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Hunky Dory



Background

Hunky Dory
is the fourth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released on 17
December 1971 by RCA Records. Following the release of his 1970 album, The
Man Who Sold the World, Bowie took time o from recording and touring. He
settled down to write new songs, composing on piano rather than guitar as on
earlier tracks. Following a tour of the United States, Bowie assembled a new
backing band consisting of guitarist Mick Ronson, bassist Trevor Bolder and
drummer Mick Woodmansey, and began to record a new album in mid-1971 at
Trident Studios in London. Future Yes member Rick Wakeman contributed on
piano. Bowie co-produced the album with Ken Scott, who had engineered
Bowie's previous two records.

Compared to the guitar-driven hard rock sound of The Man Who Sold the World,
Bowie opted for a warmer, more melodic piano-based pop rock and art pop style
on Hunky Dory. His lyrical concerns on the record range from the compulsive
nature of artistic reinvention on "Changes", to occultism and Nietzschean
philosophy on "Oh! You Pretty Things" and "Quicksand"; several songs make

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cultural and literary references. He was also inspired by his stateside tour to write
songs dedicated to three American icons: Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, and Lou
Reed. The song "Kooks" was dedicated to Bowie's newborn son Duncan. The
album's cover artwork, photographed in monochrome and subsequently
recoloured, features Bowie in a pose inspired by actresses of the Hollywood
Golden Age.

Upon release, Hunky Dory and its lead single "Changes" received little promotion
from RCA who were wary that Bowie would transform his image shortly. Thus,
despite very positive reviews from the British and American music press, the
album initially sold poorly and failed to chart. It was only after the commercial
breakthrough of Bowie's 1972 follow-up album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy
Stardust and the Spiders from Mars that Hunky Dory itself became a commercial
success, peaking at number three on the UK Albums Chart. Retrospectively,
Hunky Dory has been critically acclaimed as one of Bowie's best works, and
features on several lists of the greatest albums of all time. Within the context of
his career, it is considered to be the album where "Bowie starts to become
Bowie", de nitively discovering his voice and style.[1]

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