"All the Young Dudes"
Single by Mott the Hoople
from the album All the Young Dudes
B-side(s)	"One of the Boys"
Released	July 1972
Format	7" single
Recorded	May 1972
Genre	Glam rock
Length	3:32
Label	Columbia Records
Writer(s)	David Bowie
Producer(s)	David Bowie
Peak chart positions
#3 (UK) #37 (US)
Mott the Hoople singles chronology
"Downtown" (1971)	"All the Young Dudes" (1972)	"One of the Boys" (1972)

"All the Young Dudes" is a song written by David Bowie, originally recorded and released as a single by Mott the Hoople in 1972. NME editors Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray have described the track as "one of that rare breed: rock songs which hymn the solidarity of the disaffected without distress or sentimentality".^[1] In 2004, Rolling Stone rated "All the Young Dudes" #253 in its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It is also one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. Image File history File links Alltheyoungdudes_sing. ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... Mott the Hoople was a 1970s British rock and roll and glam rock band with strong R&B roots. ... All the Young Dudes is an album by Mott the Hoople, released in 1972. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... One of the Boys is a single released by Mott the Hoople, in Canada, Germany, Holland and the United States, though not in the UK. The song was featured in a episode of the BBC British Drama series Life on Mars. Categories: | | ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... David Bowie as Glam superstar Ziggy Stardust on the cover of his 1973 Album Aladdin Sane Glam rock (also known as glitter rock), is a style of rock and roll music, which initially surfaced in the post-Hippie early 1970s. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Columbia Records is the oldest brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888, and was the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders. ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... David Bowie (IPA: []) (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... A record chart, also known as a music chart, is a method of ranking music according to popularity during a given period of time. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... Mott the Hoople was a 1970s British rock and roll and glam rock band with strong R&B roots. ... One of the Boys is a single released by Mott the Hoople, in Canada, Germany, Holland and the United States, though not in the UK. The song was featured in a episode of the BBC British Drama series Life on Mars. Categories: | | ... David Bowie (IPA: []) (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. ... Mott the Hoople was a 1970s British rock and roll and glam rock band with strong R&B roots. ... The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a music magazine in the UK which has been published weekly since March 1952. ... Roy Carr is an English music journalist. ... Charles Shaar Murray is an English music journalist. ... This article is about the magazine. ... The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time was the cover story of a special issue of Rolling Stone magazine published in November 2004. ... The Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll is based on the permanent exhibit of the same name. ...

Music and lyrics

Regarded as one of glam rock's anthems,^[1][2] 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.^[3] David Bowie as Glam superstar Ziggy Stardust on the cover of his 1973 Album Aladdin Sane Glam rock (also known as glitter rock), is a style of rock and roll music, which initially surfaced in the post-Hippie early 1970s. ... Pete Overend Watts (born Peter Watts, on 13 May 1947 (some sources have 1949) in Birmingham, England) was a bass guitar player and founding member of 70s rock band Mott The Hoople. ... Suffragette City is a single by David Bowie. ... The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, or simply Ziggy Stardust for short, is a 1972 concept album by David Bowie, praised as the definitive album of the 1970s by Melody Maker magazine. ... Ian Hunter (born Ian Hunter Patterson on June 3, 1939 in Oswestry, Shropshire, England) was the lead singer of the band Mott the Hoople from 1969 until the band broke up in 1974. ...

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. Cited as being to glam rock what "All You Need Is Love" was to the hippie era,^[3] the lyrics name-checked contemporary star T. Rex and contained dismissive references to 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") in a "joyous trashing of the 1960s".^[4] Look up Dirge in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Rock n Roll Suicide was a single by David Bowie. ... All You Need Is Love is a song written by John Lennon (with contributions from Paul McCartney) and first performed by The Beatles on Our World, the first ever live global television link. ... Singer at a modern Hippie movement in Russia A hippie (sometimes spelled hippy) is a member of a specific subculture (often described as a counterculture), that began in the United States in the 1960s, spread to other countries, and declined in the mid-1970s. ... T. Rex (originally known as Tyrannosaurus Rex, also occasionally spelled T Rex or T-Rex), were an English rock band fronted by Marc Bolan. ... The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. ... “Rolling Stones” redirects here. ...

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Release and aftermath

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 near 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. The Tower Theater is a music venue in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, just west of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area    - City 369. ... All the Young Dudes is an album by Mott the Hoople, released in 1972. ... Ziggy Stardust - The Motion Picture is a live album by David Bowie, corresponding to the film of the same name. ...

David 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). 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. In 1992, twenty years after their duet in Philadelphia, Bowie and Hunter again performed the song together with the surviving members of Queen, Mick Ronson, and Def Leppard's Joe Elliot and Phil Collen at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. The Best Of 1969/1979 is an album by rock musician David Bowie, released 1997. ... Aladdin Sane (i. ... Best of Bowie (2002) is the most recent greatest hits album by multi-platinum recording artist David Bowie. ... David Live is David Bowie’s first official live album, originally released by RCA in 1974. ... It has been suggested that Childrens gramophone records be merged into this article or section. ... Lodger is a 1979 album by David Bowie. ... Queen [are] an English rock band, formed in 1970 in London by Brian May, Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor, with John Deacon joining the following year. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Def Leppard are an English hard rock band from Sheffield who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. ... An open air concert on Easter Monday, April 20th 1992 at Londons Wembley Stadium, televised live to over one billion people. ...

Track listing

1. "All the Young Dudes" (David Bowie) – 3:32
2. "One of the Boys” (Mick Ralphs, Ian Hunter) – 6:46

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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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Cover versions

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