Diamond Dogs
Studio album by David Bowie
Released	April 24, 1974 Rykodisc Reissue October 16, 1990
Recorded	Olympic and Island Studios, London Ludolf Studios, Hilversum, Netherlands October 1973 – February 1974
Genre	Rock, Glam rock
Length	38:25
Label	RCA Records
Producer(s)	David Bowie
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (C+) link Rolling Stone (not rated) link
David Bowie chronology
Pin Ups (1973)	Diamond Dogs (1974)	David Live (1974)

Diamond Dogs is a concept album by David Bowie, originally released by RCA in 1974. Thematically it was a marriage of the novel 1984 by George Orwell and Bowie's own glam-tinged vision of a post-apocalyptic world. Bowie had wanted to make a theatrical production of Orwell's book and began writing material after completing sessions for his 1973 album Pin Ups, but the late author’s estate denied the rights.^[1] The songs wound up on the second half of Diamond Dogs instead where, as the titles indicate, the 1984 theme was prominent. Image File history File links Diamond dogs album cover This image is of a music album or single cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the album or the artist(s) which produced the music in question. ... A Studio Album is an album of regular studio recordings. ... David Bowie (born David Robert Jones on January 8, 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer, whose work spans more than four decades. ... April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (115th in leap years). ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Rykodisc Records is an American record label, and subsidiary of Warner Music Group. ... October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years). ... This article is about the year. ... Olympic Studios is a commercial recording studio located at 117 Church Road, in the south-western suburb of Barnes in London. ... London — containing the City of London — is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England and a major world city. With over seven million inhabitants (Londoners) in Greater London area, it is amongst the most densely populated areas in Western Europe. ... is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Rock is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars, and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles, however saxophones have been omitted from newer subgenres of rock music since the 90s. ... Glam is also the name of the lead singer of Wig Wam. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... {{infobox record label Donald Dempsey (right) with songwriter Joseph Rigatuso | parent = Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Inc. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the performers, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes . ... David Bowie (born David Robert Jones on January 8, 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer, whose work spans more than four decades. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 2. ... Robert Christgau (sometimes abbreviated in print to Xgau), born April 18, 1942, is an American essayist, music journalist, and rock critic. ... Rolling Stone is an American magazine devoted to music, politics and popular culture. ... David Bowie (born David Robert Jones on January 8, 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer, whose work spans more than four decades. ... Pin Ups is a 1973 covers album by David Bowie. ... David Live is David Bowie’s first official live album, originally released by RCA in 1974. ... The Beach Boys Little Deuce Coupe album, one of the first concept albums In popular music, a concept album is an album which is unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical (Shuker 2002, p. ... David Bowie (born David Robert Jones on January 8, 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer, whose work spans more than four decades. ... {{infobox record label Donald Dempsey (right) with songwriter Joseph Rigatuso | parent = Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Inc. ... Nineteen Eighty-Four (commonly abbreviated to 1984) is a dystopian novel by the English writer George Orwell, and first published by Secker and Warburg in 1949. ... It has been suggested that Eileen OShaughnessy be merged into this article or section. ... The acronym LAMP (or L.A.M.P.) refers to a set of free software programs commonly used together to run dynamic Web sites or servers: Linux, the operating system; Apache, the Web server; MySQL, the database management system (or database server); Perl, PHP, Python, and/or Primate (mod mono... Pin Ups is a 1973 covers album by David Bowie. ...

Though the album was recorded and released after the 'retirement' of Ziggy Stardust in mid-1973, and featured its own lead character in Halloween Jack ("a real cool cat" who lived in the decaying "Hunger City"), Ziggy was seen to be still very much alive in Diamond Dogs, as evident from Bowie's haircut on the cover and the glam-trash style of the first single "Rebel Rebel".^[2] As was the case with some songs on Aladdin Sane, the influence of The Rolling Stones was also prevalent, particularly in the chugging title track.^[3] Elsewhere, however, Bowie had moved on from his earlier work with the epic song suite, "Sweet Thing"/"Candidate"/"Sweet Thing (Reprise)", whilst "Rock 'n' Roll With Me" and the Shaft-inspired wah-wah guitar style of "1984" provided a foretaste of Bowie's next, 'plastic soul', phase. The original vinyl album ended with the juddering refrain "Bruh-bruh!", a corruption of "(Big) Brother", repeating insistently ad infinitum. The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars is a 1972 concept album by David Bowie, praised as the definitive album of the 1970s by Melody Maker magazine. ... Rebel Rebel was a single by David Bowie. ... Aladdin Sane (i. ... Rolling Stones redirects here. ... Diamond Dogs is a song by David Bowie. ... Sweet Thing is a song written by David Bowie for the album Diamond Dogs in 1974. ... Candidate is a song written by David Bowie in 1973 and intended for his 1984 musical. ... Rock n Roll with Me is a song written by David Bowie and Warren Peace for the Diamond Dogs album in 1974. ... Shaft is a 1971 film used as a model for blaxploitation films, but many debate whether it actually falls under the category of blaxploitation itself. ... A song from David Bowies 1974 album Diamond Dogs. ... For other uses, see Soul music (disambiguation). ...

Diamond Dogs was the first Bowie album since 1969 to not feature any of the 'Spiders From Mars', the backing band made famous by Ziggy Stardust. Instead, Herbie Flowers played bass with drums being shared between Aynsley Dunbar and Tony Newman. In a move that surprised some commentators, Bowie himself took on the lead guitar role previously held by Mick Ronson, producing what NME critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray described as a "scratchy, raucous, semi-amateurish sound that gave the album much of its characteristic flavour".^[4] Diamond Dogs was also a milestone in Bowie's career as it reunited him with Tony Visconti, who provided string arrangements and helped mix the album, and who would go on to co-produce almost all his work for the rest of the decade. Herbie Flowers is an English studio musician specialising in bass guitar, double-bass and tuba, who came to prominence as the bass player with David Bowie and Elton John, and then later Lou Reed. ... Prolific English drummer Aynsley Dunbar (born on January 10, 1946, in Liverpool, England) has worked with some of the top names in rock and roll, including John Mayall, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, David Bowie, and Sammy Hagar. ... Tony Newman is an English rock drummer. ... Mick Ronson (May 26, 1946 – April 29, 1993) was a British guitarist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer. ... 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. ... Tony Visconti in the 1970s Tony Visconti (born April 24, 1944) is a record producer, and often an instrumentalist or singer, who has had a long and illustrious career working with some of the best known popular music artists from the late 1960s onwards, notably T. Rex, David Bowie...

The record was Bowie's glam swansong; according to author David Buckley, "In the sort of move which would come to define his career, Bowie jumped the glam-rock ship just in time, before it drifted into a blank parody of itself".^[5] Though it made #1 in the UK charts and #5 in the US, Diamond Dogs has been criticised as rough in sound and pretentious in theme. However, Bowie's raw guitar style and vision of urban chaos, scavenging children and nihilistic lovers ("We'll buy some drugs and watch a band / And jump in the river holding hands") has also been credited with anticipating the punk revolution that would take place in the following years.^[6] Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...

The cover art features a striking half-dog, half-Bowie figure painted by Guy Peellaert. It was controversial as the full painting clearly showed the hybrid’s genitalia. Very few copies of this original cover made their way into circulation at the time of the album's release. According to the record-collector publication Goldmine price guides, these albums have been among the most expensive record collectibles of all time, as high as thousands of US dollars for a single copy. The genitalia was quickly airbrushed out for the 1974 LP’s gatefold sleeve, although the original artwork (and another rejected cover featuring Bowie in a cordobes hat holding onto a ravenous dog) was included in subsequent Rykodisc/EMI re-issues. Goldmine, established in 1974, is an American magazine that focuses on the collectors market for records, tapes CDs, and music-related memorabilia. ... A gatefold cover or gatefold LP is a form of packaging for LP records which was popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... Rykodisc Records is an American record label, and subsidiary of Warner Music Group. ... The EMI Group is a major record label, based in Kensington in London, in the United Kingdom. ...

Bowie played much of this album on his 1974 US tour (featured on David Live) and some on the Station to Station tour in 1976, but apart from "Rebel Rebel" has rarely performed any of the material in concert since. David Live is David Bowie’s first official live album, originally released by RCA in 1974. ... For the David Bowie album, click here. ...

Track listing

All songs written by David Bowie except where noted. David Bowie (born David Robert Jones on January 8, 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer, whose work spans more than four decades. ...

1. "Future Legend" – 1:05
2. "Diamond Dogs" – 5:56
3. "Sweet Thing" – 3:39
4. "Candidate" – 2:40
5. "Sweet Thing (Reprise)" – 2:31
6. "Rebel Rebel" – 4:30
7. "Rock 'n' Roll With Me" (Bowie, Warren Peace) – 4:00
8. "We Are the Dead" – 4:58
9. "1984" – 3:27
10. "Big Brother" – 3:21
11. "Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family" – 2:00

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Rereleases

Diamond Dogs has been rereleased on CD three times to date, the first being in 1990 by Rykodisc (containing two bonus tracks), the second in 1999 by EMI (featuring 24-bit digitally remastered sound and no bonus tracks) and the third, most recent, in 2004 by EMI being the album's 30th Anniversary Reissue and containing a bonus disc with additional material. An early instrumental version of "Sweet Thing" called "Tragic Moments" (known in bootleg circles as either "Zion" or "A Lad in Vain") was scheduled for inclusion but remains unreleased. CD may stand for: Compact Disc Canadian Forces Decoration Cash Dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) Certificate of Deposit České Dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s... Rykodisc Records is an American record label, and subsidiary of Warner Music Group. ... The EMI Group is a major record label, based in Kensington in London, in the United Kingdom. ... The EMI Group is a major record label, based in Kensington in London, in the United Kingdom. ...

1990 rerelease bonus tracks

All songs written by David Bowie. David Bowie (born David Robert Jones on January 8, 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer, whose work spans more than four decades. ...

1. "Dodo" (Previously unreleased, recorded 1973) – 2:53
2. "Candidate" (Demo version, recorded 1973) – 5:09

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2004 rerelease bonus disc

All songs written by David Bowie except where noted. David Bowie (born David Robert Jones on January 8, 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer, whose work spans more than four decades. ...

1. "1984/Dodo" (Recorded 1973) – 5:29
2. "Rebel Rebel" (US single version, 1974) – 3:00
3. "Dodo" (Also known as "You Didn't Hear It From Me", recorded 1973) – 2:53
4. "Growin' Up" (Bruce Springsteen) (Recorded 1973) – 2:25
5. "Candidate" (Demo version, recorded 1973) – 5:09
6. "Diamond Dogs" (K-Tel Best of Bowie edit, 1980) – 4:41
7. "Candidate" (Intimacy mix) – 2:58
8. "Rebel Rebel" (2003 mix) – 3:09

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Personnel

• David Bowie – vocals, guitars, saxes, Moog synthesizer, Mellotron
• Mike Garson – keyboards
• Herbie Flowers – bass
• Tony Newman – drums

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Additional personnel

• Alan Parker – guitar on "1984"
• Aynsley Dunbar – drums
• Tony Visconti – strings

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Charts

Album

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Certifications

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Notes

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