Hunky Dory (2015

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Within the context of his career, it is considered to be the album where "Bowie starts to become Bowie", definitively discovering his voice and style. I cleaned the record, cleaned my needle, and still there was way to much static and noise to be acceptable.

K. release of Changes as a single, HUNKY DORY will be issued as a limited edition 50th anniversary picture disc, featuring the 2015 vinyl remaster and a poster featuring the annotated back cover image of the album.Following the release of his 1970 album, The Man Who Sold the World, Bowie took time off from recording and touring. Muito bem produzido, conta com excelentes músicos como Mick Ronson e Rick Wakeman (que entraria logo em seguida para o Yes.

Music journalist Peter Doggett concurs, regarding Hunky Dory as "a collective of attractively accessible pop songs, through which Bowie tested out his feelings about the nature of stardom and power". Bowie was also without a backing band, as the musicians on The Man Who Sold the World – including its producer and bassist Tony Visconti, guitarist Mick Ronson and drummer Mick Woodmansey – departed in August 1970 due to personal conflicts with the artist. After the hard rock sound of The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory features a stylistic shift from Bowie towards art pop and melodic pop rock. According to O'Leary, the US date was before the UK one, although he questions Billboard 's reported date of Saturday, 4 December.

A few months after he had terminated Bowie's contract with Mercury, Defries showcased the newly recorded Hunky Dory to multiple labels in the US, including New York City's RCA Records. To the rear its the same image and handwritten style track list and annotations, but no 'Mainmain' or 'Gem Productions' although 'Gem Productions' appears on the labels and the logo is on the insert. With Wakeman in the line-up, on 9 July Bowie and his band recorded two takes of "Bombers" and "It Ain't Easy", the latter featuring backing vocals by Dana Gillespie. Wakeman contended in a BBC interview in 2017 that Bowie played piano in the beginning section before he took over for the rest of the track.

Originally shot in monochrome, the image was recoloured by illustrator Terry Pastor, a partner at Covent Garden's recently initiated Main Artery design studio with George Underwood; Pastor later designed the cover and sleeve for Ziggy Stardust. I can still read the words 'corporation 1971, RCA records, New York, NY, printed in USA' under the UK print. I bought a mint sealed copy of this and there is a scratching sound on side 1 Changes track above Bowie's left eye.The album received little promotion from RCA due to its unusual cover image and a warning that Bowie would be changing his image for his next album. Schrieber stated: " Hunky Dory marked the true start of what would be one of the most successful careers in rock music, spawning millions of scarily obsessive fans. All image and audio content is used by permission of the copyright holders or their agents, and/or according to fair dealing as per the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Bowie and the future Spiders officially started work on the new album at Trident Studios in London on 8 June 1971. The song "Andy Warhol" is a tribute to American artist, producer, and director Andy Warhol, [19] who had inspired Bowie since the mid-1960s and was described by him as "one of the leaders" of "the media of the streets, street messages".