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"All the Young Dudes" is a song by David Bowie, originally recorded and released as a single by Mott The Hoople in 1972.

Regarded as one of glam rock's anthems, the song originated after Bowie came into contact with Mott The Hoople's bassist Pete "Overend" Watts and learned that the band was ready to split due to continued lack of commercial success. When Mott rejected his first offer of a composition, "Suffragette City" (from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars), Bowie purpose-designed and wrote "All the Young Dudes" in short order, allegedly on the floor of a London flat in front of the band's lead singer, Ian Hunter.

With its dirge-like music, youth suicide references and calls to an imaginary audience, the song bore similarities to Bowie's own "Rock 'N' Roll Suicide", the final track from Ziggy Stardust. Described as being to glam rock what "All You Need Is Love" was to the hippie era, it name-checked contemporary pop star T. Rex and contained put-down references to bands of the 60s, namely The Beatles and The Rolling Stones ("My brother's back at home with his Beatles and his Stones/We never got it off on that revolution stuff").

Mott The Hoople's single was released in July 1972 and made #3 in the UK charts. In November that year, Bowie introduced the band on stage at the Tower Philadelphia and performed the song with Hunter (released on All the Way from Stockholm to Philadelphia in 1998 and the expanded version of All The Young Dudes in 2006). Bowie took to performing "All The Young Dudes" on his own 1973 tour, and a medley version appears on the album Ziggy Stardust - The Motion Picture, the live recording of the last Ziggy show that was finally released officially in 1983.

Bowie’s own studio version from 1972 went unreleased until 1995 when it appeared on RarestOneBowie (it was subsequently included on The Best of David Bowie 1969/1974, the 30th Anniversary edition of Aladdin Sane
, and the 2-disc US version of Best of Bowie
). However, the composer’s first released version was in 1974 on the David Live
double LP. Bowie also used the music in reverse as the basis for Move On, a track on his 1979 album, Lodger
.

"All The Young Dudes" has been covered by several artists including Mick Ronson, Travis, Ozzy Osbourne, Bruce Dickinson, The F-Ups and Ian Hunter solo. In 1992, twenty years after their duet in Philadelphia, Bowie and Hunter again performed the song together at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert.

Track listing

# "All The Young Dudes" (Bowie) - 3:32 # "One of the Boys” (Ralphs/Hunter) - 6:46

Personnel

Verden Allen: organ, backing vocals
David Bowie
: saxophone
Dale "Buffin" Griffin: drums
Ian Hunter: guitar, piano, keyboards, vocals
Mick Ralphs: guitar, backing vocals
Mick Ronson: strings, brass
Pete "Overend" Watts: bass

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Actors - All the Young Dudes

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