{"id":481338,"date":"2019-01-25T08:03:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T15:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=784176"},"modified":"2019-01-25T08:03:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T15:03:16","slug":"flashback-mott-the-hoople-play-a-glitzy-all-the-young-dudes-in-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/flashback-mott-the-hoople-play-a-glitzy-all-the-young-dudes-in-1973\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Mott the Hoople Play a Glitzy \u201cAll the Young Dudes\u201d in 1973"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mott the Hoople<\/a> were on the verge of disbanding in the spring of 1972 when David Bowie<\/a> offered to lend them a hand. He sent them a demo of his new song \u201cSuffragette City\u201d for them to record, but they politely declined. Bowie then visited them in person and played \u201cAll the Young Dudes,\u201d a song he had written specifically for them. \u201cHe\u2019s strumming it on his guitar and I\u2019m thinking, he wants to give us that? He must be crazy!\u201d recalled late drummer Dale Griffin. \u201cYou couldn\u2019t fail to see it was a great song.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the Young Dudes\u201d became a massive hit for Mott the Hoople. It also became a glam-rock anthem, with lyrics that were perceived to be about bisexuality. (\u201cNow Lucy looks sweet \u2019cause he dresses like a queen\/But he can kick like a mule, it\u2019s a real mean team.\u201d) Bowie negated this notion two years later, in a 1974 conversation with beat writer William S. Burroughs for Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>, when he insisted the song was tied to \u201cFive Years\u201d from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars<\/a><\/em>. \u201cZiggy\u2019s adviser tells him to collect news and sing it, \u2019cause there is no news,\u201d he explained. \u201cSo Ziggy does this and there is terrible news. \u2018All the Young Dudes\u2019 is a song about this news. It is no hymn to the youth as people thought. It is completely the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here you can watch Mott the Hoople performing the song in L.A. in 1973. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to be back in Los Angeles,\u201d frontman Ian Hunter says while tuning his guitar. \u201cActually we don\u2019t mean it at all, it\u2019s a drag to be back.\u201d The band is in full glam attire, with Hunter in a ruffled white shirt and bassist Pete Overland Watt in white thigh-high platform boots. Guitarist Ariel Bender, who had just joined the band, takes the song\u2019s signature riff to new heights.<\/p>\n

Though \u201cAll the Young Dudes\u201d saved Mott the Hoople\u2019s career, it also prevented them from being known for anything else. \u201cYou can say it might have had an adverse effect on the band\u2019s image,\u201d said Hunter. \u201cBut without it there wouldn\u2019t have been a band: simple as that.\u201d<\/p>\n

This April, Mott the Hoople will tour America<\/a> for the first time in 45 years. Returning to the band are Bender \u2014 who hasn\u2019t toured with Mott since 1974 \u2014 and keyboardist Morgan Fisher.<\/p>\n

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Mott the Hoople were on the verge of disbanding in the spring of 1972 when David Bowie offered to lend them a hand. He sent them a demo of his new song \u201cSuffragette City\u201d for them to record, but they politely declined. Bowie then visited them in person and played \u201cAll the Young Dudes,\u201d a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 02:30:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}