Hunky Dory (2015

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Hunky Dory has received critical acclaim since it’s release, and is regarded as one of Bowie’s best works. Hunky Dory has frequently appeared on several lists of the greatest albums of all time by multiple publications. Many reviewers have perceived the track to have homoerotic undertones; others believed it to be about Bowie's relationship with his schizophrenic half-brother Terry Burns, which Bowie confirmed in 1977. According to his then-wife Angela, Bowie had spent time composing songs on piano rather than acoustic guitar, which would "infuse the flavour of the new album". Originally written for Bowie's friend Dana Gillespie, [49] the song is based around a riff played on two acoustic guitars that heavily resembles the intro of Ron Davies' "Silent Song Across the Land".

It has a, more or less, carbon copy of the original lyric insert and my copy also came with a second inner sleeve.It was only after the commercial breakthrough of Bowie's 1972 follow-up album Ziggy Stardust that Hunky Dory itself became a commercial success, peaking at number three on the UK Albums Chart. In 2015, Ultimate Classic Rock included it in their list of the 100 best rock albums from the 1970s.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. After David Bowie completed his third studio album, The Man Who Sold the World, in May 1970, he became less active in both the studio and on stage.

Very Good: The record has obviously been played many times, but displays no major deterioration in sound quality, despite noticeable surface marks and the occasional light scratch. This story has been contested by other band members, including Bolder, who told biographer Kevin Cann: "[That's] rubbish.

Buckley notes that 1971 was a pivotal year for Bowie, the year in which he became "something of a pop-art agent provocateur".Condition - This item is in Excellent condition or better (unless it says otherwise in the above description). The song was also unlike "Space Oddity" and its 1969 parent album, but rather "pure, unashamedly melodic, gleefully commercial, gorgeously mellifluous pop". VG+ (Very Good Plus): This record has clearly been played before, but has only a moderate reduction in sound quality, despite a possible slight loss of shine and some surface marks. 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.

Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. In The Village Voice, Robert Christgau hailed Bowie as "a singer-composer with brains, imagination, and a good idea of how to use a recording console", and the album "a quick change tour de force that is both catchy and deeply felt".According to some reports, per biographer Nicholas Pegg, it was Defries who rejected Kemp, because of his "receding hairline". 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. Hunky Dory is the fourth studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released in the United Kingdom on 17 December 1971 through RCA Records. When preparing the UK edition cover art from the US supplied artwork ( David Bowie - Hunky Dory) RCA mistakenly removed the GEM logo from the rear sleeve.