The band opened up a lot of David Bowie's concerts before and after he got big. One day they told Bowie that they were going to call it quits because they just weren't making enough money to justify touring. So Bowie sat down and wrote this song for them in like 10-15 minutes and just gave it to them for free and sang backing vocals as well. It was such a huge hit that the band was able to keep playing until they wanted to retire. This is just one example of what an insane talent and great person Bowie was.
@greygreen5610
Жыл бұрын
he actually wrote it for himself, for an album and gave it to them
@furansugo1a854
Жыл бұрын
He actually meant to give them Suffragette City, which they refused and then gave them this one.
@GreggOliverBass
Жыл бұрын
@@furansugo1a854 Amazing trivia...
@scottchapin2323
Жыл бұрын
truly
@ohfour-seven6228
Жыл бұрын
And Bowie produced this album as well.
@michaelchilcott210
Жыл бұрын
David Bowie Wrote This One and Gave it to them. Brilliant song 😃😃
@thesnoyls
Жыл бұрын
Bowie sings backup vocals on the chorus too
@happymethehappyone8300
Жыл бұрын
100% True & Already Said That
@Christopher-Baltimore
Жыл бұрын
i wish bowie had kept it for himself i’d rather hear him
@thesnoyls
Жыл бұрын
@@Christopher-Baltimore there's a Bowie version on Spotify
@Christopher-Baltimore
Жыл бұрын
@@thesnoyls ty!
@react2reactions246
Жыл бұрын
I think Lex is spot on. I’ve always heard it as a young generational anthem. I smiled when Lex recognized T Rex, bc you both have come so far 🥹😂
@lipby
Жыл бұрын
I've always assumed it was about sexual liberation, especially for gay dudes.
@react2reactions246
Жыл бұрын
@@lipby that’s the beauty of music, it’s whatever it means to you. Live your truth man.
@lipby
Жыл бұрын
@react2reactions246 drunk a lot of wine and I'm feeling fine, going to bring some cat to bed...hey, you in the glasses--I want you...
@BobbyGeneric145
Жыл бұрын
Me too... Like damn girl loves Boland!
@happymethehappyone8300
Жыл бұрын
When First Released,, Many Thought It Was David Bowie,, But Actually This Song Was An Incredibly Generous Gift From David Bowie To His Friends Mott The Hoople.
@FUBAR1986
Жыл бұрын
So much that David Bowie sound and you’re right first time we heard it we thought it was Bowie’s band
@happymethehappyone8300
Жыл бұрын
@@FUBAR1986 You Speaketh 100% Words Of Truth Wise Brother.
@alicekarberg4738
Жыл бұрын
Pretty sure David Bowie is singing background on the chorus.
@jumpjet777
Жыл бұрын
@Scott Allen Yeah but he does sing it on the album 'David Live - At the Tower Philadelphia', a great album
@dimedraweriv258
Жыл бұрын
I think it sounds more Beatles honestly. The harmonies and guitar tone.
@immoralreplicant1332
Жыл бұрын
In the early 70s my Dad ran a greasy spoon cafe catering to long distance truck drivers amongst others. Like most such places at the time it had a jukebox. My first job was washing dishes in his kitchen on Saturday mornings. I was 8 years old. This song was played endlessly most days & every time I hear it, it brings back memories of that long forgotten world. Also, every time I see the video I remind myself that those young boys & girls in the street scenes are now either getting ready to collect their pensions or already have done. Then I remember I'm only 9 years away from collecting mine !! When it came time to empty the jukebox to change the records out for new ones, I got the guy who came to do it to give me this one.They were usually happy to do so, old records that were no longer hits were no use to them. I still have it. 51 years later. It's the oldest possession I have. Music is memories, but maybe not so much anymore? I suspect if it was today I'd have deleted the download to make room on my phone, or moved it out of the streaming playlist. Times change.
@TheKitchenerLeslie
Жыл бұрын
Seems like Truckers don't get as much respect as they did when we were kids. We'd be lost without them.
@immoralreplicant1332
Жыл бұрын
@@TheKitchenerLeslie Maybe today they think you can just do it with an app? 🤣
@cindiaker5778
Жыл бұрын
I am 58 years old, and music really does carry so much of my memories...so intertwined together. I have always loved music so much. Even now, hearing an old song just transports m back to the time in my life that I first listened to it, especially the teen years. So many great songs were popular in the 70's and I spent so much time at the skating rink and recording cassettes on my old boom box....lol. I remember listening each week to Casey Kasem's Top 40....oh, those were just the best days....and the best memories. Technology has changed everything so much for our youth growing up....and it seems sad to me...but I guess they never knew anything else so us old folks have to grieve all they missed for them.
@stephenbrough8132
Жыл бұрын
FOR A MINUTE I thought I thought you might be the person who ran the cafe where David Bowie and Marc Bolan used to meet up every day and kept giving demos, clothes and other stuff that would become memorabilia to the cafe owner ... An Ebayer I bought some memorabilia off, told me of her friend who ran that cafe and how she ended up with a suitcase full of treasure from Marc & David - but how she fell on hard times and sold the lot for £50 or thereabouts, before Ebay came along. Apparently, they used to ask her opinion on demo's. Would be interesting to hear that woman's story directly.
@mdl3r1
Жыл бұрын
@@cindiaker5778 you're so right, recently realizing that exactly, again. hearing songs albums bring back vivid memories of those time periods..and music so central to life then...wow...
@AnyangU
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant song. David Bowie wrote this but Ian Hunter really brought it to life. It is both real hard and real fun to be young! There was a new generation bringing the news...oh well. Who hasn't wanted to do this for years?
@tomgeiger7058
Жыл бұрын
Bowie gave them song and sang backup vocals. Band was about to breakup and Bowie’s lifeline song saved them.
@calebclunie4001
Жыл бұрын
He could be a hero, if just for one day. 😁
@Straydogger
Жыл бұрын
And the rest, as they say, is history. 👍👍
@aaronarnold7653
Жыл бұрын
HOTT the Moople...Dudes...great song, excellent reaction...
@mikemaricle9941
Жыл бұрын
Who is Mott, and what the hell is a Hoople? ;^}
@richardmyers1506
Жыл бұрын
This group and this song in particular were such a product of it's time. It's dated as can be and yet it's sound still holds true as each generation comes through.
@markburnham7512
Жыл бұрын
Timeless classic here. I always here the chorus of this one in "Sowing the Seeds of Love" by Tears For Fears.
@craigmatthews4289
Жыл бұрын
Good catch. Now that you said that I can hear it too
@sporkfindus4777
Жыл бұрын
Mott the Hoople are from my county of Herefordshire. My dad was best man at one of the members' wedding back in the 70s. All the way from Memphis is another good one by the Hoople. Other notable acts from this county are The Pretenders, Thunderclap Newman, Albert Lee and Ellie Goulding. A guy called Dave Edmunds who was in Rockpile is from Monmouthshire, one of the neighbouring counties, and was a prolific producer of some big names back in the day, including my hero Jeff Beck who we have just tragically lost. I met Dave Edmunds in a pub years ago and the landlord persuaded us to jam together. My claim to fame and a proud moment was when he said "you're quite a good guitar player actually." That's about as good a compliment that you can get from an occasionally waspy 70s guitar virtuoso!
@paulshaw9953
Жыл бұрын
Great song... saw Green Day last year and they closed their set with a cover of it, very unexpected but very welcome
@happymethehappyone8300
Жыл бұрын
I Can't Name A Group/Band I Would Want To Hear Cover It,, EXCEPT Green Day,, I Would Have Loved To Hear That,, Knowing Them,, I'm Sure It Was Epic.
@jeffreyflint6286
Жыл бұрын
A true classic. Great reaction . Back in high school again. Love it.
@deborahcornell171
Жыл бұрын
If you were around in the 70's & into music, this song has been stuck in your head ever since...especially that chorus, which is quite beautiful. 💙☮💙☮💙☮💙☮💙
@tinamakaneole
Жыл бұрын
Yup❤
@scottmorschhauser4421
Жыл бұрын
Bowie wrote it and he's on backup vocals. Great shout out to band T Rex in the lyrics.
@LynnThompsonAuthor
Жыл бұрын
I remember being shocked when I finally saw the lyrics to this song written out and realized they were singing "All the young dudes carry the NEWS" - back in the day, I thought they were saying they carry the "LUDES" - as in Quaaludes, which were a popular drug in the '70s. (I still sing it the way I originally thought it was!) 😄
@thorzzz1z
Жыл бұрын
I miss ludes lol
@samuelgates5935
Жыл бұрын
Ian Hunter he had some good solo stuff too
@RobertJohnson-hq6jq
Жыл бұрын
Once Bitten, Twice Shy
@OronOfMontreal
Жыл бұрын
You can clearly hear David Bowie's voice in the chorus. Terrific song.
@LeftysLefty
Жыл бұрын
Brings me right back. I was a dude. The mid-70s were amazing Plse make sure this gets played at my funeral.
@mikechiarelli6895
7 ай бұрын
This was a huge hit - on the radio all the time - David Bowie wrote it for them. Mitt the Hoople was a headline act for a few years in early seventies & Queen opened for them many times - hopple is mentioned in the Queen song Now I’m Here on their Sheer Heart Attack album. All the Young Dudes was performed by Bowie & Ian Hunter - lead singer on Hoople at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert. Awesome song.
@Jules-um4yy
Жыл бұрын
Haven't heard this old song in a while which was originally written by David Bowie. It has such a classic 70's chill vibe. Love it. Thanks so much guys for reacting to this one!🧡
@bobschenkel7921
Жыл бұрын
Lead Singer and Guitarist Ian Hunter, Guitarist Mick Ralphs (later of Bad Company) and Overend Watts on Bass, were the core of Mott The Hoople. Their first album had a few really cool tunes on it, like "Driving Sister (Rock and Roll)", "All The Way From Memphis", and a song that features a self-described "punch-up sequence" called, not surprisingly, "Violence". All very worthy of a listen.
@bishopswoodcrafts
Жыл бұрын
sorry, but you are incorrect. You are thinking of some sort of compilation album. Mott had 4 albums before All the young Dudes, and the songs you mention were released after All the young dudes was released. Also Buffin the drummer and Verden Allen were instrumental in their early success.
@doreybain
Жыл бұрын
I saw them in concert back in the 1970s. Ian Hunter always wore sunglasses on stage. It was part of his persona. One time, the glasses fell off and the stage lights immediately went completely dark so he could retrieve them without surrendering his look. While he was on his hands and knees still feeling around for the glasses in the dark, the stage lights blasted back on exposing him. He let out a big curse, retrieved his glasses and looked miffed the rest of the concert.
@chrismiddleton4788
Жыл бұрын
Written of course by Dave Bowie
@scotsean
6 ай бұрын
David please 😀
@rghilino6734
Жыл бұрын
Bowie wrote this for Mott after they rejected his offer of Suffragette City. Of course that worked out well for everyone.
@BuddyBoy68
Жыл бұрын
I was looking to see if somebody else said this before I did. Well done, it's you. Æ 👏
@sjw5797
Жыл бұрын
Has a certain warm, melancholy sound and vibe you can only find in music of the seventies.
@surlechapeau
Жыл бұрын
Brad & Lex, you'll love their "All the Way from Memphis" !!
@thunderspike1892
Жыл бұрын
Contraband did a great cover of All The Memphis. Michael Schencker (MSG, Scorpions),Tracii Guns (LA Guns and the original Guns 'n' Roses), Share Pedersen (Vixen), Richard Black (Shark Island) and Bobby Blotzer (Ratt). Kick ass guitars
@andrewkeup9209
Жыл бұрын
They mentioned "T-Rex". You should check them out also.
@Brandi6666
Жыл бұрын
Ian hunter was the shit, way back in the 70’s 🤘🤘🤘❤️
@michaelm6948
Жыл бұрын
Mott the Hoople, one of my favorite bands, growing up in the early/mid 70s. Lead singer Ian Hunter, great guy, salt of the earth. Mott did an anniversary tour of the US back a few years ago. I saw what was left of the band in a small venue in Boston. I had a chance to meet Ian Hunter afterwards. They were very fond of many of the places they played on tour in the US back in the day.
@barriehull7076
Жыл бұрын
Marks & Sparks in the song refers to Marks and Spencer Group plc (commonly abbreviated to M&S and colloquially known as Marks's or Marks & Sparks) its a major British multinational retailer with headquarters in Paddington, London that specialises in selling clothing, beauty, home products and food products.
@tonywilkinson6895
Жыл бұрын
This song and the video has 70’s London written all over it. Thanks for posting!
@simonspeak9288
Жыл бұрын
Have heard this hundreds of times but never saw the video. You’re right; definitely evocative of 70s era London which in my memory is as grey as the vid.
@tonywilkinson6895
Жыл бұрын
@@simonspeak9288 you were not seeing it as i was mate. Sixty’s and seventies London was a riot,where were you!
@lawrenceschabell5740
Жыл бұрын
This song brings back some great memories from that time frame. Thanks David for a awesome song.
@Cosmo-Kramer
Жыл бұрын
All my friends and I growing up in the '70s assumed this was *The Beatles.* That chorus being so reminiscent of, "Hey Jude", is what had us fooled. Last year I saw a list online called, "Top Songs Thought To Be The Beatles But Weren't", and this song was # 1, which didn't surprise me at all. Great, great song. ps~And Lex, even though the song is technically about Bowie's Ziggy Stardust, your interpretation was very good, and I bet shared by a lot of the people at the time.
@traci4187
Жыл бұрын
I've heard this song many times, but this very time I was thinking to myself "This sounds SO much like the Beatles". Funny!
@rocketrabble6737
Жыл бұрын
I would never have associated it with the Beatles; it has David Bowie stamped all over it.
@henrycole7015
Жыл бұрын
The lead singer is Ian Hunter, who had a Solo career in the 70's and beyond. An album i remember my older sister bringing into our home when i was 14 is the 1979 album entitled You're Never Alone With A Schizophrenic. All great songs, it's an album i could still play all the way through and on repeat. Check out Cleveland Rocks or Life After Death or The Bastard.
@john0691
Жыл бұрын
Saw him in concert that year with some opener named John cougar wonder what happened to him.
@MrBizley45
Жыл бұрын
And chicks in striped socks with toes! This band drove our parents NUTS, same for Bowie...Fun track, thanks for playing it.
@DDPYogaBoomer
Жыл бұрын
This was the generational anthem for young dudes who took over the corners in the early 70s from the 1950s-60s Elvis - Beatles crowd . That is what the reference to the stones & beatles is about . They are saying we are the bowie generation .. Lex is right !
@peterramsay4674
Жыл бұрын
Ian was close friends with Peter Frampton and David Bowie and Queen actually opened for Mott the Hoople. The only band they ever did. Great White covered him. He never got that level but he most definitely was as talented.
@clarenceflam
Жыл бұрын
Queen reference Mott the Hoople in their song 'Now Im here;.
@stephen78744
Жыл бұрын
My Great Uncle is aerial Bender luther grovesnor he's my grandma's brother, member of Mott The Hoople. Cheers.
@robinreiley1828
Жыл бұрын
This song is from 'The Endless Party" that was the late 60's , early 70's. There was a feeling that our time as individuals and as the Human Race might end at any moment. At 18 years old Vietnam was this 2 years of Death and Insanity facing every boy. We grew up, with "Nuclear Drills" in grade school, 7-8 year old kids, crouched under our desks, waiting for the Nuclear Bombs to Fall. We partied Hard, believing everyday could be our last. We danced almost every night, drove our cars and rode our motorcycles to the limit. We wanted to squeeze every bit of Life from whatever time we had left and our Music reflected that
@farmerbill6855
Жыл бұрын
More good Mott The Hoople, "All The Way From Memphis" and "Sweet Jane". Then, while you're at it, check out Lou Reed's live version of "Sweet Jane" off of the Rock and Roll Animal album. It rocks.
@atheist666
Жыл бұрын
Because I commented, I just thought I’d take this opportunity to tell you both , you’re the most honest, refreshing and genuine reaction channel I watch. Keep doing what you do. X
@vrvaughn
Жыл бұрын
The lead guitar player was Mick Ralphs who formed Bad Company with Paul Rodgers from Free after he left Mott..
@happymethehappyone8300
Жыл бұрын
The Younger Generation (All The Young Dudes) Bringing The Message Of Making Society/Life Better For The Future Forward..Something That's Sadly/Mostly Been Lost Over The Years.
@calebclunie4001
Жыл бұрын
Mentors, passing the torch. We, always, need that.
@happymethehappyone8300
Жыл бұрын
@@calebclunie4001 100% Agreed,, No Matter How It's Said Or Done,, It Remains Crucially Important.
@erickent3557
Жыл бұрын
Lost? Nah, we just ain't young dudes anymore...
@sjw5797
Жыл бұрын
@@erickent3557 Youth has passion; age has wisdom. Now if only we really got together...
@paulmakowski5612
Жыл бұрын
I’m going through many health issues and have good days and bad days. So when I’m not doing the best i watch you guys and it just makes my day better. Much love and can’t wait to see the baby congrats. I have 2 daughters and 4 grandkids and they are the best and help grandpa all the time.
@IrishKack
Жыл бұрын
I love your reactions. Brad always seems to get the biggest kick out of Lex. Y’all are just such a joy.
@cornovii934
Жыл бұрын
Despite his Cockney Geezer accent Ian Hunter was from rural Shropshire , i met him a few times when he returned home as his favorite Pub was the Station Hotel in Shrewsbury , a proper rough hole at the time .
@clarenceflam
Жыл бұрын
You can hear Bowie on the backing vocals during the chorus, great tune!
@jimmeltonbradley1497
Жыл бұрын
Bowie not only wrote it but also produced this record.
@calebclunie4001
Жыл бұрын
Let's hear it, for the Organ, and Tambourine, and Claps holding this together.
@camvillar8177
Жыл бұрын
I was 11 when I bought this single. It's still one of my favorite songs of all time. Yes it's an anthem to young dudes.
@edsaadi
Жыл бұрын
A certain type of young dude.
@gordonbryan2523
Жыл бұрын
Mott the Hoople's "Roll Away the Stone" and "All the Way From Memphis" just a few of their must listen to songs.
@grimsbyuk8311
Жыл бұрын
What a slice of the early 70's this was in the UK. I've no idea if it was big in the US, but it was massive in the UK. Played everywhere in summer 1972, I particularly remember it being blasted out at travelling fairs and the seaside amusement arcades. Reminds me of wearing Ben Sherman style shirts (cheap copies with penny round collars from Boyes in Grimsby, because we couldn't afford the real thing), green Levis Sta-Prest trousers, brown loafer shoes, with bright green socks. I really thought I was a "Young Dude", I wish I'd got a photograph of myself. That video they were watching reminded me of going to the football match with a Grimsby Town silk scarf tied round my wrist. I never tire of hearing that song.
@1BobsYourUncle
Жыл бұрын
I lived in Bedford when this came out, it was played a lot. I think I might have heard Tony Blackburn even play it.
@jlb6
Жыл бұрын
The guitarist went on to,form Bad Company with Paul Rogers from Free. The singer Ian Hunter collaborated with Mick Ronson (Bowie guitar player and arranger) for anther great record.
@bishopswoodcrafts
Жыл бұрын
Ian Hunter is recognised in the music industry as one of the greatest singer songwriters of all time. He still tours on a regular basis and has penned over 20 albums since leaving Mott. The last 5 albums written since 2010 were all awarded 5 stars in the music papers, as being in the top 10 albums of the year. A true music legend.
@brian-southampton
Жыл бұрын
Mott used to play Wolverhampton Civic Hall regularly. I can’t remember exactly which year but it was about 1974 I saw them. There was an unheard of band supporting them who were fantastic. I remember having breakfast with my dad the next morning and he asked me how the gig went last night. I told him how good Mott were but I said I’d just seen a band that were going to be massive. Two weeks later they made their first appearance on TV on Top of the Pops………..it was Queen singing Seven Seas of Rye.
@kennethballard755
Жыл бұрын
FMG. I was there in 1974 when Queen opened for Mott.
@HemlockRidge
Жыл бұрын
One of the bands representing the height of Glam Rock. Along with T-Rex, Alice Cooper, David Bowie (who wrote this song), The New York Dolls, Roxy Music, etc.
@ManUtdMrs
Жыл бұрын
Absolute iconic song for kids of my generation x
@stevemahoney1733
Жыл бұрын
Ian Hunter is the man. Anyone remember The Drew Carey show? Ian Hunter soundtrack......'Cleveland Rocks'!
@Topshaman-pk2rx
Жыл бұрын
Mott are one of my favourite groups. I saw them live in 1974. Ian Hunter is the classic frontman and the author of the Diary of a Rock and Roll Star. As others have said, this song was written for Mott by Bowie because they needed a hit. But they have plenty of great tracks of their own. Check out Roll Away The Stone.
@eximusic
Жыл бұрын
Oh man, I need TV when I got T Rex. Best rock lyric line ever.
@thunderspike1892
Жыл бұрын
Bowie later offered them the song Drive In Saturday. They turned it down. He recorded it on the Aladdin Sane album. On a storytellers show he told the audience that he got so drunk and annoyed about the rejection that he shaved of his eyebrows one night at a hotel
@calebclunie4001
Жыл бұрын
Drive In Saturday Such a D.I.S.
@mmmcomfy
Жыл бұрын
@Geo Dio lol. That's what HE said.
@bishopswoodcrafts
Жыл бұрын
By 1973 they were huge themselves and Ian Hunter was a great songwriter so didn't need it
@chitownlee
Жыл бұрын
Written by David Bowie.
@russwalker3119
Жыл бұрын
sounds like a Bowie song, I can feel his influence in it. It is a good song
@nancystanton955
Жыл бұрын
My favorite band!! In my opinion their bass player Overend "Pete" Watts was one of the best. He filled just enough and didn't drown out the rest. Sadly he and Buffin the drummer are both gone now , Pete to cancer and Buffin to Parkinson's or dementia, I can't quite remember. Their lead guitarist, Mick Ralph's went on help form Bad Company, another great 70s band. To be honest the only one of the band I couldn't stand was Ian Hunter the lead singer (the guy with the shades). I saw them in New York in 1974 at the Uris Theater. Absolutely loved the concert! An interesting fact, their opening band at that show was... Queen! Yes, that Queen, Freddie Mercury Queen.
@scottmacdonald1826
Жыл бұрын
Even though I heard this one first, I still, in my mind, insert the iconic "Pat" from David Live.
@williambowers2820
Жыл бұрын
One of the best bands of the early-mid 70’s.
@mtzoar
Жыл бұрын
I am old. I have heard many songs.This is one of my favorites.
@dougsusie2319
Жыл бұрын
Great song, haven't heard this one in probably 40 years.
@peterbruhn6514
Жыл бұрын
Maybe already mentioned, but Ian Hunter wrote "Ships" (We're two ships that pass in the night...) covered and made famous by Barry Manilow.
@doubler8684
Жыл бұрын
Shades of Ian Hunter (the singer) was one of my favorite albums in high school. Standin' In My Light, When the Daylight Comes, Lisa Likes Rock and Roll and a few others bring back a lot of memories.
@wendelldolittle5063
Жыл бұрын
Everyone should listen to the song “Dandy” that Ian wrote and released after David passed. They were great friends and were cut from the same cloth.
@markroyle5625
Жыл бұрын
Queen were their support act on a USA tour (though Queen went home early because Brian May was ill)
@ianmoffat4460
Жыл бұрын
Written by David Bowie. He actually did his own video of this. Try Python Lee Jackson too., " In a broken dream". The singer in this was Rod Stewart.
@johnanderson8096
Жыл бұрын
Thank You for taking me Back... Decades since I heard that... Love your Reactions.... Love even More.... The So Obvious Love Affair You Two Beautiful People are Having... Soul Mates... X 1000!!! Love to see it... Happy New Year.... ✌✌✌🌍🌎🌏✌✌✌
@stevensprunger3422
Жыл бұрын
I remember when this came out it only played on progressive FM stations over the air
@moraysimpson2710
Жыл бұрын
This song was on every jukebox even up to the late eighties. Lots of memories listening to this in my local pub, whilst drinking underage!
@wpawson
Жыл бұрын
When I was a kid I was a paperboy carrying the news ha ha.
@alanoakley3242
Жыл бұрын
The song in this form breached BBC advertising legislation because of the line about stealing clothes from Marks & Sparks, which was an affectionate British colloquialism for long-established retail entity Marks & Spencer. The pirate radio commercial TV stations could play it but for BBC radio and TV the offending line was changed to "Wendy's stealing clothes from unlocked cars."
@rocketrabble6737
Жыл бұрын
The band came from Herefordshire (West of England); it's not an area I normally associate with rock music; I certainly can't think of any other bands from there; I bet I'm wrong though!
@barbaradee5191
Жыл бұрын
I saw Mott Live and Queen was the opening act
@777petew
Жыл бұрын
You won't understand unless you were a teenager at the time in 1972. Great times.
@christinebakewell3475
Жыл бұрын
Luv the girls in the video with the slade socks ( long rainbow coloured woolen socks made popular by the band - slade- who were massive in the UK at that time , worth checking out ? ) mott only had 3 uk hits - this one was written by Bowie for them ( he was an admirer and friend) 😂.
@roydavis5222
Жыл бұрын
I saw Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson open for Heart in 1982.
@geoffn54
Жыл бұрын
This is a Bowie song. You can even hear him singing it - the phrasing - when it's clearly someone else's voice
@jasonking2976
Жыл бұрын
This was an outake from the Ziggy Stardust album that Bowie gave to MTH. The Bowie version is available.
@tedketterer600
3 ай бұрын
Guitarist in Mott, Mick Ralphs, went on to form bad Company
@chrishall5141
Жыл бұрын
Very cool band. David Bowie loved them, and the singer is named Ian Hunter. He sang, “once bitten twice shy” originally. Great white covered it later. Back to David Bowie, did you know that he wrote this song and gave it to them? The guitar player from this band was later the guitar player for bad company. Lots of history with this band!!! By the way, I was the tour manager for bad company. “Cleveland rocks” was the theme song for the Drew Carey show and they wrote that too. You should check out their songs Sweet Jane, which was redone by Lou Reed, and ready for love, which was redone by Bad Company later.
@michaelm6948
Жыл бұрын
Lou Reed wrote Sweet Jane and recorded it with the Velvet Underground in 69. It's on the VU's Loaded album. Back in the 90s Lou Reed's full, longer version of the song, as he intended it, was finally released on a reissue of Loaded.
@billc.5861
Жыл бұрын
British/ London slang for the times & future Another good song “All the way to Memphis” Brings me back to high school when I was trying to be cool and find different music in the SF Bay Area record stores Just made me semi cool. Lol. Thanks.
@joedonlewis9820
Жыл бұрын
My friend Ronnie had a Mott album. As I recall the whole thing was pretty good.
@unichusettsofmassadversity9705
Жыл бұрын
She's right, again. A generation's anthem.
@johncagnettajr344
Жыл бұрын
Bowie intended this song for his The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars concept album. The, "All the young dudes carry the news" line refers to part of Bowie's story where there is no electricity, and Ziggy Stardust uses songs to spread the news. Said Bowie: "'All the Young Dudes' is a song about this news. It's not a hymn to the youth, as people thought. It is completely the opposite."
@stuartgross5728
Жыл бұрын
Guys, listen to Ian Hunter's (the lead singer from Mott the hoople) song, Cleveland Rocks. Find a live version. Real fun song and good.
@mikemiller3069
Жыл бұрын
The funny thing is that the word, "dude" wasn't used that much at that time. It's a very common word now and was a word but not used much.
@gcarap
Жыл бұрын
Did you catch David Bowie on background vocals? Bowie wrote and produced this song, and if you close your eyes, even the lead singer has Bowie tones in certain parts.
@mgreenwa
Жыл бұрын
Before I knew this was The Hoople I just assumed it was Bowie since it sounded so much like a Bowie song (and I wouldn't have been surprised if he just had a guest-vocalist sing lead).
@markh2200
Жыл бұрын
Bowie also did it- and, this was written by David Bowie. An interesting read on Wikipedia
@donmurray3638
Жыл бұрын
According to Bowie the dudes were akl carrying the news (from Ziggy Stardust's song Five Years ) that Earth had only five years to live.
@wesalker3479
Жыл бұрын
Back in the day . . . lot's of people thought that this was the Beatles. Very similar.
@ronaldelliott4373
Жыл бұрын
“Carry the news” refers to what’s about to be trending or in fashion before it hits the masses. Saw Mott back in the day. Guitarist Mick Ralphs went on to form Bad Co. with Paul Rogers, Simon Kirk and Boz Burrell. A hit machine on the Zeppelin label. Good times in the Classic Era. Nothing comes close. 🤘
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