"All the Young Dudes" is a song written by English singer-songwriter

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, originally recorded and released as a single by the English rock band

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in 1972 by

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. Bowie produced the song, which he had given to the band after they rejected his "

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". Bowie would subsequently record the song himself. Regarded as an anthem of

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, the song has received acclaim and was a commercial success. In 2021, ''

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'' ranked "All the Young Dudes" number 166 in its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It is also one of the

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's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.

Background and recording

By 1972,

were on the verge of splitting up. Having been together for three years, the band had released four well-received albums and developed a small loyal following but had failed to garner commercial success. An appearance on the BBC television programme ''

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'' in late 1971 was not enough to push their recent single "Midnight Lady" onto the charts. The band had also finished a tour which left them financially unstable. On 4 February 1972, David Bowie sent the band a demo of "

" in hopes they would record it. The band played it and believed it did not fit their style. Bassist Pete Watts contacted Bowie in late March 1972 and politely rejected it, stating the band broke up. Upon learning this, Bowie contacted Watts back two hours later and said, "I've written a song for you since we spoke, which could be great." Bowie had just finished recording two albums back-to-back and had another single, " John, I'm Only Dancing", prepared for release, so he was eager to write for other artists. While Bowie's manager Tony Defries worked on signing the band with

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, Bowie met with Watts a few days later and played "All the Young Dudes" on acoustic guitar. Watts recalled: "He hadn't got all the words but the song just blew me away, especially when he hit the chorus." Watts then introduced Bowie to the rest of the band at an office located at

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in London, where Bowie sat cross-legged on the floor and played the band the song. The band were ecstatic. Ian Hunter recalled: "He just played it on an acoustic guitar. I knew straight away it was a hit. There were chills going down my spine. It's only happened to me a few times in my life, when you know that this is a biggie". Drummer

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said: "We couldn't believe it. In the office at Regent Street he's strumming it on his guitar and I'm thinking, he wants to give us that? He must be crazy! We broke our necks to say yes! You couldn't fail to see it was a great song." After playing it, Bowie told them he would produce the track for release as a single while his manager, Tony Defries, informed them he would become their manager. Knowing the track would be a hit, the band agreed to not break up. Mott the Hoople recorded "All the Young Dudes" at

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in London on 14 May 1972, with Bowie producing. The song was engineered and mixed by Keith Harwood, and featured handclaps by

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and security guard Stuey George. Describing the session, Hunter said: "It was a high, because we knew we were singing a hit." Bowie recorded a guide vocal for Hunter, which was remixed over the original backing track and released on the 1998 box set ''All the Young Dudes: The Anthology''. As recounted by

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in a 1972 ''

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'' review, the band added a long extended fadeout to the song. "As the chorus repeats to a fade, Hunter calls out: 'Hey, you there. You with the glasses. I want you. I want you in the front. Now.' Soon, he loves and faces down his victim, who I imagine as some hapless

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fan. 'How did it feel?' someone asks. Hunter's reply is barely audible, the last word of the song: 'Sick.'" In his book ''Rock on the Wild Side: Gay Male Images in Popular Music of the Rock Era'', Wayne Studer refers to this as Hunter "camping it up."

Composition

"All the Young Dudes" is a

song in the key of D. With its

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-like music, youth suicide references and calls to an imaginary audience, the song bore similarities to Bowie's own "

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", the final track from ''Ziggy Stardust''. Described as being to glam rock what "

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" was to the

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era, the lyrics

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contemporary stars T. Rex and contained references to

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and

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. ''

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'' editors

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and

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have described the track as "one of that rare breed: rock songs which hymn the solidarity of the disaffected without distress or sentimentality". Bowie himself once claimed that the song was not intended to be an anthem for glam and actually carried a darker message of apocalypse. According to an interview Bowie gave to ''

'' magazine in 1973, 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. Bowie explains: "'All the Young Dudes' is a song about this news. It's no hymn to the youth, as people thought. It is completely the opposite." "All the Young Dudes" is also thought of as a

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said "It's a Gay Anthem! A rallying call to the young dudes to come out in the streets and show that they were beautiful and gay and proud of it."

Release and aftermath

"All the Young Dudes" was released by

in the UK on 28 July 1972, with the catalogue number CBS 8271. It was a commercial success, peaking at No. 3 on the

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, No. 37 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 (in November), and No. 31 in Canada (also in November). Mott the Hoople titled their

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after the song, which was produced by Bowie and recorded at

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in London during the summer of 1972. Throughout autumn 1972, the band joined Bowie and

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on tour in the US. On 29 November, Bowie boosted their profile by introducing them on stage, including at the

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near

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and performed the song with Hunter; this performance was released on the 1998 compilation album ''All the Way from Stockholm to Philadelphia''. The original Mott the Hoople release had to be changed lyrically in order that it might be played on UK radio and television. The line in the second verse: "Wendy's stealing clothes from Marks and Sparks" was a reference to UK retailer

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, also known by that colloquialism. As such, air play of the song in its original form would have breached broadcasting regulations relating to advertising in force at the time. The line was replaced with: "Wendy's stealing clothes from unlocked cars". Bowie took to performing "All the Young Dudes" on his

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, and a medley version appears on the album ''

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'', the live recording of the last Ziggy show that was finally released officially in 1983. Bowie's first released version of the song was in 1974 on ''

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''. Bowie had also offered "

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" to Mott the Hoople following "All the Young Dudes", but they turned down this offer, at least partially owing to the then-current success of their own "

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". According to an anecdote by Bowie on the ''VH1 Storytellers'' (2009) album (track 7), his annoyance at the rejection prompted Bowie to shave his eyebrows while in Florida. In 1992, twenty years after their duet in Philadelphia, Bowie and Hunter again performed the song together with the surviving members of

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, and

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and

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at the

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. The song was also featured during the

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as well as the

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, and is included on the

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releases of the latter. "All the Young Dudes" was featured in the 1995 film ''

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'', the 2007 Jason Reitman film ''

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'' and the 2008 film ''

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''. It is also used in Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's 2010 film, '' Cemetery Junction''.

Reception

"All the Young Dudes" has received critical acclaim, and is regarded as one of glam rock's best recordings. In its review of the single, ''

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'' said that the "'

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'-ish hook takes on classic status" and "lead singer Ian Hunter vocalizes and acts magnificently." In a review for its parent album, in which he describes it as one of the "most satisfying glam records",

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calls "All the Young Dudes" "one of the all-time great rock songs", further praising Bowie's involvement. Mark Deming, also of AllMusic, further praised the song, calling it one of Hunter's best songs, even if he didn't write it. In 2004, ''

'' ranked "All the Young Dudes" number 253 in its list of

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, moving down to number 256 on its 2010 updated list, and moving up to number 166 in its 2021 revised list. It is also one of the

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of ''

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'' ranked it the fifth best glam-rock song of all time in 2013. Based on the song's appearances in professional rankings and listings, the aggregate website

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lists "All the Young Dudes" as the 7th most acclaimed song of 1972, the 60th most acclaimed song of the 1970s and the 271st most acclaimed song in history.

Personnel

Personnel per biographer Chris O'Leary. * Ian Hunter – lead vocals, piano *

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– acoustic guitar, lead guitar, backing vocals *

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– bass, backing vocals *

– drums, tambourine *

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–

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, backing vocals *

– backing vocals * Stan Tippins – backing vocals * Stuey George – handclaps *

– handclaps

Charts

Cover versions

"All the Young Dudes" has been covered by many artists as album tracks, B-sides and in live performances.

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(of

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) released the song as a single in 1990, which became a hit in Northern Europe, peaking at number 23 in the UK singles chart. The song also features on his first solo album,''

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''.

David Bowie version

Bowie's own studio version, recorded in December 1972 during the sessions for '' Aladdin Sane'', went unreleased until 1995 when it appeared in

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on the album ''

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''. It was subsequently included, again in mono, on '' The Best of David Bowie 1969/1974'', the 2-disc US version of '' Best of Bowie'', and the 30th Anniversary edition of '' Aladdin Sane''. A stereo version, which is around a minute shorter than the mono version, circulated unofficially among collectors and finally saw official release in November 2014 on Bowie's ''

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'' compilation set. There also exists a version consisting of the backing track for Mott the Hoople's version with Bowie's guide vocal. A variant of this version, combining Bowie's vocal on the verses with Ian Hunter's on the chorus, was released on the 2006 reissue of ''All the Young Dudes''. Bowie also used the music in reverse as the basis for "Move On", a track on his 1979 album, '' Lodger''.

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References

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