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All the Young Dudes is the fifth studio album by Mott the Hoople, released in 1972. It was their initial album for the CBS Records label (Columbia Records in North America), after three years with Island Records in the UK and Atlantic Records in North America.
All the Young Dudes was a turning point for the then-struggling British band. Mott the Hoople were about to break up when David Bowie stepped in and gave them the song "All the Young Dudes". Bowie also produced the album, which took Mott "from potential has-beens to avatars of the glam rock movement". A remastered and expanded version was released by Sony BMG on the Columbia Legacy label in the United Kingdom and the United States on 21 February 2006.
The title track, "All the Young Dudes", was released as a single prior to the album and charted worldwide, becoming the "ultimate '70s glitterkid anthem". "Sweet Jane", a cover of the Velvet Underground song from their 1970 album Loaded, was issued as a single in Canada, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United States, though not in their home market of the UK. "One of the Boys", originally the B-side of "All the Young Dudes", was also released in North America and Continental Europe.
All The Young (formerly called 'New Education') is a four-piece indie rock band from Stoke-on-Trent, UK. The band have so far toured with Morrissey, Kaiser Chiefs and the Courteeners and have recorded two singles and more recently released a live set from a show at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow, UK. They also opened up 2 nights of The Wombats tour in liverpool. They are currently touring alongside Pigeon Detectives and are soon to be playing at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. Their debut album, Welcome Home was released on 2 April 2012, and has been recorded by Garth Richardson and mixed by Rich Costey. It debuted at no. 32 on the UK Album Chart update
David Bowie ( /ˈboʊ.i/ BOH-ee; born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. He is known for his distinctive voice and the intellectual depth and eclecticism of his work.
Bowie first caught the eye and ear of the public in July 1969, when his song "Space Oddity" reached the top five of the UK Singles Chart. After a three-year period of experimentation he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with the flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust, spearheaded by the hit single "Starman" and the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Bowie's impact at that time, as described by biographer David Buckley, "challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day" and "created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture." The relatively short-lived Ziggy persona proved merely one facet of a career marked by continual reinvention, musical innovation and striking visual presentation.
Well, Billy rapped all night about his suicide
How he kick it in the head when he reached twenty-five
Speed jive don't want to stay alive when you're twenty-five
And Wendy's stealing clothes from marks and sparks
And Freedy's got spots from ripping off the stars from his face
Funky little boat race
Now, the television man is crazy
Saying we're juvenile, deliquent wrecks
Oh man, I need TV when I got T-Rex
Oh brother you guessed
All the young dudes carry the news
Boogaloo dudes carry the news
All the young dudes carry the news
Boogaloo dudes carry the news
Now Lucy looks sweet 'cause she dresses like a queen
And she can kick like a mule, it's a real mean team
But we can love, oh yeah, we can love
And my brother's back at home with his Beatles and his Stones
We never got it off on that revolution stuff
What a drag, too many snags
Now I've drunk a lot of wine and I'm feeling fine
Gonna race some cat to bed
Is this concrete all around or is it in my head?
Oh brother you you guessed
All the young dudes carry the news
Boogaloo dudes carry the news
All the young dudes carry the news
Boogaloo dudes carry the news
All the young dudes
(Hey, dudes)
Carry the news
(Stand up)
Boogaloo dudes
(I want to kiss you)
Carry the news
All the young dudes
(I want to talk to you)
Carry the news
(I want to see you, dudes)
Boogaloo dudes carry the news
(I want to kiss you)
All the young dudes
(Stand up)
Carry the news
(I want to kiss you)
Boogaloo dudes carry the news
(I want to talk to you, dudes)
All the young dudes
(Stand up)
Carry the news
(What dudes)
Boogaloo dudes
(I want to kiss you)
Carry the news
(I want to see you, dudes)
All the young dudes
(I want to talk to you)
Carry the news
(What dudes)
Boogaloo dudes
(I want to kiss you)
Carry the news
(I want to kiss you)
All the young dudes
(Yeah, do you know what I'm talking about?)
Carry the news
(I want to kiss you)
Boogaloo dudes carry the news
(Stand up)
All the young dudes
(I want to talk to dudes)