A song from David Bowie's 1974 album Diamond Dogs. The song is based and inspired from the George Orwell book Nineteen Eighty-Four. George Orwell's widow would not give Bowie the rights to make a play based on 1984 but many of the songs intended for the play ended up on the album Diamond Dogs, including : Diamond Dogs, Candidate, We Are the Dead, and Big Brother. For the 2001 novella by Alastair Reynolds, see Diamond Dogs (novella) Diamond Dogs is a concept album by David Bowie, originally released by RCA in 1974. ... Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. ... Glam rock (less commonly glitter rock), a style of rock music popularized in the 1970s, was mostly a British phenomenon and confined to larger cities in the U.S., such as New York and Los Angeles. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... RCA, formerly an initialism for the Radio Corporation of America, is now a trademark used by two companies for products descended from that common ancestor: Thomson SA, which manufactures consumer electronics like RCA-branded televisions, DVD players, video cassette recorders, direct broadcast satellite decoders, camcorders, audio equipment, telephones, and related... David Bowie David Bowie (born David Robert Jones on January 8, 1947 in London) is a British rock musician and actor. ... For the 2001 novella by Alastair Reynolds, see Diamond Dogs (novella) Diamond Dogs is a concept album by David Bowie, originally released by RCA in 1974. ... George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell was a British author. ... A centennial printing of Nineteen Eighty-Four Nineteen Eighty-Four (often 1984) is a political novel written by George Orwell. ...

A version was also played live (and as a studio alternate take) where the song 1984 was blended with the song Dodo in the middle (referred to as 1984/Dodo). The was the first song played at the "The 1980 Floor Show."