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"All the Young Dudes" was a song written by English singer-songwriter David Bowie, originally recorded and released as a single by the English rock band “Mott The Hoople” in 1972 on the Columbia Record label.
The song originated after Bowie came into contact with Mott the Hoople's bassist Peter Watts and learned that the band was ready to split due to continued lack of commercial success. When the band rejected his first offer of a composition, (“Suffragette City”) Bowie wrote "All the Young Dudes" in short order especially for them. Produced by Bowie, he gave the song to the band after they rejected “Suffragette City”, a hit song that later was featured on his album release titled “The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars” .
Regarded as an anthem of the genre “Glam Rock” the song received acclaim, and was a commercial success. Bowie himself once claimed that the song was not intended to be an anthem for glam, that it actually carried a darker message of apocalypse. According to an interview in 1973 Bowie gave to “Rolling Stone”, the boys are carrying the same news that the newscaster was carrying in the song “Five Years” from Ziggy Stardust: The news being the fact that the Earth had only five years left to live
In the 2017 film “Beside Bowie”, Kevin Cann (author of David Bowie: A Chronology) stated that "'All the Young Dudes' is David's version of Lou Reed’s “Walk On The Wild Side”, which germinated from Lou Reed lending him a demo of the song.
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