers and chips, made from flour, eggs, sunflower oil, sugar, dry anise and rosemary honey, which derives dessert Albacete phrase that when all goes well "as is hunky-dory," must buns, sighs...

It was in his live sets by early 1970Pegg (2002): p. 67–68 and it led off the second side of his 1971 album, Hunky Dory. Bowie also covered "Buzz the Fuzz" in his live set in 1970-71.Pegg (2002): p.

"Oh! You Pretty Things" is a song written by David Bowie, which appears on his 1971 album Hunky Dory. It opens with only piano and Bowie's vocal, before entering the refrain. The simple piano style has been compared with the Beatles' "Martha My Dear".

"Quicksand" is a song written by English singer-songwriter David Bowie and released on his 1971 album Hunky Dory. It was recorded on 14 July 1971 at Trident Studios in London.Kevin Cann (2010). Any Day Now - David Bowie: The London Years: 1947-1974: pp.

You can be walking down the road, you've just left your family at > home and everything's hunky dory, then when you go back home they're gone. > On one side of the door your life's amazing, on the other side it changes > just like that.

Author David Buckley describes the drum pattern as "heartbeat-like". The opening line, "Pushing through the market square", likely refers to the Aylesbury market square in Buckinghamshire, England. Bowie debuted both Hunky Dory and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars albums at Friars Club in the town, and is reputed to have formed the Spiders there, following the Hunky Dory gig. Biographers Nicholas Pegg and Peter Doggett both note the track's building intensity, especially in Bowie's vocal performance – moving from calm to screaming, as reminiscent of English musician John Lennon's 1970 solo album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, particularly on its opening track "Mother".

Retrospectively, Hunky Dory has received critical acclaim and is regarded as one of Bowie's best works. Many reviewers have praised the songwriting, with a writer for Blender calling the songs some of the best Bowie has ever written. Others, including Bryan Wawzenek of Ultimate Classic Rock, have commended the wide array of genres present in the songs and their ability to blend together throughout. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote: "On the surface, [having] such a wide range of styles and sounds would make an album incoherent, but Bowie's improved songwriting and determined sense of style instead made Hunky Dory a touchstone for reinterpreting pop's traditions into fresh, postmodern pop music".

I still kind of use it as a sort of reference-point." Although he recognised other albums by Bowie as influential, Stewart noted that Hunky Dory had the biggest influence on him, recalling a time when he and his Eurythmics partner Annie Lennox, along with a full orchestra, played "Life on Mars?" instead of one of their songs during a world broadcast. In 2002, Boy George of Culture Club cited Hunky Dory as the record that changed his life, saying: "The album as a whole is so unusual, so far removed from anything you heard on the radio. It's so complete, it all fits together.

"We Are Hungry Men" is told by a self-styled "messiah" whose persona would reappear in different forms in the songs "Cygnet Committee" (from the album Space Oddity), "Saviour Machine" (from The Man Who Sold the World) and "Oh! You Pretty Things" (from Hunky Dory), as well as in the protagonist of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. The track also explicitly referenced subjects like abortion, infanticide and cannibalism. "There Is a Happy Land" was an early manifestation of Bowie's vision of children as a race apart from their elders, a theme revisited on The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust.

49 It was later released as a bonus track on the Rykodisc CD and cassette reissue of Hunky Dory in 1990, and again on the Ziggy Stardust – 30th Anniversary Reissue bonus disc in 2002. This version was sampled on "Culture Shock", from Death Grips's 2011 mixtape Exmilitary.

A few days after his son Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones was born on 30 May 1971, Bowie completed "Kooks" and dedicated it to him. Performed by Bowie as early as 3 June, the Hunky Dory version features a string arrangement from Ronson and trumpet played by Bolder. "Kooks" is noticeably lighter than the two tracks it is sequenced between but, according to Pegg, ultimately "carries a hint of [the album's] preoccupation with the compulsion to fictionalise life, as Bowie invites his son to 'stay in our lovers' story'". Doggett writes that its inclusion on Hunky Dory "ensured its enduring appeal among those who were less entranced by his explorations of politics, psychology and occult elsewhere on the album".

"Bombers" is a song written by English singer-songwriter David Bowie. It was recorded in July 1971Kevin Cann (2010). Any Day Now - David Bowie: The London Years: 1947-1974: p.223 and intended for the album Hunky Dory, but was replaced at the last minute by the cover "Fill Your Heart".

The song was written by Eddie Cochran and his brother Bob Cochran. David Bowie used the guitar chord riff in his 1971 song "Queen Bitch" on his album Hunky Dory. He later made reference to the song title in the lyrics of "It's No Game" on 1979's Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps).

After the hard rock sound of The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory features a stylistic shift from Bowie towards art pop and melodic pop rock.; . The songs are mostly piano-led rather than guitar-led. Biographer Marc Spitz believes the piano incites a warmer feel on this record compared to its two predecessors.

Bowie, an admirer of Warhol, sent the artist an advanced copy of Hunky Dory and performed "Andy Warhol" for him in person at Warhol's The Factory in New York in September 1971, before the album had been released. But due to Warhol's typically minimal reaction, Bowie was never sure if he liked it or not.

Aneurin Barnard (; born 8 May 1987) is a Welsh actor. He is known for playing Davey in Hunky Dory, Claude in The Truth About Emanuel, Bobby Willis in Cilla, Tim in Thirteen, King Richard III in The White Queen, William in Dead In A Week (or your money back), Gibson in Dunkirk, and Boris Pavlikovsky in The Goldfinch.

"Life on Mars?" is included on the soundtrack to the 2006 film Factory Girl. "Life on Mars?" is used in the 2012 British film Hunky Dory, sung by the character Davey (Aneurin Barnard). In 2018 the song was played by the radio of Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster during its launch aboard the Falcon Heavy's maiden flight.

Bowie recorded a song called "Andy Warhol" for his 1971 album Hunky Dory. Lou Reed wrote the song "Andy's Chest", about Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Warhol, in 1968. He recorded it with the Velvet Underground, and this version was released on the VU album in 1985. Bowie would later play Warhol in the 1996 movie, Basquiat.

Following his promotional tour of America in February 1971, Bowie returned to Haddon Hall in England and began writing songs, many of which were inspired by the diverse musical genres that were present in America. Composing on piano rather than acoustic guitar like he had previously done, he wrote over three-dozen songs, many of which would appear on his fourth studio album Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust; among these were "Moonage Daydream" and "Hang On to Yourself", which he recorded with his short-lived band Arnold Corns in February 1971, and subsequently rerecorded for Ziggy Stardust. Work officially begun on Hunky Dory on 8 June 1971 at Trident Studios in London. The sessions featured the musicians who would later become known as the Spiders from Mars – comprising Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder and Mick Woodmansey.

Everything is peaceful and hunky dory, but only until Stephen/Feroz (Kelly Dorji) enters the scene. He is a feared don throughout India who wants to add Andhra to his underworld fieldom. He has two sexy concubines for himself. Before Andhra's conquer plan, he challenges Goa don on a fight while her wife is tearfully seeing his husband being killed brutally.

His back catalogue was now highly sought after: The Man Who Sold the World had been re-released in 1972 along with Space Oddity. "Life on Mars?", from Hunky Dory, was released in June 1973 and peaked at No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart. Entering the same chart in September, Bowie's novelty record from 1967, "The Laughing Gnome", reached No. 6.

2010: Third Star was filmed at Barafundle Bay in Pembroke, directed by Hattie Dalton. 2011: Hunky Dory was filmed in Swansea, directed by Marc Evans. 2011: Killer Elite was filmed in the Brecon Beacons and Windsor Place, Cardiff starring Robert De Niro, and Jason Stratham, directed by Gary McKendry. 2011: Captain America the first avenger was filmed at Caerwent, directed by Joe Johnson.

The band took the name Saccharine Trust from a line in the David Bowie song "The Bewlay Brothers" on Hunky Dory. Brewers lyrics often featured Biblical imagery and a fascination with Gene Scott. Brewer's performances have been noted for his "stuttering, enunciated vocals". Brewer wrote the lyrics for Minutemen's "God Bows to Math" from their Double Nickels on the Dime album.

"Kooks" is a song written by English singer-songwriter David Bowie, which appears on his 1971 album Hunky Dory. Bowie wrote this song to his newborn son Duncan Jones. The song was a pastiche of early 1970s Neil Young because Bowie was listening to a Neil Young record at home on 30 May 1971 when he got the news of the arrival of his son.Kevin Cann (2010).

Roy Carr & Charles Shaar Murray (1981). Bowie: An Illustrated Record: p.116 The track was eventually given wide release as a bonus track on the Rykodisc reissue of Hunky Dory in 1990. The song was officially released for the second time in 2017 on a newly mixed re-issue of the promotional RCA/Gem LP (commonly entitled "Bowpromo") as an exclusive release for Record Store Day.

Interview with Aneurin Barnard and other member cast of SPRING AWAKENING todoMUSICALES.com Barnard appeared in Ironclad, a film set in 1215 and featuring the signing of the Magna Carta by King John and the rebellion by his barons. The film also stars Paul Giamatti, Derek Jacobi, Kate Mara, James Purefoy, Jason Flemyng and Mackenzie Crook. In 2011 Barnard starred in Hunky Dory alongside Minnie Driver.

The song was regularly performed live by David Bowie. A version he recorded in 1973 was released as a single in 1983 to promote the album Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture. Bowie, a long-time Velvets fan, had been performing "White Light/White Heat" since 1971. (His album of that year, Hunky Dory, features a credit to the song for having inspired Bowie's "Queen Bitch").

According to him, if she were to marry, then a suitor could potentially swindle the family out of their estate. In order to protect it, she chose to be single. This sacrifice came with a sense of loneliness and estrangement. As for Seher, who believed in breaking the walls that Meher and her father put up in the family, things have not been hunky dory.

"Life on Mars?" is a song by English singer-songwriter David Bowie. It was first released on his 1971 album Hunky Dory and later released in 1973 as a single. The song has cryptic lyrics by Bowie and prominent piano by Rick Wakeman. As a single, "Life on Mars?" reached number three in the UK Singles Chart and stayed on the chart for thirteen weeks.

Demone and Williams came together to release the album Dream Home Heartache in 1995. It was recorded by Williams and Demone in Gent, Belgium between March 28 and April 5, 1995 with help from Pieter Rekfelt. The producer was Ken Thomas who had previously worked with David Bowie on Hunky Dory. Williams and Gitane played a few shows together in April 1995 and again in December 1995.

There is outdoor seating also available for diners. It features prints by Richard Hamilton, Henry Moore, Gordon House and William Crozier as well as a pencil drawing by Matisse. Handcrafted tables were made by Toby Davis of Hunky Dory Designs and are a mix of Macassar Ebony, with placemats cut into the table-tops. In January 2009, the restaurant was awarded its first Michelin Star for creative dishes at L'Autre Pied.

Garson later said that Scott as producer "got the best piano sound out of any of his performances for Bowie." Garson remembered being given a lot of attention from Bowie in the studio, who mainly wanted to see what Garson could do. The piano Garson played on the album was the same one used by Rick Wakeman for Hunky Dory. He remained with Bowie's entourage for the next three years.

Everyone does their part to make her believe that everything is hunky-dory, however, Darshan consistently questions who Bimla is to which there is no answer. Later she coaxes Billo to marry Sunil and to everyone's surprise, Billo agrees. A fake marriage ceremony is arranged and they are remarried. On the night of the wedding, Sunil and Billo have a heartful conversation and both of them drop the idea of divorce.

She earned a degree in cinematography from the National Film and Television School in 2004. After film school she returned to Denmark where she wrote, directed and shot the 2004 short film Between Us. She worked with director Thomas Vinterberg on his 2010 drama film Submarino. She was cinematographer for the Marc Evans' 2011 film Hunky Dory. She continued to work with Vinterberg in the 2012 film The Hunt.

Virgin wanted the release to tie in with the film's opening. The song featured Rick Wakeman on piano, who had previously performed on Bowie's "Space Oddity" single and Hunky Dory album. Shortly after the sessions wrapped, Mick Jagger flew in to record the charity cover of "Dancing in the Street" with Bowie, which used many of the same musicians. Bowie recorded the lead vocal of "Absolute Beginners" at Westside Studios in August.

Bowie would later cover "I Took a Trip on a Gemini Space Ship" on 2002's Heathen. Hunky Dory (1971) found Visconti, Bowie's producer and bassist, supplanted in both roles by Ken Scott and Trevor Bolder respectively. The album saw the partial return of the fey pop singer of "Space Oddity", with light fare such as "Kooks", a song written for his son, Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones, born on 30 May.Buckley (2005): pp.

Hunky Dory is a British independent musical film about the trials of an idealistic drama teacher as she tries to put on the end-of-year show. It was written by Laurence Coriat and directed by Welsh director Marc Evans and stars Minnie Driver, Aneurin Barnard, Kimberley Nixon and Robert Pugh. It premièred at the 55th BFI London Film Festival on 25 October 2011, and was officially released on 2 March 2012 in the UK.

The first outtake from the album, "Velvet Goldmine", was slated for inclusion on the album's second side as late as 15 December 1971. However, in a radio interview in 1972, Bowie described it as "a little provocative", which most likely contributed to its removal. O'Leary argues that its "quirkiness" might have been better suited for Hunky Dory. The song is described by Doggett as "a tribute to the creative possibilities aroused by the Velvet Underground".

The Cat Action Trust 1977 website The range of merchandise featuring the Ivory Cats is extensive and includes hundreds of items from the US, UK and Europe in addition to being an expending market in Japan. It has appeared on merchandise from Danbury Mint, Hunky Dory, Enesco, Past Times, and many others. Today her work can be seen on Flame Tree calendars, Halcyon Days boxes, and Wentworth Wooden Jigsaws. Her work is exhibited at the Chris Beetles Gallery.

"The Bewlay Brothers" is a song written by English singer-songwriter David Bowie in 1971 for the album Hunky Dory. One of the last tracks to be written and recorded for the LP, the ballad has been described as "probably Bowie's densest and most impenetrable song". Bowie named his publishing company in the late 1970s Bewlay Bros. Music and used the name as a pseudonym for himself, Iggy Pop and Colin Thurston as producers of Pop's 1977 album Lust for Life.

One by one band members quit until finally it was just Brewer and Baiza. After spending almost a year attempting to put together a new lineup which included a failed audition by Mike Watt, Saccharine Trust played their first gig in 1980 with Minutemen. The lineup consisted of Baiza on guitar, Brewer on vocals, Luis Maldonado on bass, and Richie Wilder on drums. The band's name came from a line in the David Bowie song "The Bewlay Brothers" on Hunky Dory.

In a time when rock musicians looked to traditions and established standards, Bowie looked to be radically different and challenge tradition, reinventing himself again and again, thereby creating new standards and conventions. Buckley further said: "Its almost easy- listening status and conventional musical sensibility has detracted from the fact that, lyrically, this record lays down the blueprint for Bowie's future career". Spitz writes that many artists have their "it all came together on this one" record. "For David Bowie, it's Hunky Dory".

In the 2008 film Defiance, MacKay played Aron, the youngest of the four Bielski brothers. In 2009 he portrayed Harry in The Boys Are Back starring Clive Owen. MacKay co- starred in the Marc Evans-directed musical film Hunky Dory opposite Minnie Driver, Aneurin Barnard and Kimberley Nixon, which is set in 1970s Swansea. In 2012, he played the main character, Private Tommo Peaceful, in Private Peaceful, and appeared as a paralyzed soldier in the inspirational film The Best of Men.

Pegg summarises the lyrics as Bowie "holding a mirror to his face" just as he's about to achieve stardom. The song has also been interpreted as touting "Modern Kids as a New Race", a theme echoed on the following album track, "Oh! You Pretty Things". Rolling Stone's contemporary review of Hunky Dory considered that "Changes" could be "construed as a young man's attempt to reckon how he'll react when it's his time to be on the maligned side of the generation schism".

A Jersey City auto mechanic travels to California in search of his dream girl, the "California Girl", a girl he saw in cosmetics commercials. He meets the woman of his dreams and a Hollywood photographer, who show him the good life of Los Angeles. The "dream girl" convinces him to follow his dreams and open his own garage with an inheritance from his father. However, the manager may have other plans, and he sees that having his own business is not as hunky dory as he believed.

"Changes" is a song by English singer-songwriter David Bowie, originally released on the album Hunky Dory in December 1971 and as a single on 7 January 1972. Despite missing the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, "Changes" became one of Bowie's best-known songs. The lyrics are often seen as a manifesto for his chameleonic personality, the frequent change of the world today, and frequent reinventions of his musical style throughout the 1970s. This single has been cited as David Bowie's official US debut.

Williams performing in 1974 Williams began his professional songwriting career with Biff Rose in Los Angeles. The two men first met while working together on a television comedy show. Together, they wrote the song "Fill Your Heart" which was recorded by Rose on his first album, The Thorn in Mrs. Roses Side. Soon thereafter Tiny Tim covered it as the B-side of his hit "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" (1968). David Bowie also recorded a faithful version of the song on his album Hunky Dory (1971).

Bowie had originally wanted session musician and Strawbs keyboardist Rick Wakeman to join the band (Wakeman had played piano on Bowie's second album and on Hunky Dory); Wakeman refused and instead joined progressive rock band Yes. Wakeman would feature uncredited on the album, and would collaborate with Bowie again on Absolute Beginners. They were present again on Bowie's 1973 album, Aladdin Sane. Another leg of the tour followed that year, with the final show captured in the film, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

Bowie in character as Ziggy Stardust during the Ziggy Stardust Tour. Hunky Dory was released on 17 December 1971 and received praise from British and American publications. Before Bowie changed his appearance to his Ziggy persona, he conducted an interview with journalist Michael Watts of Melody Maker where he came out as gay. Published on 22 January with the headline "Oh You Pretty Thing", the announcement garnered publicity in both Britain and America, although according to Pegg the declaration wasn't as monumental as latter-day accounts perceive.

Trevor "never looked comfortable as a glam-rock mannequin, tottering behind Ziggy Stardust in platform boots and a rainbow-hued outfit of latex and glitter"."Trevor Bolder", The Times (Obituaries), 23 May 2013, p. 67. Bolder's bass (and occasional trumpet) work appeared on the studio albums Hunky Dory (1971), The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), Aladdin Sane (1973), and Pin Ups (1973), the Spiders' swan song with their leader. He went on to play on Ronson's 1974 album Slaughter on 10th Avenue which made the British Top Ten.

"Fill Your Heart", written by Biff Rose and Paul Williams, is the only track on Hunky Dory not written by Bowie; it is his first recorded cover song in six years. It replaced "Bombers" as the side two opener late in the album's development. "Fill Your Heart" is one of the more up-tempo tracks on the album, and according to Doggett is "practically identical" to Rose's original version, albeit more "bouncy" and less "swung". The piano-driven arrangement differs from Bowie's live performances of the song in 1970, when acoustic guitar dominated.

The Ziggy Stardust Tour was a concert tour by David Bowie during 1972–73, to promote the studio albums Hunky Dory, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars and Aladdin Sane. Bowie was accompanied by his backing group, the Spiders from Mars and integrated choreography, costumes and make-up into the live shows to make them a wider entertainment package. The tour generated significant press coverage, drawing positive reviews and launching Bowie to stardom. The tour covered the UK, the US and Japan.

We see that the father too has 'grown up,' sporting a handle bar moustache with salt and pepper hair. He is now the owner of a successful catering firm, managed by his former employer. Everything is hunky dory and things stay in a comedic vein; the inkling of conflict comes in the form of a vow taken by Alby that he will not marry a girl who laughs at his father. As luck would have it, Alby falls in love with Ancy (Kanika), whom he spots in a shopping mall, and they get married.

Defries had a zero- tolerance drug policy and no unauthorised press access policy. As a strategy to control the narrative and create demand, all access public and press was denied. This was based on protocols used by the movie studios in the 1950s to make their stars famous. MainMan had their own in-house photographers, Mick Rock and Leee Black Childers, and forbade all other unauthorised photographers. A key part of Defries’ strategy with MainMan was to control the creative process of Bowie's next album, Hunky Dory, by funding it independently, before approaching RCA.

Alexander Veljanov knew Christian Komorowski from the band Love Sister Hope, Michael Popp and Ernst Horn met each other at the Residence Theater in Munich. Together they founded the band Qntal also in 1991. Due to its tremendous success the Dark Star-Tour was continued in 1992, and with Dark Star-Tour '92 the first Live-album was released. Deine Lakaien gave a concert in the Vier-Linden in Hildesheim already on 11 October 1991 that was recorded for the radio show Grenzwellen another followed on 19 February 1992 in the Hunky Dory in Detmold.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic praised Ronson's guitar work, writing, "[Ronson] plays with a maverick flair that invigorates rockers like 'Suffragette City', 'Moonage Daydream' and 'Hang On to Yourself'". Ned Raggett, also of AllMusic, noted the influence of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, which was previously seen on the Hunky Dory track "Queen Bitch", but found an overall better result in "Suffragette City". Raggett similarly praised Ronson's guitar work, acknowledging it as both a glam trademark and rock trademark. He further complimented the keyboards and piano, saying they add to song's power and drive.

"Rebel Rebel" was released on 15 February 1974 in the UK by RCA Records (as LPB05009) as the lead single of Diamond Dogs with the Hunky Dory song "Queen Bitch" as the B-side. The B-side, according to Spitz, was selected by RCA to provide the label with some "much needed fiscal plasma". The single quickly became a glam anthem, the female equivalent of Bowie's earlier hit for Mott the Hoople, "All the Young Dudes". It reached number five on the UK Singles Chart and number 64 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

Scottish folk-rock singer Al Stewart's debut album is titled Bedsitter Images. In "I Fought in a War" by Scottish indie band Belle and Sebastian, mention is made of the "bedsit infamy of the decade gone before". The subject is also referenced for a similar purpose in "Legend in My Living Room" by Annie Lennox ["...Bright lights and trains and bedsit stains"] as well as the Soft Cell song "Bedsitter", about club life. David Bowie in "Song for Bob Dylan" from Hunky Dory (1971) sings: "You gave your heart to every bedsit room".

"Andy Warhol" is a song written by English singer-songwriter David Bowie in 1971 for the album Hunky Dory. It is an acoustic song about one of Bowie's early artist inspirations, the American pop artist Andy Warhol. The album track opens with a series of strange electronic tones which fades into studio chatter in which producer Ken Scott mispronounces Warhol's name and Bowie repeatedly demonstrates how to say it properly. Scott then solemnly reintroduces the take with the correct pronunciation, and Bowie asks if the tape is rolling.

Bowie wrote "Ziggy Stardust" and fellow album track "Lady Stardust" "within days" of each other in early 1971. According to biographer Nicholas Pegg, it was registered with Bowie's publisher Chrysalis as early as April 1971, before the recording sessions for Hunky Dory (1971). Bowie recorded an acoustic demo of the track between February and March 1971 at Radio Luxembourg's studios in London, around the same time he recorded "Moonage Daydream" and "Hang On to Yourself" with his band Arnold Corns. This demo was released as a bonus track on the Rykodisc CD release of Ziggy Stardust in 1990.

The set included debut performances of several songs Bowie had recently written such as "Queen Bitch", "Bombers", "Song for Bob Dylan" and "Andy Warhol". The title "Hunky Dory" was also announced at this session. Co-producer Ken Scott in 2014 Bowie and the future Spiders officially started work on the new album at Trident Studios in London on 8 June 1971. Ken Scott, who had engineered Bowie's two previous records, was hired to co-produce alongside him. His debut as a producer, Scott would borrow some of the acoustic sounds of George Harrison's All Things Must Pass (1970), an album he engineered.

Further mixing sessions were carried out between 21 and 26 July to compile a promotional album for Gem Productions. By this point, the songs "Oh! You Pretty Things", "Eight Line Poem", "Kooks", "Queen Bitch" and "Andy Warhol" had been recorded; the mixes of "Eight Line Poem" and "Kooks" on the promotional album differed from the final versions on Hunky Dory. Two takes of "The Bewlay Brothers" were recorded on 30 July, the second appearing on the final album; it was recorded on a tape that contained scrapped versions of "Song for Bob Dylan" and "Fill Your Heart".

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic describes it as "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". Michael Gallucci of Ultimate Classic Rock notes that it is Bowie's first record to include "a mix of pop, glam, art and folk wrapped in an ambisexual pose that would come to define the artist." Peter Ormerod of The Guardian writes that the music of Hunky Dory celebrates "uncertainty, rootlessness, inner chaos, difference, otherness, doubt and impermanence" and did it with "beauty, style and charisma".

Construction of the resort began in the then-uninhabited valley in 1962. It opened six months later on December 15. There were originally three lifts, including one gondola that ran from Vail Village to Mid-Vail on the line where Gondola One operates. Several double chairlifts were later built: Golden Peak, which ran from Golden Peak base area up to the Riva Bahn Express midstation; Giant Steps, which ran from Vail Village to the bottom of the Avanti Express lift; the Avanti double chairlift; and two double chairlifts out of Mid-Vail, the Mountaintop and Hunky Dory lifts.

Since the closure of Dreamwave, Pat Lee has been criticized for his business practices. In an interview with Newsarama, Transformers writers Adam Patyk and James McDonough stated they had been laid off before the Dreamwave bankruptcy following a controversy about their payment, and had subsequently filed a lawsuit against Dreamwave for lack of payment.Alex Segura Jr.: "The Dreamwave Bankruptcy: From the Writers Point of View" , Newsarama com, July 26th, 2005. Retrieved January 9th, 2011. In another interview, Transformers writer Simon Furman claimed that Lee "looked [him] square in the eye and said everything’s hunky-dory" a mere month before the bankruptcy.

The restaurant as it is today came into being in 1950 when Al Bergstrom parted ways with another neighborhood restaurateur. Bergstrom had gained experience at the griddle and in kitchen management in the 1940s while working for John L. "Jack" Robinson during summers at a popular Minnesota State Fair cafeteria. The Dinkytown building he purchased dates back to 1937 when a neighboring hardware store erected a shed in the alleyway to hold sheet metal and plumbing parts. This was eventually rented out and was a Hunky Dory hamburger stand by the time Bergstrom took it over.

Following the commercial disappointment of Hunky Dory, Bowie finally found commercial success with Ziggy Stardust in 1972. The Man Who Sold the World has been retrospectively described by Bowie biographers and commentators as the beginning of Bowie's artistic growth, with many also agreeing that it was his first album where he began to find his sound. Author David Buckley has described that record as "the first Bowie album proper", while NME critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray similarly stated, "this is where the story really starts". Erlewine cites The Man Who Sold the World as the beginning of Bowie's "classic period".

"Changes" was written by Bowie in the summer of 1971 and recorded around the same time at Trident Studios in London. Co-produced by Ken Scott, he recorded it with pianist Rick Wakeman and the musicians who would later become known as the Spiders from Mars – Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder and Woody Woodmansey. Wakeman was asked to play during the Hunky Dory sessions and accepted. He recalled in 1995 that he met Bowie in late June 1971 at Haddon Hall in Bakewell, Derbyshire, where Bowie played him demos of "Changes" and "Life on Mars?" in "their raw brilliance".

"Changes" was released on 17 November 1971 in the UK and 4 December 1971 in the US as the opening track on Bowie's fourth studio album Hunky Dory. It was subsequently released as the first single of the album on 7 January 1972 by RCA Records (as RCA 2160) with fellow album track "Andy Warhol" as the B-side; it was Bowie's first single released by RCA. In France, the B-side was "Song for Bob Dylan", despite the label stating that it was "Andy Warhol". This single has been cited as David Bowie's official US chart debut.

Upon release, like the album, it flopped commercially, peaking at number 66 on the US Billboard charts and failing to chart in the UK. Despite this, it became English disc jockey Tony Blackburn's record of the week. It wasn't until the success of Bowie's following album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972) that recognition was brought upon Hunky Dory and "Changes", which according to Pegg quickly became a "turntable favorite" and "embedded" itself into the "pop- culture psyche". Commentators have later argued that "Oh! You Pretty Things" was the "obvious single" from the album over "Changes".

Five Years (1969–1973) is a box set by English singer-songwriter David Bowie, released in September 2015. The period of Bowie's career from 1969 to 1973 is summarised over twelve discs and thirteen LPs. Exclusive to the box sets is Re:Call 1, a new compilation of non-album singles, single versions and B-sides. It includes the albums David Bowie (more commonly known as Space Oddity), The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Aladdin Sane and the last Spiders album with Bowie Pin Ups.

Unlike its predecessor Hunky Dory, which was generally piano-led, the songs on Ziggy Stardust are primarily guitar-based, mostly due to the departure of keyboardist Rick Wakeman. The songs were influenced by the singer-songwriters Iggy Pop of the Stooges, Lou Reed of the Velvet Underground and Marc Bolan of T. Rex. Two songs, "Moonage Daydream" and "Hang On to Yourself", were originally recorded by Bowie in early 1971 with another band, Arnold Corns, before being rerecorded for Ziggy Stardust. The album's lyrics discuss the artificiality of rock music, political issues, drug use, sexual orientation and stardom.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (often shortened to Ziggy Stardust) is the fifth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released on 16 June 1972 in the United Kingdom by RCA Records. It was produced by Bowie and Ken Scott and features Bowie's backing band the Spiders from Mars – Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder and Mick Woodmansey. Most of the songs were written around the same time as its predecessor Hunky Dory. After that album was completed, recording for Ziggy Stardust commenced in November 1971 at Trident Studios in London, with further sessions in early February 1972.

The piano was the same one Paul McCartney used to record the Beatles' song "Hey Jude", as well as the same one Rick Wakeman used on David Bowie's 1971 album Hunky Dory. Baker recalled in 1999: May, Mercury, and Taylor reportedly sang their vocal parts continually for 10 to 12 hours a day. The entire piece took three weeks to record, and in some sections featured 180 separate overdubs. Since the studios of the time only offered 24-track analogue tape, it was necessary for the three to overdub themselves many times and "bounce" these down to successive sub-mixes.

"Queen Bitch" starts with Bowie counting down to his acoustic guitar before Mick Ronson's thrashy guitar riff enters. The song's arrangement, featuring a melodic bass line, a tight drum pattern, choppy distorted guitar chords, and an understated vocal performance by Bowie, provided the template for the glam rock style that features prominently on The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, his seminal 1972 follow-up to Hunky Dory. While the main riff is similar to The Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane", it is actually lifted from Eddie Cochran's "Three Steps to Heaven"Amazon.com (a posthumous number 1 hit single in the UK in 1960).

"Queen Bitch" is a song by English singer-songwriter David Bowie. It was originally released in 1971 on the album Hunky Dory but later appeared as the B-side of the single "Rebel Rebel" in the UK in 1974. Bowie was a great Velvet Underground fan and wrote the song in tribute to the band and Lou Reed. He recorded a studio cover of Reed's "I'm Waiting for the Man" in 1967 (which remains unissued), as well as live versions, which may be heard on Bowie at the Beeb and on Live Nassau Coliseum '76 (in the 2010 special edition and deluxe edition re-issues of Station to Station).

Hunky Dory is the fourth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released on 17 December 1971 by RCA Records. After the release of his 1970 album, The Man Who Sold the World, Bowie took time off from recording and touring duties due to various professional problems. He instead settled down to write new songs, prolifically composing them on piano rather than guitar as he had hitherto done. Following an invigorating tour of the United States, Bowie assembled a new backing band – guitarist Mick Ronson, bassist Trevor Bolder and drummer Mick Woodmansey – and began recording a new album in mid-1971 at Trident Studios in London.

During late 1972–73 David Bowie featured in a series of promotional films directed by pop photographer Mick Rock, who worked extensively with Bowie in this period. Rock directed and edited four clips to promote four consecutive David Bowie singles—"John, I'm Only Dancing" (May 1972), "The Jean Genie" (November 1972), the December 1972 US re-release of "Space Oddity" and the 1973 release of the single "Life on Mars?" (lifted from Bowie's earlier album Hunky Dory). The clip for "John, I'm Only Dancing" was made with a budget of just US$200 and filmed at the afternoon rehearsal for Bowie's Rainbow Theatre concert on August 19, 1972.

Despite his annoyance with Bowie during the sessions, Visconti still rated The Man Who Sold the World as his best work with Bowie until Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980). Despite the commercial flop of his new single "Holy Holy", recorded in autumn 1970 and released in January 1971, the single earned Bowie a contract with music publisher Chrysalis. The critical success of the album in the US prompted Mercury to send Bowie on a promotional radio tour of the country in February 1971. Upon his return, he wrote the majority of the material that would appear on the follow-ups Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust.

TFC's 2015 slate included All About E, All Eyes and Ears, The Amina Profile, The Armor of Light, The Bad Kids, The Hunting Ground, I Promise You Anarchy, Landfill Harmonic, Naz & Maalik, The New Man, Out to Win, Portrait of a Serial Monogamist, Racing Extinction, The Royal Road, Salero, Seed Money, Tab Hunter Confidential, Those People, Uncle Howard and While You Weren't Looking. TFC's 2016 slate included AWOL, Boone, Cameraperson, Equal Means Equal, Forever Pure, Hooligan Sparrow, Hunky Dory, Icaros, Jewel's Catch One, The Last Laugh, Maya Angelou And Still I Rise, Out Run, A Song For You, Tower, Untouchable and Women Who Kill.

He further praises the backing vocals, writing "[they wailed like harpies", and compliments Bowie's vocal performance, noting the presence of Ziggy himself in the chorus. Ned Raggett of AllMusic gave the song a positive review, complimenting Bowie's vocal performance, calling it "defiantly arch", his sax solo, and praises Ronson's guitar work, writing, "his concluding solo is as perfect an example of glam-god glory as anything." He identifies the "suddenly storming" choruses as the standout and notes the track as reminiscent of Bowie's previous album Hunky Dory. He ultimately called the song an "enjoyable listen", even if it's not quite connected to the overall theme of the album.

Evans, in an interview at Cineworld Cinema in Cardiff, declared that he is working on a musical set in Swansea of the year 1976, with Catherine Zeta- Jones attached, which then changed to become Minnie Driver. The film, Hunky Dory, premiered at the 55th BFI London Film Festival and was released on 2 March 2012, in the UK and Ireland. The film also stars Kimberley Nixon and Aneurin Barnard, the West End Actor of Spring Awakening . He appeared in A Life in the Death of Joe Meek, an independent documentary about the British record producer Joe Meek, which he was initially slated to direct.

Sculpture installations include in 1994, at the Australian National Gallery, in Canberra, installing high performance miniature speakers, that played out across the entry forecourt a continuous repeat of 5 David Bowie albums, Diamond Dogs, Pin Ups, Aladin Sain, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, creating the feeling of a daytime disco for those approaching. Another sculpture, at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1996, consisted of the gallery strewn with filled ash trays and all the detritus of a wild party, as if it had been held the night before. From 1981 - 1994 Frank created surreal large-scale drawings. Composed of intense tightly held lines they were up to 320 x 720 cm in size.

Commemorative plaque for Ziggy Stardust in Heddon Street, where the cover photo was taken. The album cover photograph was taken by photographer Brian Ward in monochrome, and recoloured by illustrator Terry Pastor, a partner at the Main Artery design studio in Covent Garden with George Underwood; both had previously done the artwork and sleeve for Hunky Dory. The typography, initially pressed onto the original image using Letraset, was airbrushed by Pastor red and yellow and inset with white stars. Pegg notes that unlikes many of Bowie's album sleeves, which feature close-ups of Bowie in a studio, the Ziggy image has Bowie almost in the foreground.

However, Bowie had a much better attitude when recording Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust, and gave guidance Ronson on what he was looking for. For the album, Ronson used an electric guitar plugged to a 100-watt Marshall amplifier and a wah-wah pedal; Bowie played acoustic rhythm guitar. Using a 16-track 3M M56 tape recorder, the band recorded initial versions of "Star" (then titled "Rock 'n' Roll Star") and "Hang On to Yourself", both of which were deemed unsuccessful. Both songs were rerecorded three days later on 11 November, along with "Ziggy Stardust", "Looking For a Friend", "Velvet Goldmine" and "Sweet Head".

David Bowie refers to the song in his tribute to Dylan, "Song for Bob Dylan", which begins with the line, "Now hear this, Robert Zimmerman, I wrote this song for you" mirroring Dylan's own "Hey, hey Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song." The song is on Bowie's 1971 album, "Hunky Dory". Frank Turner references the song in his song "Pass it Along", with the lyrics "Hey, hey Mr. Dylan, I have written you a song." This originally appeared on his Rock & Roll EP and was subsequently released on compilation The Second Three Years, which also features a cover of "Song to Woody" renamed "Song to Bob" with some lyrical adjustments.

Biographer Christopher Sandford states that "the songs [are] characterised by the lush ambiance established by Bowie's vocal and the piano" and, along with Elton John and Phil Collins, helped create music on the "easy-listening continuum". Lior Phillips of Consequence of Sound writes that the songs are accessible, both musically and lyrically, allowing the listener to dissect them again and again. Music journalist Peter Doggett concurs, regarding Hunky Dory as "a collective of attractively accessible pop songs, through which Bowie tested out his feelings about the nature of stardom and power". Robert Dimery, in his book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, calls it "a toybox of acoustic oddities, tributes to heroes and surrealism".

In 1992, Vail purchased a Doppelmayr triple chairlift from Beaver Creek the former Upper Horseshoe lift and installed it in Sun Up Bowl as the Sun Up (#17) lift. In 1993, Vail changed primary lift manufacturers, from Doppelmayr to Garaventa-CTEC, who installed three high speed quads. The first was the Pride Express (#26) lift in 1993, which serviced the upper part of the runs on the west Front Side, and combined with the Born Free Express lift, supplemented the Eagle Bahn Gondola as a way to get to Eagle's nest. In 1995, the Wildwood Express lift (#3) was built at Mid-Vail to replace Hunky Dory, a Lift Engineering fixed-grip quad.

" In 2015, Ultimate Classic Rock placed the song on their list of the top 200 songs of the 1970s, writing, "Even before his career took off, Bowie was giving a glimpse of his future, singing about change in a voice that sounded an awful lot like a certain rock 'n' roll troubadour from Mars. After a few stumbling years, Bowie found his voice on 1971's Hunky Dory. "Changes" is his coming-out party." The same publication, in their list of Bowie's ten best songs, listed it at number two, calling it "a beautiful tune" and praising Bowie's vocal performance as one of his finest, "showcasing one of the most unique voices in rock history.

In a review for the limited-edition box set David Bowie Box (2007), critic Thom Jurek described Reality as a "schizophrenic recording", on which the covers of George Harrison's "Try Some, Buy Some" and the Modern Lovers' "Pablo Picasso" "[distinguish] this set more than anything else". Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic praised the album, complimenting the way Bowie and Visconti were able to modernise their former 1970s sound. While he called its predecessor "an amalgam of Hunky Dory to "Heroes", he writes that Reality picks up where its predecessor left off, creating an amalgam of "Heroes" to Scary Monsters. He felt that the album was "artier" than Heathen, but "similar in feel" and "just as satisfying.

This is surely one of Ranbir's best performances." Raya Ghosh of Times Now rated 3.5/5 and commented "Ranbir's performance is effortless and the entire film rests on his shoulders with adequate support from Saswata Chatterjee for whom brilliant, even, would be an understatement." Sukanya Verma of Rediff.com rated 3.5/5 and said, "Jagga Jasoos revels in its lavish imagination, meddlesome inquiries and delicious bongness, never once pausing to catch a breath or make sense." Jhinuk Sen of Catch News rated 3.5/5 and said, "All is hunky dory – the on-screen chemistry, some great supporting characters, excellently choreographed action sequences – till the 'un-realism' gets a little hard to swallow, even with the sprinkles of rainbows and optimism.

Bowie performing "Rebel Rebel" on Top Pop in February 1974 The lead single, "Rebel Rebel", was released on 15 February 1974 in the UK by RCA Records, with the catalogue number LPB05009, and the Hunky Dory track "Queen Bitch" as the B-side. The same day, Bowie recorded a lip synced performance of "Rebel Rebel" at Hilversum's Avro Studio 2 for the Dutch television programme Top Pop. Transmitted two days later, it featured Bowie donning what Pegg calls his short-lived "pirate image" – an eyepatch and a spotted neckerchief. This costume was changed after the performance, in favour of the "swept-back parting and double-breasted suits" of the Diamond Dogs Tour.

Wakeman was omitted from the credits and for many years, was never paid for it; Stevens later apologised and paid Wakeman for the error. Wakeman played further sessions in 1971, including "Get It On" by T. Rex, three tracks on Madman Across the Water by Elton John, and "Changes", "Oh! You Pretty Things", and "Life on Mars?" for Bowie's album Hunky Dory. Bowie invited Wakeman to his home and played the outline of the tracks for him to learn; Wakeman later called them "the finest selection of songs I have ever heard in one sitting in my entire life".Wakeman 1995, p. 105. He also developed music for the 1972 film, Zee and Co.Wooding 1979, p. 77.

This led to him becoming a freelance artist. Underwood established himself as a leading art illustrator doing album covers for such artists as T. Rex (Futuristic Dragon, My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows), The Fixx (Phantoms, Reach the Beach, Beautiful Friction and Calm Animals), Procol Harum (Shine On Brightly), Mott the Hoople (All the Young Dudes) and David Bowie (Hunky Dory and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars). Over this period, he produced hundreds of book covers, LP and CD covers, advertisements, portraits and drawings. He appears in the 2012 documentary David Bowie & the Story of Ziggy Stardust (BBC Cymru Wales).

In a time when rock musicians looked to traditions and established standards, Bowie looked to be radically different and challenge tradition, reinventing himself again and again, thereby creating new standards and conventions. Doggett also notes that "Changes" is a "statement of purpose": it was the first track on Hunky Dory, the first time his audience had heard of him since The Man Who Sold the World (1970), and his previous hard rock and metallic sound was not present. The song was unlike "Space Oddity" and its 1969 parent album, but rather "pure, unashamedly melodic, gleefully commercial, gorgeously mellifluous pop." The song is ranked at number 128 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2004 list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Another nine of his albums re-entered in the Billboard 200, including The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Hunky Dory, Let's Dance, Aladdin Sane, Low, and The Next Day. On the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart, Bowie broke the record for most entries by a single artist with 21 songs. Blackstar was replaced at number one in the UK by his 2002 compilation Best of Bowie, making Bowie the first artist to replace themselves atop the album chart since Michael Jackson did so following his death in 2009. In the week following his death, Bowie had 19 albums and 13 singles in the top 100 charts for both categories, with his 1977 single ""Heroes"" reaching a new peak of number 12.

Nixon appeared in the musical film Hunky Dory, which is set in 1976 Swansea, with Minnie Driver, Aneurin Barnard and George MacKay, directed by Marc Evans. The film premièred at the 55th BFI London Film Festival on 25 October 2011, and was released officially on 2 March 2012 in the UK. Nixon starred alongside Jaime Winstone and Aneurin Barnard in Elfie Hopkins and the Gammons, a horror film about an aspiring teen detective who stumbles into her first real case when investigating the mysterious new family, the Gammons, in her neighbourhood. The film was released on 20 April 2012. In 2012, Nixon starred in the movie Offender, a thriller about a man who sets up his own imprisonment in order to avenge the assault of his girlfriend.

After Bowie's manager Tony Defries terminated his contract with Mercury Records, Defries presented the album to multiple labels in the US, including New York City's RCA Records. The head of the label, Dennis Katz, heard the tapes and saw the potential of the piano-based songs, signing Bowie to a three-album deal on 9 September; RCA became Bowie's label for the rest of the decade. Hunky Dory was released on 17 December to very positive reviews from critics but sold poorly and failed to break the UK Albums Chart, partly due to poor marketing from RCA; the label had heard that Bowie was going to be changing his image for his next record so they did not know how to promote the album.

Ziggy Stardust has been retrospectively described as glam rock, rock opera and proto-punk. Nenad Georgievski felt the record represents Bowie's interests in "theater, dance, pantomime, kabuki, cabaret and science fiction." The concept and music of Ziggy Stardust were influenced by Bowie's earlier album The Man Who Sold the World, Iggy Pop, singer/songwriter of the proto-punk band the Stooges, Lou Reed, singer/songwriter and guitarist of the Velvet Underground, Marc Bolan, singer/songwriter and guitarist of glam rock band T. Rex, guitarist and singer Jimi Hendrix; and progressive rock band King Crimson. Following the departure of Rick Wakeman on piano, the songs on Ziggy Stardust are considerably less piano-led than the songs on Hunky Dory and are more guitar-led.

"I'm Not in Love" has enjoyed lasting popularity, with over three million plays on US radio since its release, and it won three Ivor Novello Awards in 1976 for Best Pop Song, International Hit of the Year, and Most Performed British Work. It has appeared in the films The Virgin Suicides, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Indecent Proposal, Cherish, Whatever, Hunky Dory, Jappeloup, The Stud, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, He's Just Not That Into You, and Guardians of the Galaxy, as well as the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories and the television shows Goodnight Sweetheart, , The Office, Veronica Mars, Big Love, Medium, Cuentame, The Syndicate, Bull, EastEnders, Skam, and Pose. Axl Rose cited it as a song that meant a lot to him as a teenager: "So nonchalant, so cool ....".

An increase in women in decision making roles in > sport, positive attitudes and actions towards women's sport and giving > greater prominence and recognition to women's sporting achievements will all > make a difference. It is vital for future female participation in sport that > children get the opportunity to understand that women are major sports > achievers and are accomplished sports stars in their own right."RTÉ > online:Camogie President calls for more progress At the captain's launch of the All Ireland final Joan O'Flynn spoke out about the representation of females in sporting attire used in a crisps ad. She said "the Hunky Dory campaign, which features women wearing revealing crop tops in sport poses, was particularly ill-timed given that camogie's top teams will be starring in Croke Park this Sunday.

Bowie during the Ziggy Stardust Tour, 1972–1973 Dressed in a striking costume, his hair dyed reddish- brown, Bowie launched his Ziggy Stardust stage show with the Spiders from Mars—Ronson, Bolder, and Woodmansey—at the Toby Jug pub in Tolworth in Kingston upon Thames on 10 February 1972. The show was hugely popular, catapulting him to stardom as he toured the UK over the next six months and creating, as described by Buckley, a "cult of Bowie" that was "unique—its influence lasted longer and has been more creative than perhaps almost any other force within pop fandom."Buckley (2005): pp. 135–36 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), combining the hard rock elements of The Man Who Sold the World with the lighter experimental rock and pop of Hunky Dory, was released in June.

By this time Scott wanted to move into production, and Bowie said he was about to start a new album and didn't feel comfortable about solely producing himself, so it was agreed that they would co-produce what became Hunky Dory. After the album was completed, but before it was even released, work began on his next album – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars – again with Scott as co-producer. Scott went on to co- produce Bowie's Aladdin Sane and Pin Ups albums, as well as the little-seen Midnight Special television program episode "The 1980 Floor Show". During his time at Trident Studios, Scott also teamed up with Supertramp for Crime of the Century in what amounted to a breakthrough album nearly everywhere in the world except the United States.

Discogs - Freddi Buretti - profile & discography Bowie came up with the idea of combining Burretti and Arnold Corns, and with the help of Mick Ronson, Mick Woodmansey and Trevor Bolder, a revised version of Arnold Corns was created during the spring of 1971. Bowie was writing material that later became Hunky Dory, as well as songs earmarked for Burretti. Burretti as the frontman was a total fabrication. The first session by the band, on 10 March 1971, which included "Lady Stardust", "Right on Mother" and "Moonage Daydream" was recorded at the Radio Luxembourg Studios. This was followed by a session, recorded at the Trident Studios on 4 June 1971, which included "Man in the Middle" and "Looking for a Friend". The band’s first single, "Moonage Daydream" (with a spoken intro "whenever you're ready") / "Hang On to Yourself", was released on B&C; Records on 7 May 1971 and was a flop.

Hunky Dory has frequently appeared on several lists of the greatest albums of all time by multiple publications. In 1998, Q magazine readers voted it the 43rd greatest album of all time; in 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 16 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. The album ranked number 16 and number 23 in the 1998 and 2000 editions of Colin Larkin's book All Time Top 1000 Albums. In their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Rolling Stone ranked it number 107 in 2003, number 108 in the 2012 revised list, and number 88 in the 2020 revised list. In 2004, Pitchfork ranked the album 80th on their list of the 100 Best Albums of the 1970s, one place above Ziggy Stardust. In the same year, VH1 placed it 47th in their list of the 100 greatest albums.

Talbot has continued to write for film and television, with notable scores including The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Garth Jennings, 2005); Penelope (Mark Palansky, 2006); Son of Rambow (Garth Jennings, 2007); Is Anybody There? (John Crowley, 2008); Franklyn (Gerald McMorrow, 2008); Burke and Hare (John Landis, 2010); and Hunky Dory (Marc Evans, 2011), for which Talbot developed orchestral arrangements of pop songs with the film's young actors and musicians, alongside writing the largely electronic score. Following his work on BBC Two comedy series The League of Gentlemen (1999–2002), Talbot wrote the theme and, with Jeremy Holland-Smith, the score for League co-creators and actors Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's new series, Psychoville (2011–12). Further work for the BBC has included the theme and (with Jeremy Holland-Smith and Richard Chester) score for the popular children's series Tracy Beaker Returns (2010–12).

They invited Reed to make his first UK appearance as a surprise guest at a 'Friends of the Earth, Save the Whale Benefit Concert' with Bowie and The Spiders from Mars at the Royal Festival Hall on July 8, 1972. This concert took place just two days after Bowie's performance of "Starman" on Top of the Pops - widely considered to be a turning point in his career. With Bowie on the brink of stardom (Ziggy Stardust hit #5 and Hunky Dory #3 on the UK charts and hundreds of Ziggy clones attended his concerts), Defries informed his staff "As far as RCA in America are concerned, the young man with red hair sitting at the end of this table is the biggest thing to come out of England since the Beatles. And if we get this right there’s every possibility we will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger".

The song features a string arrangement from Ronson, which biographer Nicholas Pegg describes as being more similar to the style of Bowie's previous album Hunky Dory (1971) than the rest of Ziggy Stardust. The chorus is loosely based on "Over the Rainbow" from the film The Wizard of Oz, alluding to the "Starman"'s extraterrestrial origins (over the rainbow) (the octave leap on ("Star-man") is identical to that of Judy Garland's ("some-where") in "Over the Rainbow"). Doggett states that whereas "Over the Rainbow" "used its cathartic rise to introduce a refrain that was emotionally, and melodically, expansive", the leap in "Starman" "was followed by a more uncertain melody, reflecting his character's innate lack of confidence." Pegg notes that Bowie would change the chorus to "There's a Starman, over the rainbow" during his performances at the Rainbow Theatre in August 1972, effectively establishing the connection between the two songs.

Legacy (The Very Best of David Bowie) (also known as Bowie Legacy) is a greatest hits album by English musician David Bowie, released on 11 November 2016 through Sony Music Entertainment in the US and Warner Music Group in the UK and several territories. The album's contents are mostly identical to the two-disc edition of Bowie's previous greatest hits album Nothing Has Changed (2014). "Love Is Lost" and "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)", which were present on Nothing Has Changed, are replaced by three new selections: "Lazarus" and "I Can't Give Everything Away", both from Bowie's final studio album Blackstar (2016), and the radio edit of the Heathen song "Slow Burn" (which also appears on the three-disc version of Nothing Has Changed). Additionally, a new mix of "Life on Mars?" by Ken Scott, the song's original co-producer, replaces the original version from Hunky Dory (1971), and was released as a single and a special music video to promote the compilation.

"Starman", issued as an April single ahead of the album, was to cement Bowie's UK breakthrough: both single and album charted rapidly following his July Top of the Pops performance of the song. The album, which remained in the chart for two years, was soon joined there by the 6-month-old Hunky Dory. At the same time the non-album single "John, I'm Only Dancing", and "All the Young Dudes", a song he wrote and produced for Mott the Hoople, were successful in the UK. The Ziggy Stardust Tour continued to the United States.Sandford (1997): pp. 93–95 Bowie contributed backing vocals, keyboards, and guitar to Reed's 1972 solo breakthrough Transformer, co-producing the album with Mick Ronson.Buckley (2000): p. 156 The following year, Bowie co-produced and mixed The Stooges album Raw Power alongside Iggy Pop. His own Aladdin Sane (1973) topped the UK chart, his first number-one album.

Transformer was produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson, both of whom had been strongly influenced by Reed's work with the Velvet Underground. Bowie had obliquely referenced the Velvet Underground in the cover notes for his album Hunky Dory and regularly performed both "White Light/White Heat" and "I'm Waiting for the Man" in concerts and on the BBC during 1971–1973. He even began recording "White Light/White Heat" for inclusion on Pin Ups, but it was never completed; Ronson ended up using the backing track for his solo album Play Don't Worry in 1974. Mick Ronson (who was at the time the lead guitarist with Bowie's band, the Spiders from Mars) played a major role in the recording of the album at Trident Studios, serving as the co-producer and primary session musician (contributing guitar, piano, recorder and backing vocals), as well as arranger, notably contributing the string arrangement for "Perfect Day".

Following his psychedelic pop-influenced self- titled debut album in 1967, he released his first successful single "Space Oddity", which introduced the fictional astronaut Major Tom. He then released his folk rock-inspired second self-titled album in 1969, the hard rock The Man Who Sold the World (1970) and the art pop Hunky Dory (1971), which represented an artistic breakthrough for Bowie, containing songs such as "Changes" and "Life on Mars?". Between 1972 and 1974, Bowie was a pioneer of the glam rock genre, as showcased on The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), which launched Bowie to stardom, Aladdin Sane and the covers album Pin Ups (both 1973), and Diamond Dogs (1974). His songs from this era include "Suffragette City", "The Jean Genie", "Rebel Rebel" and "All the Young Dudes" (made famous by Mott the Hoople), the last two of which are regarded as glam anthems. Young Americans (1975) showcased Bowie's interest in soul and R&B; music, as well as funk ("Fame"). Station to Station (1976) was the vehicle for his persona the Thin White Duke, and is commonly known as the musical transition between Young Americans and his experimental Berlin Trilogy, consisting of Low (1977), "Heroes" (1977) and Lodger (1979).