5/31/2017

Ziggy was in a rock & roll band and the kids no longer want rock & roll




Burroughs: Could you explain this Ziggy Stardust image of yours? From what I can see it has to do with the world being on the eve of destruction within five years.
Bowie: The time is five years to go before the end of the earth. It has been announced that the world will end because of lack of natural resources. Ziggy is in a position where all the kids have access to things that they thought they wanted. The older people have lost all touch with reality and the kids are left on their own to plunder anything. Ziggy was in a rock & roll band and the kids no longer want rock & roll. There's no electricity to play it. Ziggy's adviser tells him to collect news and sing it, 'cause there is no news. So Ziggy does this and there is terrible news. "All the Young Dudes" is a song about this news. It is no hymn to the youth as people thought. It is completely the opposite.

February 28th, 1974 issue of Rolling Stone




But this version of events somewhat contradicts other stories Bowie had told about “All the Young Dudes”; specifically, instances in which he talked about the song’s connection to the epic he was envisioning for his next record, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. “All the Young Dudes” was apparently written about Ziggy and the events that take place in the concept album.
“Ziggy was in a rock ‘n’ roll band, and the kids no longer want rock ‘n’ roll,” Bowie explained to Rolling Stone in 1974. “There’s no electricity to play it. Ziggy’s adviser tells him to collect news and sing it, ’cause there is no news. So Ziggy does this, and there is terrible news. ‘All the Young Dudes’ is a song about this news. It is no hymn to the youth as people thought. It is completely the opposite.”


Read More: 45 Years Ago: The Tangled Web of David Bowie, Mott the Hoople and ‘All the Young Dudes’ | http://ultimateclassicrock.com/mott-the-hoople-all-the-young-dudes-story/?trackback=tsmclip
But this version of events somewhat contradicts other stories Bowie had told about “All the Young Dudes”; specifically, instances in which he talked about the song’s connection to the epic he was envisioning for his next record, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. “All the Young Dudes” was apparently written about Ziggy and the events that take place in the concept album.
“Ziggy was in a rock ‘n’ roll band, and the kids no longer want rock ‘n’ roll,” Bowie explained to Rolling Stone in 1974. “There’s no electricity to play it. Ziggy’s adviser tells him to collect news and sing it, ’cause there is no news. So Ziggy does this, and there is terrible news. ‘All the Young Dudes’ is a song about this news. It is no hymn to the youth as people thought. It is completely the opposite.”


Read More: 45 Years Ago: The Tangled Web of David Bowie, Mott the Hoople and ‘All the Young Dudes’ | http://ultimateclassicrock.com/mott-the-hoople-all-the-young-dudes-story/?trackback=tsmclip
But this version of events somewhat contradicts other stories Bowie had told about “All the Young Dudes”; specifically, instances in which he talked about the song’s connection to the epic he was envisioning for his next record, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. “All the Young Dudes” was apparently written about Ziggy and the events that take place in the concept album.
“Ziggy was in a rock ‘n’ roll band, and the kids no longer want rock ‘n’ roll,” Bowie explained to Rolling Stone in 1974. “There’s no electricity to play it. Ziggy’s adviser tells him to collect news and sing it, ’cause there is no news. So Ziggy does this, and there is terrible news. ‘All the Young Dudes’ is a song about this news. It is no hymn to the youth as people thought. It is completely the opposite.”


Read More: 45 Years Ago: The Tangled Web of David Bowie, Mott the Hoople and ‘All the Young Dudes’ | http://ultimateclassicrock.com/mott-the-hoople-all-the-young-dudes-story/?trackback=tsmclip
But this version of events somewhat contradicts other stories Bowie had told about “All the Young Dudes”; specifically, instances in which he talked about the song’s connection to the epic he was envisioning for his next record, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. “All the Young Dudes” was apparently written about Ziggy and the events that take place in the concept album.
“Ziggy was in a rock ‘n’ roll band, and the kids no longer want rock ‘n’ roll,” Bowie explained to Rolling Stone in 1974. “There’s no electricity to play it. Ziggy’s adviser tells him to collect news and sing it, ’cause there is no news. So Ziggy does this, and there is terrible news. ‘All the Young Dudes’ is a song about this news. It is no hymn to the youth as people thought. It is completely the opposite.”


Read More: 45 Years Ago: The Tangled Web of David Bowie, Mott the Hoople and ‘All the Young Dudes’ | http://ultimateclassicrock.com/mott-the-hoople-all-the-young-dudes-story/?trackback=tsmclip
But this version of events somewhat contradicts other stories Bowie had told about “All the Young Dudes”; specifically, instances in which he talked about the song’s connection to the epic he was envisioning for his next record, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. “All the Young Dudes” was apparently written about Ziggy and the events that take place in the concept album.
“Ziggy was in a rock ‘n’ roll band, and the kids no longer want rock ‘n’ roll,” Bowie explained to Rolling Stone in 1974. “There’s no electricity to play it. Ziggy’s adviser tells him to collect news and sing it, ’cause there is no news. So Ziggy does this, and there is terrible news. ‘All the Young Dudes’ is a song about this news. It is no hymn to the youth as people thought. It is completely the opposite.”


Read More: 45 Years Ago: The Tangled Web of David Bowie, Mott the Hoople and ‘All the Young Dudes’ | http://ultimateclassicrock.com/mott-the-hoople-all-the-young-dudes-story/?trackback=tsmclip

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