“Hunky Dory” is the fourth album from Bowie, but the first that was released under RCA records which he stuck with for over a decade. Bowie arrived at the cover shoot for the album with photographs of Marlene Dietrich who was a perfect metaphor for the music the album presented. It was a perfect representation of the album’s blend of gay cap, flashy rock guitar and saloon-piano balladry. Contrastingly he tributed Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol. On “Life on Mars?” he sings to all the weirdos like himself. It became a sort of revolution because an entire army of kids and artits would try to recreate his image.
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