David Bowie's 'Hunky Dory' was released 48 years ago today. Inside the making of the album
Bowie spent at least six months perfecting the songs. By the time he hit London’s Trident Studios in the summer of 1971, he had completed demos for 10 of them. “He realized that the folk period was dying out and he needed to move on,” says Bolder. “Especially with glam bands like T. Rex moving along.”
Bowie assembled a band – including guitarist Mick Ronson and future Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman – that could amplify his folk tunes into glammy, grandiose rockers. “We went into the studio, and I had total freedom to do whatever I liked,” Wakeman said. “I still rate it as the finest collection of songs on one album.”
On “Changes,” Bowie offered a challenge to pop’s reigning stars, singing, “Look out, you rock & rollers.” “I guess it was more being sort of arrogant,” he said in 2002. “It’s sort of baiting an audience, saying, ‘Look, I’m going to be so fast, you’re not going to keep up with me.'” “Life on Mars?” told the story of a girl with “mousy hair” who goes to the movies as an escape from life.
The album was recorded in just two weeks, with the group averaging one song per day. The band shacked up in Bowie’s London apartment, crashing in sleeping bags on the balcony. “Dave would drive us and all the gear into central London in the morning,” said Bolder. “Afterward, we’d all go down to the pub and drink. Nobody really knew who David was at that point.”and everything that would come after it. “It provided me, for the first time, with an actual audience,” Bowie later said.
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