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Just because ... All the way from Memphis .... Oh my the years have gone by (Original Post) Botany Jul 2019 OP
One of my favorite albums Ohiogal Jul 2019 #1
Song about Alice is one of my Favorites. Ligyron Jul 2019 #2
Honaloochie Boggie .... just for fun. Botany Jul 2019 #3
don't think it was a "David Bowie gay love song"... Raster Jul 2019 #7
Negative SoFlaJet Jul 2019 #6
All the Young Dudes... SergeStorms Jul 2019 #4
Holy Crap SoFlaJet Jul 2019 #5

Ligyron

(7,633 posts)
2. Song about Alice is one of my Favorites.
Sat Jul 6, 2019, 04:19 PM
Jul 2019

All the Young Dudes their best effort IMHO. They broke up, some of them combined w some from Free and presto: Bad Company.

Botany

(70,516 posts)
3. Honaloochie Boggie .... just for fun.
Sat Jul 6, 2019, 04:44 PM
Jul 2019


BTW when I was a young I used to listen to "all the young dudes" and feel
all rock n roll but later on I found out it was a David Bowie gay love song.

Raster

(20,998 posts)
7. don't think it was a "David Bowie gay love song"...
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 07:53 AM
Jul 2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Young_Dudes

"Bowie himself once claimed that the song was not intended to be an anthem for glam, that it actually carried a darker message of apocalypse. According to an interview Bowie gave to Rolling Stone magazine in 1973, the boys are carrying the same news that the newscaster was carrying in the song "Five Years" from Ziggy Stardust; the news being the fact that the Earth had only five years left to live. Bowie explains: "All the Young Dudes is a song about this news. It's no hymn to the youth, as people thought. It is completely the opposite." "All the Young Dudes" is also thought of as a gay anthem. Lou Reed said "It's a Gay Anthem! A rallying call to the young dudes to come out in the streets and show that they were beautiful and gay and proud of it."

SoFlaJet

(7,767 posts)
6. Negative
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 10:16 PM
Jul 2019

Mick Ralphs left to start Bad Company and Mott stayed together for a few years after that. Then Ian Hunter went solo and joined forces with the great Mick Ronson until he passed away. I was in the 1st row when Mott headlined at The Uris Theater on Broadway. There was a small band who opened up for them with a skinny lead singer with these weird buck teeth and a name that rhymed with Tween....who was that little English band again? Keep Yourself Alive was their big song on that 1st album also Liar.

SoFlaJet

(7,767 posts)
5. Holy Crap
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 10:11 PM
Jul 2019

I swear to God this song was on my mind this morning and I even played the YouTube video and was amazed to hear Brian May do a cover of it. There's something in the air-as Thunderclap Newman once said

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