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"The Bewlay Brothers" is a song written by David Bowie in 1971 for the album Hunky Dory
. This ballad was the last song written and recorded for Hunky Dory. It has been described as "probably Bowie's densest and most impenetrable song". The composer himself supposedly told producer Ken Scott that this was a song for the American market, because "the Americans always like to read things into things", even though the lyrics "make absolutely no sense". Some commentators have seen references in the song to Bowie's stepbrother Terry, a schizophrenic.

Bowie named his publishing company in the late 1970s Bewley 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.

Other releases

It appeared in the Sound + Vision box in 1989.
An alternate mix was released as a bonus track on the Rykodisc CD release of Hunky Dory in 1990.

Cover versions

Replicants on Replicants (1995)

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